Aborigines their interpretations and representations in Australia from 1788 to 2000

In Australia the Indigenous peoples show discrepancies in social inequalities. Through this paper it will attempt to analyze Australian Aboriginal culture, and heritage. Areas of literature, film, art, history and social sciences will be used to address the overall understanding of the interpretations and representations in Australia.

The social inequalities faced by the contemporary indigenous peoples in Australia, are largely a consequence of their colonial and developmental history. Australia was once a part of the British Empire; their constitutional, political and social institutions are representations of this. Australia has developed economies largely dependent on primary production and extractive industries, initially for English, and later world, markets. Within the political and economic framework, indigenous peoples have severely been marginalized and excluded. This exclusion and associated poverty is frequently seen as the downfall of the Aboriginal people (Bernd...