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. This epiplexis also rebukes the ban and implies that symbols of belonging are an integral part of our
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
“Sorry…mate?” As a bystander, it is outrageous to see how much effort the Australian government is putting into Aboriginal affairs even after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s public apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008. It was necessary for the Australian government to acknowledge their past wrong-doings and apologise for the generation of stolen children whose families had been forcefully torn apart. Thinking back, this bleak moment in the Australian history was the result of an official government policy from 1909 to 1969 which allowed authorities such as the Aborigines Protection Board (APB) to remove children of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds from their birth families. They were to be fostered or adopted into another
Whitlam was ineffective at understanding Sir John and gravely misread him, Whitlam expected Kerr to enforce his, and only his, judgements, as is the political convention in Australia. When questioned about his relationship with Sir John, he stated “[The Governor General must] unquestionably only act on the advice of the Prime Minister”. The Governor General has the power under the constitution to ignore the advice of the Prime Minister but it was convention that he followed it, and this convention had not been broken since federation. Another aspect of Kerr’s power that Whitlam overlooked was his ability to appoint and dismiss members of the government (section 64) and particularly his readiness to use this power. The convention here was not to invoke this power but Kerr broke the convention on the 11 November 1975, dismissing Gough and ending the Constitutional crisis
Firstly the penalties imposed on Loveridge from his original sentencing highlights the ineffectiveness in protecting the rights of the victims especially the deceased. The law failed Thomas Kelly and his family, as Loveridge’s original sentencing meant that Loveridge could be out of jail after serving for years for taking Thomas’s life. His family stated that the original sentencing favoured the accused stating that Thomas’s life was considered ‘meaningless’ to the state as a sentencing of four years was “a joke”. Due to the Australian public outcry and response from Thomas’s family it lead to the case being appealed by the DPP. This was necessary because the sentence was so inadequate that it needed to be changed for Thomas and his family in order to achieve justice as well as to deter acts of alcohol fuelled violence by emphasising to society that this behaviour is no longer acceptable.
In conclusion the High Court established that native title should be wiped out from pastoral leases. In order to do so the governments referred to the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth) and the Racial Discrimination Act to determine the outcome. Within the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 there was a 10 point claim which was campaigned against by the National Indigenous Working Groups. As a result to this campaign and support from the broader communities within Australia amendments were made within the Native Title Act to ensure justice and fairness was demonstrated towards Indigenous
Aborigines could choose to stay where they were and fight the settlers, though soon it was obvious that spears were no match for the guns that had been brought over. The second option was to leave and risk encroaching on the land of other tribes and start fights. The final option was to stay and try to forget their Aboriginal ways and live alongside the British as one of them. Michael Connor mentions in his book "The invention of Terra Nullius" that Terra Nullius is in fact wrong and there never was the use of it when the British landed in Australia. Connor is very smug about his views of Terra Nullius and he believes there are mistakes that have been made throughout history that many historians are not aware of or choose to ignore.
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.
We, the imprisoned asylum seekers of Australia, respectfully appeal to the people of the world to hear our story, understand our plight and emanate to our assistance. We left our homes because we had no choice but to flee from brutal, dictatorial regimes and deprived human rights. We believed we would receive a fair hearing in Australia, but our pleas of asylum have been unjustly refused. We have been detained in detention for a very long time, many of us for more than three years and our situations show no sign of changing. The only solution we are offered by the Australian government is to return to the persecution we once fled.
The written record suggests that the three alleged criminals were judged in the same legal manner, at least initially. The history of Native Americans is a history of tears, killed by white men without mercy and pushed onto reservations where they were forced to make treaties which the US government violated again and again. The experiences of the Native Americans were a terrible ordeal. As long as the Constitution and its amendments are in control, the US government must ensure that this type of thing will never happen