Aboriginal Spirituality

Question 1

Bringing them home report

Answer 1

The “stolen generation” is recognised in the “bringing them home report” in 1995.

The separation of children from their families was described in the “bringing them home” report as “tantamount to a continuing cultural and spiritual genocide”.

Question 2

Mabo

Answer 2

1992 high court decision, Mabo vs Queensland no. 2, rejected the doctrine of terra nullius, recognising indigenous ownership of land.

Question 3

Native title act

Answer 3

1993, recognised the existence of native title in law, and laid down the guidelines and structures by which indigenous people could pursue native title. (They must show that they have maintained a traditional connection with the particular land and that their title has not been legally extinguished, for example by the granting of freehold title.) This act left open the question of whether pastoral leases could be subject to a native title claim.

Question 4

Wik

Answer 4

1996, the High Court ruled that native title could coexist with a pastoral lease. Where there was conflict, pastoral leases would prevail.

Question 5

The native title amendment act

Answer 5

1998, removed the right of aboriginal people to negotiate on pastoral leases, merely consult. (Set back to the land rights movement)

Question 6

Sorry day

Answer 6

A formal apology to Australia’s indigenous people is that was given by the Prime Minister in 2008 for Australia’s past transgressions against the aboriginal people.

Question 7

The stolen generation

Answer 7

Is recognised in the “bringing them home report” in 1995, refers to the mass removal of aboriginal children from their communities by government agencies and church missions from 1900 to 1972.

Question 8

Reconciliation began when . . .

Answer 8

Reconciliation began when all states of Australia had given indigenous people is the right to vote in 1965.

Question 9

Second step towards reconciliation . . .

Answer 9

In a 1967 referendum 90% of Australians voted to change the Constitution in counting aboriginals in the census counting them as human beings and Australians.

Question 10

2000 Corroboree Bridge walk

Answer 10

Reconciliation: religious leaders and adherents of all major religious traditions participated

Question 11

The dreaming is inextricably connected to the land as . . .

Answer 11

The dreaming is inextricably connected to the land, as the land is the physical medium through which the dreaming is communicated, since it is within the land that the ancestor spirits of the dreaming continue to dwell.