Building Modern Australia Definitions

Question 1

Terra Nullius

Answer 1

“Nobody’s land” or “land belonging to no one”

Question 2

Colonisers

Answer 2

People who take over “ones” land

Question 3

Doomed race

Answer 3

A scientific axiom of the late 19th century

Question 4

Social Darwinism:

Answer 4

Fear of evolution. Mankind has evolved from various different species

Question 5

Protection Policy:

Answer 5

Protection towards indigenous people

Question 6

Aboriginal protection act 1869

Answer 6

Gave the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines the power to take any Aboriginal child from their family at any time, for any reason

Question 7

White Australia policy:

Answer 7

A government policy in Australia that aimed to limit or prevent non-European immigration and maintain a predominantly white population.

Question 8

Acculturation

Answer 8

Acculturation is the process of adapting to a new culture while retaining aspects of one’s original culture.

Question 9

Assimilation

Answer 9

The process of adopting the culture of a dominant society and giving up one’s own cultural practices and identities.

Question 10

Culturation

Answer 10

Minority group retains culture

Question 11

Stolen Generation

Answer 11

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia who were forcibly removed from their families by Australian federal and state government agencies

Question 12

Removal of children

Answer 12

A series of government policies and practices that aimed to assimilate Indigenous children into white Australian society.