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The Army and aborigines during World War II
War is an exceptional circumstance. It is an interruption to the normal process of community life and tends temporarily to replace essentially civilian administration with one which is heavily influenced by the military.
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The Army and aborigines during World War II
War is an exceptional circumstance. It is an interruption to the normal process of community life and tends temporarily to replace essentially civilian administration with one which is heavily influenced by the military.
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Research and experiential learning: an understanding of the Australian Aborigines relationship to their environment
… of the complex relationship of Australian Aborigines to their environment. By coming to an understanding of another cultures relationship to the environment, it is possible to come to a greater understanding of one's own environmental relationships. The problem involves the issue of context …
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Visual memory in Australian Aboriginal children and children of European descent : experimental report
… third hypothesis related Kearins' theory to the Aborigines' superior 'cognitive mapping' ability as described by Lewis (1976). Hypothesis 1: As a result of ecological demand Aboriginal children from Alice Springs (a desert habitat) will be superior to a matched sample of European children from …
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Visual memory in Australian Aboriginal children and children of European descent : experimental report
… third hypothesis related Kearins' theory to the Aborigines' superior 'cognitive mapping' ability as described by Lewis (1976). Hypothesis 1: As a result of ecological demand Aboriginal children from Alice Springs (a desert habitat) will be superior to a matched sample of European children from …
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A matter of principle and practice: the sentencing of Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory Supreme Court 1974-1982
When an individual violates the criminal code of a western society, that society responds through the formal agency of the court by sanctioning the individual. The imposition of these sanctions implies the notions of discretion and decision making.
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A matter of principle and practice: the sentencing of Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory Supreme Court 1974-1982
When an individual violates the criminal code of a western society, that society responds through the formal agency of the court by sanctioning the individual. The imposition of these sanctions implies the notions of discretion and decision making.
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The activities of the Aborigines Protection Society as a pressure group on the formulation of colonial policy 1868-80
The Aborigines Protection Society existed for the purpose of protecting the rights of the indigenous populations of the colonies of the British Empire. It is the object of this thesis to demonstrate how effective it was in achieving this aim in a selected twelve year period, and to discover if …
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The return of the noble savage by popular demand : a study of Aboriginal television documentary in Australia
… representation. In myth-making about Australian Aborigines there has been a consistent paradigm of opposing poles-noble and savage, good blacks and bad blacks, primitive and civilised, real and unreal. Oscillating between these two poles are all kinds of imaginings of Aboriginal identity, …
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The return of the noble savage by popular demand : a study of Aboriginal television documentary in Australia
… representation. In myth-making about Australian Aborigines there has been a consistent paradigm of opposing poles-noble and savage, good blacks and bad blacks, primitive and civilised, real and unreal. Oscillating between these two poles are all kinds of imaginings of Aboriginal identity, …
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Responses to racial and ethnic discrimination : a study examining indigenous people in Australia and Chile
… (N = 101) Daten von australischen Aborigines erhoben. Aus der resultierenden Fragebogen-Endversion wurden die psychometrischen Eigenschaften des RDQ ermittelt, für die jeweils Stichproben von australischen Aborigines (N = 127) und - in einer ins Kastilische übersetzten …
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Black and White on Black: Whiteness and Masculinity in the Works of Three Australian Writers - Thomas Keneally, Colin Thiele, and Patrick White.
<p>White depictions of Aborigines in literature have generally been culturally biased. In this study I explore four depictions of Indigenous Australians by white Australian writers. Thomas Keneally's <em>The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith</em> (1972) depicts a half-caste Aborigine's attempt to enter …
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In from the cold : Tom Wills – a nineteenth century sporting hero
… three years later his father was murdered by aborigines in central Queensland in what is recorded as the highest number of European settlers killed by aborigines in a single assault. Remarkably, only five years after his father’s murder, Tom Wills coached an aboriginal cricket team from …
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Social mobility, Australian rules football and the Aboriginal athlete: a contemporary perspective
… care and education. As such, it appears that Aborigines are disadvantaged in relation to opportunities for achieving upward social mobility. International research into the relationship between race, ethnicity and sport has suggested that professional sports participation may positively assist …
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