Angry opposition to government redress: when the structurally advantaged perceive themselves as relatively deprived

We examined (structurally advantaged) non-Aborigines' willingness for political action against government redress to (structurally disadvantaged) Aborigines in Australia. We found non-Aborigines opposed to government redress to be high in symbolic racism and to perceive their ingroup as deprived relative to Aborigines. However, only perceived relative deprivation was associated with feelings of group-based anger. In addition, consistent with relative deprivation and emotion theory, it was group-based anger that fully mediated a willingness for political action against government redress. Thus, the specific group-based emotion of anger explained why symbolic racism and relative deprivation promoted a willingness for political action against government redress to a structurally disadvantaged out-group. Theoretical and political implications are discussed

Archaeologists and Aborigines

Aboriginal consultation and co-operation should be sought for exhibitions and the like - after all it is their people and their culture - otherwise we display a regrettable superior attitude and bad manners

Archaeologists and Aborigines

Aboriginal hostility to archaeological work in Australia seem to be due mainly to lack of public understanding of what archaeology is all about. For this archaeologists themselves are chiefly to blame, because of their general disinclination or inability to communicate in a popular wa

Nose-flute Players

A black and white photograph - (Written on the reverse) ‘Pat Noone, Protector of Aborigines, Perak, encouraging Nose-flute players’

Malaya Broadcasting Corporation Recording Van

A black and white photograph - (Written on reverse) ‘8th December, 1941 Malaya Broadcasting Corporation Recording van at Bersei, Upper Perak, with Ple-Temiar aborigines after previous night recordings specially constructed “Longhouse” in background’

Up Front and Beyond the Centre Line: Australian Aborigines in Elite Australian Rules Football

Although there has been a substantial growth in the number of Aboriginal players in the Australian Football League over the past decade, issues of structural and institutional racism have not been explored. This investigation of the assignment of players by position revealed marked patterns of difference, which tend to reflect stereotypes about Aboriginal athletes. The results are similar to research conducted in the USA and the UK but suggest even stronger patterns of differentiation

Historical reasoning about Indigenous imprisonment: a community of fate?

The high rate of Indigenous incarceration is a problem for public policy and therefore for historical and social analysis. This paper compares and contrasts two recent attempts at such analysis: Thalia Anthony’s Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment (2013) and Don Weatherburn’s Arresting Incarceration: Pathways Out of Indigenous Imprisonment (2014). What difference do these books’ contrasting narrative models of Australian history make to our thinking about contemporary Indigenous incarceration? The paper reveals several differences and similarities in their perspectives: how they position themselves in relation to the values that shape Australian debate about punishment; their historical understanding of the institutions of ‘protection’ and of the impact of ‘assimilation’; whether the law and order apparatus is systemically biased against Indigenous Australians; and whether Indigenous Australians should be understood as a ‘community of fate’

AUSTRALIA : A STUDY IN ABORIGINE CULTURAL PRESERVATION

Human power in dominating each other has occurred long ago as the development of the era that increasingly advances. Preservation is done to keep everything that is owned by a certain community which is a symbol of their identity. The writer conducted a study about cultural preservation by the Aborigines in 'Australia' movie which shows the cultural preservation toward White’s power occuring in Australia. There is a problem to be solved in the study, namely how the Aborigines struggle for preserving their culture.This study uses postcolonial approach because it is the most suitable with the ideology of the movie. The pressure of the Whites to the Aborigines is very interesting to be reviewed with the approach. There is interventions of the white people to regulate everything connected with the Aborigines inAustralia. In response, the Aborigines try very hard to preserve what they have in culture.The analysis reveals that all the actions taken by the Aborigines to preserve their culture are wearing traditional clothes, preserving life wisdoms and believing in superstitions. The Aborigines and the Whites do not have good relationship each other. The writer found that both of them try hard to maintain what they have. In this case the writer gives more emphasis on the Aborigines’ efforts to preserve their culture which have been passed down from their ancestors for many years. By this way, the culture is still preserved from generation to generation. King George in this movie acts as a teacher to teach all the habits of the Aborigines to his grandson, Nullah so that the opportunity for the Whites to change the culture of the Aborigines decreases.In conclusion, the Aborigines maintain their culture as their identity to be recognized in Australia because they are the indigenous inhabitants who have been living there. As Aborigines, they believe every place in the territory of Australia is a power for them because their culture is always related to the nature