Terra Nullius Terra Nullius, taken from the Latin words Terra; meaning land and Nullius; meaning empty. The concept of Terra Nullius came largely into use during the Mabo case. The words were used by the British when they landed in Australia in the 17th century. The British believed that the land of Australia was not being 'improved' by the Aboriginals therefore they could take claim to it over the Aboriginals as they would be using the land properly. In the text 'Imaging Australia' by Mirams, Davidson and Gordon it is stated that terra Nullius means a "territory that is not inhabited" to the British this meant that because the local Aboriginals here were not making any use of the land there was no need for them to either buy, lease or
Was the Melbourne Desalination plant a waste of the Australian Governments money considering all other resources available? So some of you may be wondering, what even is a desalination plant? To put it simply, desalination essentially turns sea water into fresh drinking water. Many countries are using desalination as a way of creating a more reliable water supply that doesn’t depend on rain. The construction of the desalination plant is flawed firstly as it is on the beautiful coastline in Wonthaggi in south eastern Victoria and it is frightening to think of what is currently in place, but above all it is not needed.
1) Thackrah & Scott (2011) in the above readings, identify Australia’s shared history of colonisation with New Zealand and Canada. There is however one important ‘event’ in Australia’s history not present in either NZ or Canada which has had a profound effect on successive Australian governments’ development of policies and practices around the health and well being of Indigenous Australians. Identify this ‘event’ and at least two (2) health impacts. Australia was made up of colonial settler societies, which means Australia was made up of different background people sharing different culture and tradition. As we can still find in the present that these three countries Australia, Canada and New Zealand has somehow similar type of constitutional
In the 1800 a lots of countries explored the world in a race who could find new lands first and settle, but as the race went on, they countries didn´t gave the aboriginals a chance, the took theme as slaves, killed them if they didn´t obey the white man´s word, but is this okay? A normal civilized man today would says that it´s not, but still the Australians celebrates Australian day as a national day, when in fact this day for nearly 100 years ago there was a massacre on the people how are the rightful owner of the country, that the white people came and “discovered”. Through an analyse of to text how has different opinion about the subject, I will try to understand this subject better. The first text called “the white man´s burden” is
These statements are clearly not true as expressed in the quote from the book, Fatal shore by Robert Hughes ‘fake-egalitarian cruelty that is still one of the bad dreams of Australian life’. These statements by Mr. Smith show either a clear misunderstanding or clear ignorance of early Australian colonial history. In the early colonial times of Australian history, Australia was used mainly by its mother nation Britain in the late 1780’s to the mid 1850’s as remote foreign prison ‘It was Australia their new vast, lonely possession…. From there convicts would never return’ (Fatal Shore). It was a prison for the convicts, it was to ‘get rid of, or at least greatly reduce, crime in Great Britain’, Australia was home of the convict class of Britain, it was the “bottom” class.
Australians were making it very clear that they wanted to defend their colonies as a place for only white people. By the year 1890, all colonies of Australia had its own anti Chinese law in place to try to reduce the number of Chinese immigrants in Australia. In the decade of public debate leading up to Federation in 1901, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were not included in any of the conventions and consultations, and they were largely ignored. After federation aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders were excluded from Australian society generally, and from the rights, responsibilities and benefits which other Australian citizens enjoyed. Not only did this effect on the lives of aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, it affected all non-European cultures in Australia.
These support the notion that interconnectedness is a fundamental aspect to our lives. Colin Long’s article ‘The Myth Of Belonging Masks Our Insecurity’ explores the dynamic, fluctuating nature of belonging in today’s society, referring to the banning of the Australian flag during the ‘Big Day Out’ festival. The writer opens with vernacular language and low modality, e.g. “perhaps as a sign”, “I wondered why…” to create a conversational tone, engaging the reader and personalizing the discussion. The first paragraph concludes with “how dare anyone ban the carrying of the Australian national flag – especially on Australia Day?” The indignant tone highlight its irony, since that is exactly what had happened.
ANZAC The Unauthorised Biography Anzac The Unauthorised Biography sheds light on the history surrounding the Anzac legend, with the moving away of the British Empire, to display of nationalism and ideals on the battlefield of Gallipoli. It then shows the other side with the decline of the Anzac legend, but also the political turmoil with the rise of left wing politics of Marxism and communism and the protesting of the Vietnam War. Holbrook states that many Australians believe that their nation was born on April 25 1915 on the beaches of Gallipoli instead of in Melbourne, Australia on January 1 1901. However, the Anzac Legend declined in prestige only to be revived once more. Australians have often sought recognition in war, where as our British counterparts merely tried to compare Gallipoli to Waterloo.
In the past few years there’s been a lot of controversy over whether or not modern day Australians should apologize for the past events of the stolen generation. This essay will support the statement made by John Howard which was “Modern Australians shouldn't be required to accept guilt and blame for past action.” The reasons we shouldn't have to accept guilt and blame for past actions are , we are not responsible for past actions, we directly had nothing to do with it, we are new Australians, and we have made up for our wrong by granting them their rights. The first reason as to why we should not have to apologize to the aboriginals is because we are not responsible for past action. The actions of past Australians towards the aboriginals
The Australian defense forces combined with American defense forces would easily be enough for us to no longer rely on Britan assistance. Moreover the last time the queen even bothered to visit Australia was the Commonwealth games in 2006 after the prior visit in 2002 held after the referendum to decide whether a republic was wanted in Australia. This referendum was lost by a mere 8%. One would only assume that after the recent royal wedding disgrace, the amount of Australians wanting a republic would be far