Aboriginal house names and settler Australian identity

Aboriginal House Names and Settler Australian Identity

During his time as a federal politician and prime minister, Alfred Deakin divided his time between his city residence in Toorak and his holiday retreat at Point Lonsdale. His family had acquired several acres of land on the Bellarine peninsula in 1904 where they had built a federation bungalow called ‘Ballara’. The word is probably derived from the Wathawurung word balla for ‘elbow’, thus ‘recl...

Aboriginal life and death in Australian settler nationhood.

Hannah Arendt identifies the onset of genocide under the Nazi regime with the declaration that ‘the German people not only were unwilling to have any Jews in Germany, but wished to make the entire Jewish people disappear from the face of the earth.’1 Arendt famously, and unpopularly, contended that the crime was a crime against humanity, perpetrated upon the body of the Jewish people.2 Eichmann...

Trade and Growth in Settler Economies: Australian and Canadian Comparisons

This paper analyses the historical relationship between exports, imports, and national income growth in Australia and Canada, using over 100 years of data for each country. I test for the presence of ìexport-led growthî and ìimport-led growthî in both countries over several time intervals, interpreting these concepts to mean a unidirectional causal ordering. I find no evidence to support the ex...

Aboriginal Cultural Identity

I Resume In the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada, there has been an imbalance in acculturative influences. Generally, Aboriginal peoples have been changed substantially, with serious erosion of their cultures and identities. However, this dominance by EuroCanadian peoples has also been met by resistance by Aboriginal peoples. Policy and programme change...

Differences Between Values of Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Students