Aboriginal Rights Analysis

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Aboriginal Rights - How did this Right/Freedom help to shape the modern world?

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Author(s): Megan Davis is a professor in law, director of the Indigenous Law Centre and is a UN expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples. And George Williams, a lawyer and the Anthony Mason Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales. He has also authored/co-authored other Australian books such as A Bill of Rights for Australia and A Charter of Rights for Australia.
Date: Published sometime in 2015
Audience: Most likely adult Australians, keen to read and learn about Aboriginals and their struggles.
Message: The message here is to inform and fixate Australian’s views to learn about and appreciate the complex …show more content…
Message : The message spread by Eddie Mabo was the importance of Aboriginal heritage in Australia and how we must accept that the Aborigine population deserves far more than what they have been given, something the majority of Australians struggled to grasp until the 3rd of June 1992, when the Mabo Decision was made. The message shared by the AIATSIS is to simply enlighten others about Aboriginal culture, history and rights.
Agenda: The agenda of the website is to ultimately inform as many people as possible about important Aboriginal traits and past events. The agenda of Eddie Mabo was to create a world where white Australians and Indigenous Australians could live side by side and hand in hand.
Nature: The website has a very inviting nature and succeeds in delivering its information swiftly and efficiently, the source is easy to read and gather information from.
Technique: Informative, the source can be used to gain insight to everything that has anything to do with Aboriginal culture and heroic …show more content…
The levelling of the playing field between minority and majority classes was an issue which had been recognised world-wide after the Second World War, the publicity and awareness of racism in Australia spiked after World War 2 due to universal limelight and other major countries witnessing the cruel treatment Australians gave to Aboriginals. This factor of embarrassment Australia experienced after its racism was recognised and would play a role into the Aboriginal Rights Civil movement and to a degree would inspire many Aboriginals to stand up against the majority classes.
Aboriginal rights and the rights of other minority classes went hand in hand and influenced each other through their struggles. An example of campaigns between the two parties would be the Freedom Rides, a bus full of black people and the white people who supported them, would travel around rural areas to towns known for their racism and peacefully protest by exposing themselves to the people who hated them. Major influential civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. would influence Australians such as Charles Perkins, who was studying at university at the time, to take part in activist events such as Freedom Rides in Australia, Charles insisted the media to follow the Freedom Rides around to get as much media coverage as possible to share the mistreatment of his Aboriginal
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