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Australia Geography and History
The Aboriginals
The Stolen Generations
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Australian Slang
100

Due to more moderate temperatures, most of Australia’s population lives... Where?

Near the coast (East coast)

100

Once stolen from their parents, Aboriginal Australian children were sent here.

Settlements or institutions (religious or government run)

100

Why are they called the Stolen Generations?

.....

100

The name of girls' home...

Jigalong

100

Flat out as like a lizard drinking

To be working really hard / to be busy


200
The century that the First Fleet set sail for Australia
What is the 18th century? (1788)
200

The name of the desert-like areas with little vegetation and stunted trees

What is the bush?

200

Settlement, this man was reapsonsible for tracking down Aboriginal Australian children by order of the government. His name and title.

 A. O. Neville (protecter of Aborigines)

200

Name of the tracker...

Moodoo

200

Esky

Portable icebox or cooler

300

What type of people did the British goverment choose to place in Australia (back when they first discovered it)?

Criminals

300

The prehistoric time that has given the Aborigines a spiritual bond with nature

Dreamtime

300
The scientific theory that human species can be improved and modified biologically?
What is eugenics?
300

The animal that helps the girls return to their mother in the film 'Rabbit Proof Fence'

(Spirit) bird

300

Arvo

Hilsen / good afternoon

400

How long is the Rabbit proof fence? (in km)

The fences took six years to build. When completed in 1907, the rabbit-proof fence (including all three fences) stretched 2,023 miles (3,256 km)

400

What were Aboriginals taught once they were captured?

English... About the Christian religion, housekeeping, traditions, domestic work, chores...

400
The decade when the abduction of the aboriginal children stopped
What are the 70s?
400

What happened to Molly after the story told in the movie....

She got married, had two daughters.... They all got dragged back to Moore River. But they escaped...

400

Fair Dinkum

... "Fair Dinkum, mate?" (you've got to be kidding, haven't you?)

500
The capital of Australia?
What is Canberra?
500
The number of years that the Aborigines have inhabited Australia
What are 60,000 years?
500

Aboriginal Australians make up 3% of Australia’s total population, but they make up about ___% of the prison system due to discrimation, intergenerational trauma, and unfair policing or sentencing.

20%

500

The author who wrote Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence, the book from which Rabbit Proof Fence was based on. (Help: She is connected to Molly...)

Dorris Pilkington Garimara (Molly's daugther)

500

Boomer

A large male kangaroo, as Rolf Harris sings, "Six white boomers, snow white boomers on Santa's Australian run...".