Assessment Task 2 TITLE A critical analysis of “Contemporary Racism in Australia: The Experiences of Aborigines” INTRODUCTION This assessment was based on David Mellor’s report “Contemporary Racism in Australia: The Experiences of Aborigines. David’s report shows that in recent years contemporary racism still as a serious problem than it had been in last several years and also gives a research about this phenomenon.…
Australia is a relatively young country compared to the rest of the world and places such as Europe. Before the First World War Australia struggled to give itself a lasting identity, the war united the Australian people together for the first time as a nation, and created the ANZAC legacy' and the Australian way we know today. The years surrounding World War One helped build our identity, and David Malouf expresses this issue in the novella Fly Away Peter.…
Discuss: “Despite the unifying results of WWI in relation to its identity, the overall result was a divided society.”…
Her childhood was filled with memories such as "[camping] out often". In page 9 and 10 Ellie compares her life to her friend Fiona's saying; "unlike us rurals, she [lives] in town and spends more time playing piano then drenching sheep or marking lambs". Ellie is a genuine rural. Throughout the book Ellie also exhibits another element of Australian Identity, a fighting spirit. Many times she is pushed to the limits and comes up with brilliant plans and keeps going in desperate and tough times whcih ensure her friends and her own survival, for example the time when Ellie bravely stepped into the light of the car park to see what was going o ndown at the show…
What does it mean to be Australian? In Australian media, an Aussie is typically portrayed as a Caucasian, larger-than-life, masculine male who hunts crocodiles for a living and lives in the bush; the vast, yet stunning landscape that occupies over 70% of the country (Alice Springs Desert Park). This is how Australians want their country to viewed in the national spotlight, but the problem is, it is not at all realistic. Australia is becoming a very multicultural country, with the percentage of residents born over seas approaching nearly 25% (Khoo 2012), and the indigenous population nearing 550,000; a number that only represents the people who choose to identify as indigenous (Khoo 2012). The Caucasian male is quickly diminishing as a representation…
The Australian experience cannot be simplified to only a few stereotypes. The country offers so much diversity and so many experiences from all different people. The Australian experience presents many journeys and so many different stories including ‘William Street’ by Kenneth Slessor where he describes the different landscapes and objects you can find in Australia, Kath Walkers poem ‘We are Going’ where the passion and pride for the country is shown by fighting for the Aboriginals right. Lastly the documentary ‘Life in Australia – Sydney and Wagga Wagga’ which shows that not the whole of Australia is the exact same and that there is a different range of things that could see when visiting. ‘William Street’ encourages responders to see that…
Australians for the last couple of years have been priding them selves on how multicultural we are as a nation and even though that is true with reports finding only 1 in 4 people in Australia are born in Australia. But Australia is still seen as one of the most racist countries in history and still show signs of its past in the present day. Many of my classmates tutorials shared the light on the racism on the racism taking fold 20 or 30 years ago but little talked about the problems facing our present society.…
Celebrating "exoticism", of course, is not the preoccupation of this project. It's really about "us" in the universal sense: capturing an Australian-ness that is rarely reflected on TV or radio but you'll spot on the train, at schools or next door. Today, according to the 2006 census, one in 30 Australians has Chinese ancestry. And more than 1.6million declared that they had Asian ancestry.…
In today’s society, racism is currently being reported on SBS, which has critically impacted on healthy delivery and cultural realities in work practice. Racism is the prejudicial discrimination against any member of a particular race, founded on the belief one’s personal race is superior. Racism can be distinguished through culture in work practices, communication in the workplace between clients and health care workers, cultural safety in workplace and professional relationships, and partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. Therefore, it is important to understand their health delivery and cultural realities in work practice.…
sixth largest country by total area. The country is made up of the Australian continent,…
The problem. We’ve all come across it, we’ve all heard about it, we’ve all talked about changing it for the better. Racism. It is known that forty per cent of Australia’s population are immigrants from around two hundred different countries. On the ‘Come to Australia’ website, a website designed to encourage immigrants, it claims that “Australians’ value the wealth of cultural diversity and the social sophistication that international immigrants bring to our communities.” However, I have seen otherwise and this type of discrimination in such a ‘tolerant’ society is unacceptable.…
Australia’s history has been define by conflict, human rights violations, economic growth and the hardship associated with establishing a refined society in a harsh and primitive landscape. One aspect of Australian Identity that is continually misrepresented to the rest of the world is the stereotypical image of the tanned, blonde, athletic, easy going, slow talking Aussie. It is true that our climate and geography enable Australians to spend leisure time at the beach or outdoors. It is also true that Australians tend to love sport. The true Australian identity, however, is linked to opportunity and the hope of a better life. It would be too simplistic to claim that the true Australian identity could be defined effectively by examining the Indigenous communities that existed prior to the British colonization of Australia. It would also be unrealistic to just focus on the British colonies that developed from convict settlements to towns that attracted free settlers seeking a better life from what Britain and Europe offered. Perhaps the only idea that we can retain from these early times is the concept of seeking a better life and this is a common aspect of Australian identity that resonates with all who have come to Australia.…
Australia and the people who live here have developed over time an identity of an egalitarian or fair nation. This perception by other countries and by Australian residents as a land of opportunity and a country who supports the culture of a "Fair Go" for everyone dominates. This egalitarian depiction of Australia has come about because of more than 200 hundred years of immigration since European settlement. Today one in every five Australians were born overseas and immigrated to Australia creating the cultural representation of an accepting, tolerant country where all people have an opportunity to get along and to achieve.…
Australia is a country that has been described as diverse, multicultural and unique. Our geography, flora, fauna and cultural history are different to anywhere else, which has definitely captured the attention of the rest of the world. Australian society has evolved in a very short space of time from the earliest convict settlements established in the mid nineteenth century, to the cosmopolitan states that currently exist and attract immigrants from all continents across the globe. Australia’s history has reflected conflict, human rights violations, economic growth and the hardship associated with establishing a refined society in a harsh and primitive landscape. Throughout the various stages of Australian history, Australians have attempted to grab onto an identity that makes them unique and able to bond with another fellow Australian. This has not always been easy, given the diversity that has grown over the centuries. The definition of the true Australian identity has changed over time.…
Since settlement, the Australian nation has been fixated on the question of “what defines us” as a people. From the bush legend of early settlement, to the beach culture of the 1980’s and 90’s, our search for a singular national identity has seen various failed attempts at pinning down ‘what it really means to be Australian’. National image and identity is a creation of the times, and as such, the pursuit for a defining any one national identity is an unattainable dream. In this essay I will endeavour to outline some of the flaws in previous attempts at defining Australia, as well as outlining the reasons why the notion of a single national image is unattainable.…