Reconciliation is the restoration of friendly relations between Aboriginal Australians and Non-Aboriginal. A healthy relationship is needed between Aboriginal Australians and Non-Aboriginal Australians as it is needed for the society to function healthily and appropriately. The Australian government has had various levels of success with achieving reconciliation. They have taken positive steps towards reconciliation, but achieving reconciliation is a task in itself. Steps have been taken towards
Reconciliation What is reconciliation? How successful have the steps taken by successive Australian governments been towards reconciliation? What more, if anything should be done? Reconciliation is about building a better Australia, this includes improving the relationships between the wider Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the benefit of all Australians. In 1991, an Act of parliament established the council for Aboriginal reconciliation, this was a group
THE CHANGING NATIONAL IDENTITY OF AUSTRALIA: Australia’s national identity has greatly changed over the past 100 years since federation and will continue to change and evolve into the future. The national identity of Australia is composed of many different elements, however, the fundamental and core principles of Australia’s national identity rest on the political and recreational attitudes and values of her citizens and their rights and freedoms as individuals, the growing diversity in the racial
t is 1922, in the outback, ‘somewhere in Australia' (de Heer, 2002). Six Aboriginal people stand side by side, bound to one another by chains. Two police troopers, the Fanatic (Gary Sweet) and the Follower (Damon Gameau), scream at their faces while the Veteran (Grant Page), a third trooper, sits by and watches. As the Aboriginal people stand silently, a song sung by Archie Roach plays in the background, providing insight into their thoughts; ‘we are no longer free, we are dispossessed' (de Heer
The Stolen Generation is a hot topic at the moment in Australia and all around the world due to the popularity of the book and now film Rabbit Proof Fence. While our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd has now apologised in parliament, for the wrongs done to the Stolen Generation, on behalf of all Australians, it is hard to determine whether such an apology is enough to repair the damage done historically. Many aboriginal people who with their families were affected through forced adoption or separation from
of Indigenous people suffered life long negative consequences. For example in todays society, those who are members of the Stolen Generations are more likely to suffer from depression, or have a shorter life span than other Indigenous people.(Reconciliation Network, 2007) Another impact is a lot of people say that they don’t know who they are, as they were disconnected from their land, language and family. A key historical event, which has impacted positively on a vast majority of Indigenous people
Pearson Pearson’s speech oversees the importance of future reconciliation and our responsibility as a nation “for the present and the future, and the past.” In discussing the past, Pearson creates a division between “ordinary Australians” and Aboriginal Australians by consistently using second person diction “they will say” and “you have taken from us not just our land.” as it is important to highlight the areas of discourse and identify sources of conflict. Pearson then uses binary opposition to
INTRODUCTION Introduction to the Company The Hirdaramani legacy began in 1890 when Parmanand Hirdaramani set up the first Hirdaramani retail store in Fort, Colombo. He made a name for himself in the early 1900s by introducing the concept of same-day tailoring to passengers of cruise liners that docked at the Colombo Harbour. The innovative Hirdaramani spirit took flight, emerging from these small beginnings to steadily become the one-stop manufacturing hub and diversified group that it is today.
Qantas is now the Australia’s leading airline for both domestic and international flights. It had been founded in 1920 in Queensland, which means Qantas has been operating for 95 now. It, also, is one of the strongest brands in Australia nowadays. The directors say ‘We have built a reputation for excellence in safety, operational reliability, engineering and maintenance, and customer service’. Qantas flies to about 38 countries making more than 850 international flights weekly. More importantly
the oldest airlines in the world and also one of the most recognized in Australia. Qantas is the flag carrier airline of Australia and supports a fleet size of 131 aircrafts as of today and has a employee size of 32,500 people and offers services across a network spanning 182 destinations in 44 countries in Australia, Asia, America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.and its main