The opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games began at dusk on September 15, 2000, with a fanfare of charging Aussie stockmen, dignitaries, flags, and anthems. Then the floor of the huge stadium was cleared. The sound of gulls signaled sea's...

Australian Aboriginal myths (also known as Dreamtime stories, Songlines or Aboriginal oral literature) are the stories traditionally performed by Aboriginal peoples[1] within each of the Aboriginal language groups across Australia. All such myths...

As more Australians adopt the attitude that all cultures have unique value, they must confront the problem of how the government is to treat the Aborigines. Extremists feel white people and Aborigines should have never met, but the fact of Aboriginal near-extinction requires a...

Abstract: In this paper we explore the changing relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Australian state within the context of Australian federalism. Our particular focus is on the relationship between the institutional organisation of Australian health systems and the equitable provision of health...

Describes how Australian Aboriginal religious symbols relate to their beliefs of dreaming. Describes Aboriginal art as being very simplistic and illustrated by their use of circles, curved lines, straight lines and dots. Explores how people are able to feel the artwork because it allows interaction between the environment and the person in contact with the artwork.

Through the British colonists attitude of ethnocentrism or Social Darwinism in 1788, Australia was declared `terra-nullius' `land belonging to no-one' and Aboriginal peoples were subject to policies of dispossession and protectionism in a bid to the eventual demise of all facets of their traditional culture.