Yearly Exam Flashcards
What is the meaning of the dreaming?
The dreaming involves past, present and future. It encompasses everything to do with the spirit ancestors, including the first beings (creators), their creative activity in forming the world, and the continuing relationship between the ancestors and the natural environment they created.
What is Terra Nullius?
Terra Nullius can have many different meanings ranging from ‘empty land’ to ‘land owned by no one’, depending on what people want to believe.
Describe the relationship aboriginals with the land.
Land is the source of all aspects of life - economic, spiritual, cultural, social and political. There is no sense of ownership, rather a feeling of belonging. Land provided aboriginal people with the necessities to survive - food, clothing, shelter.
What is ethnocentrism?
Ethnocentrism refers to the belief that one’s own culture is superior to the cultures of other people, that members of one’s own culture are superior to members of other cultures, and that these beliefs provide justification for discriminating against people from other cultures on those grounds of perceived cultural superiority.
What is stereotyping?
Stereotyping is a belief that relies on unverified and insufficient first impressions and oversimplified concepts.
Describe the differences between European and Aboriginal views of land ownership.
In 1788, the First Fleet encountered an unfamiliar land occupied by people they didn’t understand. Britain took formal possession of Australia. Once the land had been declared Terra Nullius the British took control over the land without consent and felt no need to negotiate with the local indigenous people.
What happened at the Gurindji strike?
Aboriginal people held a strike in Gurindji which attracted public wide support within Australia for land rights. In 1975, Gough Whitlam handed back the traditional land to the Gurindji people.
What are four major points about land rights in NSW?
+ The state government made it possible for aboriginals to regain some land, their people have made significant progress on the way to self-sufficiency.
+ The state government promised to give aboriginal people 7.5% of land tax until 1998.
+ Each year they invest half of this money and use the other half to buy land, establish businesses, build houses for their people and administer land councils.
+ Their land and properties are owned by 117 local aboriginal land councils.
What are the three major points about the 1983 New South Wales land rights act?
+ It is sitting to acknowledge the importance which land has to aborigines and the need of aborigines for the land.
+ Funding for land councils under the New South Wales land rights act is calculated to equal 7.5% of annual land tax revenue collected by the state government.
+ In some respects the act requires updating and modification but it does give aboriginal people, for the first time, opportunity to work towards real self-determination.
Name six issues that need to be considered in relation to community consultation.
Historical context The six core values Research Merit and integrity Justice Beneficence Respect
In relation to community consultation, what is meant by historical context?
Research was usually not in the best interest of aboriginal people.
In relation to community consultation, what is meant by the six core values?
Reciprocity Responsibility Respect Equality Survival and protection Spirits and integrity
In relation to community consultation, what is meant by research merit and integrity?
To ensure that research methods are respectful and acknowledge the cultural distinctiveness of discrete Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander communities or groups participating in the research.
In relation to community consultation, what is meant by Justice?
Should provide opportunities to develop trust and a sense of equal research partnerships.
In relation to the consultation, what is meant by beneficence?
In Hanseman on the establishment of capabilities, opportunities or research outcomes that advance the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people.
