Sponsored: Aborigines
1. The Last Wave
SOC 118 ""-Peter Weir dir.(1977) In the film, , the director is trying to communicate the idea of a culture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture in the film is the white members of society living in Australia. The subculture in the film is the Aborigines who were natives to the land before the white people settled in Australia. The
2. The Aborigines
people are the native civilisation of Australia. They are believed to be the most primitive people in the world. The homeland of these people is so inhospitable that few Europeans have travelled into it. The traveller made his main camp at Ernabella Mission Station with his wife and research assistant Larui. They would stay here for a month to gath
3. Australia Day
is a day set aside to commemorate the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet at Sydney Cove on the 26 January 1788. On the day of his arrival, Captain Arthur Phillip declared the area that became the colony of New South Wales to be a British possession. This landing started the first permanent European settlement on this island conti
4. Australia Day
is a day set aside to commemorate the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet at Sydney Cove on the 26 January 1788. On the day of his arrival, Captain Arthur Phillip declared the area that became the colony of New South Wales to be a British possession. This landing started the first permanent European settlement on this island conti
5. No Sugar
The play, by Jack Davis seeks to expose the racist attitudes faced by Australian Aborigines at the hands of white authority whilst also promoting the strength of the Aboriginal culture and people in coping with these attitudes. Davis has manipulated narrative and theatrical elements such as characterization, symbol and costume within in order to pr