CANBERRA, July 12 (Xinhua) -- A majority of Australians are in favour of recognizing the nation's indigenous people in the constitution. A poll released by Essential found that 70 percent of 1,097 respondents supported constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, wit...
I argue that while such imagery popularised reform and mobilised international support, recognition of Indigenous suffering was also heavily conditional upon its representation within conventional interpretive frameworks, as popular moral sensibilities allowed certain images, scandalous but familiar, to become...
2 Yet Australia's federal constitutional framework has remained conspicuously silent on the proper recognition and rights of its first peoples, and sometimes the teaching of constitutional law compounds this omission. The absence of Indigenous participation in the formation of the federal constitutional ...
To avoid shame and stigma, Indigenous persons first try to help themselves, they then turn to family, friends and community members. Family and friends struggle to assist problem gamblers, however, due to social norms approving gambling and low problem gambling recognition. 展开 ...
Indigenous Australia's oral tradition and religious values are based upon reverence for the land and a belief in this Dreamtime. The Dreaming is at once both the ancient time of creation and the present-day reality of Dreaming. There were a great many different groups, each with its own ...
They could be the oldest population of humans living outside of Africa—yet Australia has still never made a treaty with its Indigenous people.
Ken Wyatt, minister for indigenous affairs, announced the Encounter 2020 program on Thursday, saying it would commemorate the 250th anniversary of Cook's arrival while also acknowledging the lasting impact it had on the country's First Peoples. ...
Increasing recognition of this has led to a situation in which there are now over 80 qualified Indigenous doctors and almost 100 Indigenous medical students inAustralia. This achievement has only been possible because we live in the era of “self-determination” that was born, as was I, during...
state practices in relation to Aboriginal children were assigned to mainstream welfare departments along with institutions into which children were placed. The separation of children from their families up to the present day, continues to be an issue of deep concern for Indigenous people, as does th...
constitutional amendmentconstitutional redemptionconstitutional legitimacybasic lawhigher lawour lawIn January 2012, the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians ('Expert Panel') delivered its report to the then Prime Minister making a number of recommendations to amend the ...