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GFS Australia

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Laura Nebe

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Australia and the Aboriginies

GFS by Laura Nebe

Austalia

Australia

Structure

Structure

- Facts about Australia

- The history of Australia

- Australia today

- Refugee policy

- The Aborigines

- Their history

- The Dreamtime

- The Aborigines today

- The Sorryday

- Sources

Facts about Australia

Facts about Australia

Canberra

- Commonwealth of Australia : mainland of the

Australian continent, Tasmania, numerous smaller islands

- Capital : Canberra

- About 24 mio. inhabitants

- 7.692.024 km² big

(22 times bigger than Germany)

- More than 6 mio. visitors every year

- Currency : the Australian dollar (AUD)

Facts about Australia

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- There are over 200 languages

most popular : English, Italian, Greek, Cantonese,

Arabic,Vietnamese and Mandarin

- 5.700 different animal species

- 80% of the plants and animals

are unique to the continent

e.g. koala, kangaroo, dingo, platypus,

wallaby and wombat

Australian English - ''Strine''

British English Australian English

Hi G'day mate

Excellent! Very good! Ace!

How are you? 'Ow yer goin?

teacher chalkie

criminal bushranger

chicken chook

horses neddies

money lolly

Christmas Chrissie

food tucker

The history of Australia

The history of Australia

The history of Australia

- 50.000 years ago : Aborigines immigrated to Australia

from Indonesia

- 1616: Dutch explorers named the new land

(Tasmania) = New Holland

- 1770: James Cook found east coast

- Called it New South Wales

- Claimed it for Britain

- The British decided to use the land as a prison colony

- Needed a place to send its convicts

- 1788: the First Fleet (11 ships) carrying 1500

people to Sydney Harbour

- 1788-1868: about 160.000 convicts were brought to Australia

The history of Australia

- 1790s: Free immigrants arrived

- Cheap land and many jobs ->

more migrants from Britain

- Began to move deeper into Aboriginal

territories (often armed)

- 1851: Gold was discovered in New South Wales

and Victoria

- Thousands of hopefuls came from other states

- Population grew across south east Australia

- Wealth and growing industry

Eureka Rebellion

- 1854: Goldfield workers ('diggers') opposed

the government miners' licences

- Simple way for the government to tax the diggers

- No representation in the government (no right to vote)

- Leader: Peter Lalor

- They were attacked of the Regiment of the

British Army and policy groups

- The 'diggers' lost the battle

- A bill was passed : the right to vote and stand for

parliament to any digger who owned a miner’s licence

- Historians regard this as the beginning of the Australian democracy

Australia today

- Parliamentary constitutional monarchy

- The Commonwealth realm/of Nations =

A souvereign state, shares the same person as its head of state

- United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland

and its former colonies

Queen Elizabeth II

The refugee policy of Australia

- They refuse the asylum if an application

has not already been made abroad

- Military ships stop boats and send them back

- Refugee camps: ''Nauru'' and ''Manus''

- No medical care

- Rape victims

- Many suicide

attempts

- Temporary solution -> Permanent condition

The Aborigines

The Aborigines

The Aborigines

- ,,The Aborigines‘‘

Latin: origine = ,,from the beginning‘‘

- Lived in Australia since 50.000 years

- The flag : Black - the sky at night, yellow – the sun, red - the soil

- Isolated from the rest of the world

- Until 1770 there were about 1 mio. Aborigines

- 600 different nations (based on language groups)

- Lived as hunters and collectors in little clans

- They have a spiritual connection with nature

The history of the Aborigines

- 1788: Wave of European epidemic diseases (e.g.

influenza and measles)

- Declining birth rate due to rape

- Violent conflicts between settlers and the Aborigines

- Cattle- and sheep herds (from farmers) took their water away

- Were hunted by the Europeans and pushed in reserves

- Aboriginal-children had been taken away from their families

- Adoptive children in Australian families raised after

"white values ​​and morals" (= Stolen Generations)

1788-1920: from 1 mio. to 60.000 Aborigines

The Dreamtime

- The Dreamtime : history of creation ("Tjurkurrpa")

- Creative Ancestors : Forces and powers who have

created the world

- They slept and dreamed of the adventures of the following day

- Turned their dreams into reality

- They created all the elements of nature,

the sun, the moon, the stars, and the people and clans.

The Aborigines today

The Aborigines today

The Aborigines today

- There were about 250 different languages

- Today only 20 of them are still spoken

- The most life in cities or former church mission sites

- There are many issues facing Aborigines these days:

- Poverty and low income

- Poor education

- Poor access to medical assistance

- Drugs and alcohol problems

- Racial discrimination and

cultural differences

The Aborigines today

Major problems:

- Aboriginals live around 17 years less than non-

indigenous Australians

- Crime in communities :

- Aboriginals are 11 times more likely to be

in prison than non-indigenous Australians

- Most students leave school early

- 39% of students stayed on to year 12

at high school

- Compared with 75% of non- indigenous Australians

- Poor education -> low income -> a lower standard of life

The National Sorry Day

- Since the ''Bringing Them Home'' report in 1997

- Celebrated every year on 26 May

- Apology to the Stolen Generations

- Brings closer the indigenous and non-indigenous

- Aborigines can be treated equal

- Gives people the chance to write messages

and sign “sorry books” showing

their compassion

Sources

https://www.pravda-tv.com/2016/02/australien-aborigines-bleiben-ausgegrenzt-und-entrechtet/

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia

http://www.australia.com/en/facts/history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/eureka-stockade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians

http://www.planet-wissen.de/kultur/voelker/aborigines/index.html

http://www.australien-info.de/daten-vgleuropa.html

http://www.escapehere.com/destination/10-interesting-facts-you-didnt-know-about-australia/5/

http://www.in-australien.com/aborigines_10220

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Realm

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/dreaming

http://aboriginalart.com.au/culture/dreamtime2.ht...

http://aboriginalart.com.au/culture/dreamtime2.html

https://nineonetwo.wordpress.com/aboriginal-life-today/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Sorry_Day

http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/sorry-day-stolen-generations

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kevin+rudd+speech

https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-report-1997

http://tysaustralia.com/strine.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strine

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/australian_british_english.htm

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/fluechtlingskrise-das-modell-australien-ist-fuer-die-eu-kein-vorbild-a-1106179.html