Geography
The world’s largest coral reef on the Northeast coast of Queensland.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
Traveling from place to place; not settling in one place.
What is nomadic?
A personal account of a historical event told by word of mouth.
What is an oral history?
This is the official form of government practiced in Australia.
Parliamentary Democracy.
This author wrote Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence, the book from which Rabbit Proof Fence was based on.
What is Dorris Pilkington Garimara?
This ocean borders Australians West Coast.
What is the Indian Ocean?
About 40,000 years ago, humans traveled from ________ and settled in Australia. Today, they are known as indigenous or Aboriginal Australians.
What is Indonesia?
What is a settlement or institution?
The term used for the leader of Australia.
What is a Prime Minister?
Who is A. O. Neville?
This geographic feature covers about 1/3 of Australia.
What is desert?
They were/are the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under laws of their respective parliaments.
Who were the Stolen Generations?
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
What is colonization?
This is the law making body in a Parlimntary Democracy. It is similar to our Senate and House of Representatives.
The reason Molly decided to escape the night she saw a rain cloud above the Moore River Settlement.
She knew the rain would cover their tracks.
This monolith is almost in the center of Australia. It is sacred to Aboriginal Australians.
What is Uluru (Ayers Rock)
The term created by early anthropologists to refer to a religion-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs. It usually includes creation stories.
What is Dreamtime?
Due to lack of culturally relevant education, there are higher rate of this in Aboriginal communities.
What is illiteracy?
What is National Sorry Day?
What evidence is presented in the film to suggest that Mavis’ life is difficult?
She was raised at the Moore River Settlement. She worked as a domestic assistant for a man and wife that were cruel to her. The man snuck into her room in the middle of the night.
Due to more moderate temperatures, most of Australia’s population lives here.
What is the East Coast?
Aboriginal Australians make up 3% of Australia’s total population, but they make up about 20% of this population due to discrimation, intergenerational trauma, and unfair policing or sentencing.
What is the prison system?
Due to lack of access to adequate health resources, these are some of the major health challenges in Aboriginal communities.
Life expectancy is approximately 20 years lower than other Australians.
Higher rates of health related issues.
This Prime Minister was the first to publically apologize for the Stolen Generations in 2008.
Who is former Prime Minister Rudd.
Why was the Rabbit Proof Fence movie and the Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence book important?