Australian History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (354) essays
Australian History essays:
Aboriginal Activism
... European settlement in the late 18th century was approximately 300,000. Today that population has dropped to around 386,000 representing 2.1% of the total population. Upon arrival of the First Fleet, the aboriginal people were dispossessed of their land, decimated by violent conflict ...
Explain how Maori society changed as a result of cultural contact with Europeans by 1840
... European technology. For example, with the arrival of guns and armour, many traditional weapons such as meres were discarded because they were deemed useless. Maori also learnt new skills in place of old ones. Maori changed their way of doing many things, for example, building a house ...
Impacts of the Vietnam War on Australian Society
... 1967, sited in http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/6_1.htmlEffects of the war on Australian war veterans:Australia's first commitment to the Vietnam war started when Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of the government in South Vietnam ...
Was the fear of the Japanese aggression in South-East Asia in World War 2 justified?
... Government, I demand the relief of those troops."� This friction was driving a wedge between Australia and Britain, as both were fighting a war on different fronts and Britain had given priority to the European war. The fact that Japanese invasion became a real threat during the War ...
Australia and Anti-Communism Description: discussion about how anti-communism in Australia influenced Australian politics and foreign policy.
... a third world war (involving communists) was quite high. In fact 2 in 3 people believed that peace would not last beyond 1958�. The government decided that Australia must prepare itself for any encounter with the communists and so devised an appropriate foreign policy ...
The Petrov Affair in Australia
... p-c_s-14_u-116_t-312_c-1055/the-petrov-affair-1954/nsw/the-petrov-affair-1954/australia-in-the-vietnam-war-era/australia-s-responses-to-the-threat-of-communism ...
A study of aboriginals - written as if i was part of the time (first person) in the form of journal entries
... a torch and decided to wander off. Luckily no-one noticed because I didn't want any company. I wasn't ready for these judgmental peoples opinions on the Aboriginals, I wanted to see for myself. It was about a 2km walk until I saw a ...
Australian Prisoners of War during World War 2
... Australian prisoners of War faced appalling times at the hands of the Japanese in World War 2 . Bibliography:Australia ... a bad way, suffering from deficiency diseases, malaria, ulcers, basically they were suffering from many diseases ...
Outline Australia's involvement in the Korean War
... Australian Government's decision to enter the Korean war was fully supported by the major Opposition party, the Labor Party. "We, as you know, in Australia are not rich in manpower. We feel that our people when they go to war ...
Changing Government Policies Concerning Aboriginal Peoples
... European diseases and alcohol, as well as the several massacres of Aboriginal peoples and random killings by white settlers. E.g. Myall Creek Massacre - 28 Aboriginal people killed. Life on a reserve was very strict. Not only did the manager of the reserve have total control of the Aboriginal people ...