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Profession-Specific Activity:
In what ways will a knowledge of the history of Indigenous political
activism be important to your audience (recent graduates) in their future
professional lives?
Good afternoon fellow teachers, my name is Tayla Corrigan and today I will
be informing you about the political struggles and activism of Indigenous
people, and the importance of understanding government policies on
Indigenous issues. The issues I will be focussing on today are land rights
and reconciliation. Knowledge of this will assist us in becoming culturally
competent teachers that will be able to encourage students today to be
aware of the significance of the impact of Aboriginal
history.
Reconciliation is about unity and respect between
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous
Australians. It is about us valuing each others cultures and
way of life. As teachers today we need to educate children
to be able to understand the Indigenous way of life, so that
they can appreciate and understand the depth of
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history, painting and film. This would provide a deep insight for children to
see the amazing culture of Indigenous Australians.
As teachers today we all need to be educated on the Indigenous affairs
that can be traced back to the period between 1960s and 1970s when
small groups of younger generation Aboriginal people educated
themselves politically, and developed a movement that changed the
course of Australian history(Merlan, F. 2005). In 1965 an Aboriginal man
named Charles Perkins became involved at university with a group of
white students from an organization called Student Action For Aborigines
(SAFA) (Foley, G. 2010). These students went on a bus journey through
different towns across Northern NSW. They encountered racial
discrimination and intolerance from all kinds of people and what we know
today as the 1965 Freedom Ride had been inspired by
the action of the same name conducted by the civil
rights movement in the USA earlier that decade (Foley,
G. 2010). The Freedom Ride exposed Australian
racism to the world and as such was a significant
embarrassment to the Australian Government and
nation (Foley, G. 2010), and it was due to the efforts of
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