White Australians Attitudes to the Environment

This assessment requires a critical evaluation and a constructed argument of a selected topic. The topic that has been appointed for evaluation is as follows. ¡®Are the attitudes of non-Aboriginal Australians¡¯ to and uses of both fauna and introduced species characterised by continuity, or change over time.¡¯ To assist the evaluation of this assertion, the term continuity should be defined. The Macquarie Concise Dictionary defines continuity as, ¡®The state or quality of being continuous (Delbridge, 200).¡¯

This assessment will discuss firstly, the attitudes of White Australians to fauna and introduced species in a historical context and the impacts this has had to the environment. It will then discuss White Australians attitudes to fauna and introduced species in a contemporary context and the impacts of these attitudes. Lastly the assessment will argue the outlined hypothesis, which is as follows: The attitudes of White Australians toward Aust...