(Courier, 1995-2013). 1973: In Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court declares that the Constitution protects women's right to terminate an early pregnancy, thus making abortion legal. (Courier, 1995-2013). In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a major role model for all women, began her fight for women’s
Australia is the nation built on the principles of freedom and equality for everybody, but this is not true for Aboriginal people – the first owners of this land. From 1909 to 1969, the Australian government implemented the policy that forced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to leave their parents’ arms in order to assimilate these children and declared that they were adequately protected and given a better life (Reconciliaction, 2007). The statistics of the Bringing Them Home report suggests that there were about one-tenth and one-third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children taken away from their families (Bringing Them Home, 1997, p. 31). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children separated from their families were called the “stolen generations” (Australia Human Rights Commission, 2012). These children had to live in poor conditions, poor quality and received a strange
Johnson appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court. Robert Justin Goldstein wrote a 272-page book on this issue examining this milestone case in America’s history, Flag Burning & Free Speech: The Case of Texas v. Johnson. The book was published in November 2000. He depicts both sides of the intense case with true trial evidence. His thesis throughout the book: “Is burning the American flag as an act of protest protected by the First Amendment’s Freedom of Speech.” Goldstein takes us from the 1989 incident that ignited the national controversy back to the origins of the flag as a symbol of America’s liberty and democracy.
The Whitlam government purchased the land on behalf of the Gurindji people. And on 26 August 1975, after a short speech PM Whitlam poured some sand into the hands of Vincent Lingiari, the representative of the Gurindji movement. This act as seen in the source symbolically represent a similar act in 1834. When John Batman, the founder of Melbourne claimed the land as an aboriginal elder poured sand from his hand into Batman’s
Luke is a Vietnam veteran who has survived the war but is having trouble surviving the peace on a reservation where everyone is broke and where the tribal government seems to work against the interests of the reservation folk. One poem, specifically “1854-1988,” talks about the time when the Chippewa tribe leaders betrayed the tribe by selling their land. As mentioned previously, 1854 was the year that the LaPointe Treaty was signed and the Chippewa indians were forced onto reservation. The feeling of being forced away from home and everything familiar is unimaginable. On top of that, being betrayed by
One hundred years ago the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed, heralding in a supposedly new era of prosperity for the "lucky country" and its inhabitants. For Aborigines, however, 1901 marked year 113 of resistance to dispossession and racial oppression. One hundred years later, indigenous Australia continues this fight. The modern movement for indigenous rights began in the 1920s when the first Aboriginal political organisations were formed including the Australian Aborigines Protection Association, the Association for the Protection of the Native Races of Australia and Polynesia and the Aboriginal Union. The following decades saw the formation of probably the two best known of all the early groups, the Australian Aborigines League
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The whole process of ‘negotiating’ with Aboriginal ‘representatives’ and passage of the Native Title Act 1993 was orchestrated by an ALP Federal Government that had come to power in 1983 making grand promises of ‘national, uniform, Land Rights legislation’. As Roberts noted, ‘The land rights movement, however, received a major setback when the Hawke Labor government withdrew its proposed national land rights legislation in 1986’. Around the same time the Report of the Committee of Review of Aboriginal Employment and Training Programs (the Miller Report) said that 71 per cent of national Aboriginal income was being provided by the government, whilst only 16 per cent of government funding was being spent on economic development. The Miller Report said
Introduction A little over a decade on from the monumental Bringing Them Home (HREOC, 1997) report recommending an apology, the Australian Labor Government, headed by Kevin Rudd, apologised to the Stolen Generations on behalf of all Australians. The 13th of February 2008 was a day of reflection for the nation as Rudd lamented past government policies legitimising the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families during the early to mid twentieth-century (Rudd, 2008). Rudd’s pledge to move “forward with confidence to the future,” and to instigate the “healing of the nation,” (Rudd, 2008, pp.167) was well received by many Australians as a first step towards reconciliation and tackling important issues pertinent
English II 11 January 2009 Twelve Angry Men 1994 was the year with severable notable moments. However there was one event in particular that made every American question the effectiveness and authenticity of the American legal system, the case of OJ Simpson. This case brings new meaning to the word justice. There are always two sides to every story. OJ claimed his innocence, while the mourning family of Nicole Brown Simpson fought for justice in the memory of their deceased loved one.