Aboriginal Australia Information Deficit Syndrome (AAIDS) Are you suffering from the Aboriginal Australia Information Deficit Syndrome? Take the following simple test to find out. Aboriginal Australia Information Deficit Syndrome Test Name 5 to 10 American Indian nations (tribes): Name 2 to 4 black politicians or actors: In the test above you probably knew some American nations—Cherokee, Comanche, Sioux, or Apache, for example. How many actors or politicians did you remember? If you couldn’t find a single Aboriginal nation, politician or actor you most likely suffer from what I call the Aboriginal Australia Information Deficit Syndrome (AAIDS). Schools fail Australians Until quite recently white Australian students received inadequate schooling about the oldest chapter of the history of their own country: Aboriginal culture. History lessons started with Captain Cook’s landing, brushing over 50,000 years of Aboriginal culture. If you are Australian, do you know who Eddie Mabo is? No information available But not only schools fail Australians.
Australian Centre for Photography us 48 years later with my class me in my first school in Pittsworth Queensland my little oasis Song. Imagine Questions about sydney Title Mabo - a timeline Posted It has been 20 years today since High Court handed down its decision on Mabo v Queensland (No 2), the landmark case known as Mabo, which paved the way for recognition of native title in Australia. News Online takes a look at the lead-up to the decision and how it changed the face of Australian society: Torres Strait Islander Eddie Koiki Mabo, who is at the time working as a gardener at James Cook University in Townsville, finds out he does not own the land back on Murray Island where he grew up. A land rights conference is held at James Cook University where Mr Mabo makes a speech outlining the land ownership and inheritance system on Murray Island. A lawyer at the conference suggests there should be a test case on claiming land rights through the court system. Central to the case is challenging the concept of terra nullius - that land claimed by Europeans on white settlement was uninhabited. Sadly Mr Mabo is not present to celebrate the victory.
Sorry Day and the Stolen Generations Warning. This article may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, report. The first was held on 26 May 1998 - one year after the tabling of the report May 1997. The about the removal of children was marked by intense since the mid-to-late 1980s. Documentation of forced removal of children The Bringing them Home report acknowledged that 'Indigenous children have been forcibly separated from their families and communities since the very first days of the European occupation of Australia' by governments and missionaries. Their motives were to 'inculcate European values and work habits in children, who would then be employed in service to the colonial settlers' (Ramsland 1986 quoted by Mason 1993, p.31). Aborigines Welfare Board, children doing exercises at Bomaderry Children's home, established 1909. Reappraisal