Sentences with phrase «australian culture and society»

«We have in this Declaration, both internationally and in Australia, the key signposts we need to follow to create an Australia where the rights of Indigenous Peoples and our cultural differences are valued, protected and seen as a positive part of Australian culture and society.

We acknowledge the diversity of Australian culture and society and acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as First Nations people and traditional owners of this land.

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She's bewitched by the artists who inhabit the Trenthams» circle, their cultured ways and their communal approach to life in the face of straitlaced Australian society.

Australia is a very multicultural society, and many Australians are familiar with Vietnamese food and culture.

The Minster emphasises citizenship rights and the ideal of an inclusive society but does elaborate what recognition the special place that Indigenous people occupy as the «first Australians» or recognition of Indigenous culture might entail.

The CU [Cattlemen's Union of Australia], ACF [Australian Conservation Foundation] and TWS [The Wilderness Society] acknowledge and affirm that the Aboriginal people, represented by the CYLC [Cape York Land Council], and the Peninsula Regional Council of ATSIC, are the original inhabitants of Cape York Peninsula who are entitled by their traditional law to their traditional customs and culture including access to areas of traditional significance.

• In one version of our future, Australia is a place in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and cultures are highly valued and interwoven into a broader, more caring Australian society at all levels.

The rights agenda presented by the Minister's speech effectively strips away the right of Indigenous Australians to define their own destiny, governance and culture as autonomous peoples and promotes their absorption within rather than their co-existence with the Government's neo-rationalist conception of society as an «aggregation of individuals».

The offer of inclusiveness to Indigenous Australians without consideration of the rights and values inherent within Indigenous cultures sounds all too much like invitation to conform to mainstream Australian society without extending a reciprocal invitation to non-Indigenous Australia to examine its relationship to the Indigenous population.

While media and government policy may cause hysterical stereotypical images of Aboriginal society in the minds of unknowing Australians, our culture and our Lore is positive and, if utilised, can keep us strong, safe and secure as Aboriginal peoples.

(ii) The Forum discussed a wide range of issues, but the one issue that discussion returned to time and again was the challenge faced by Indigenous youth in coming to terms with their Indigenous identity and the recognition provided to their culture in mainstream Australian society.

If the power of interests is to determine the basis of Australian society then Indigenous people, as a small minority group, will continue to lose their culture, their land, and their language to the will of the non-Indigenous majority.

While the High Court's decision in the Mabo case rectified the failure of Australian society to legally recognise Indigenous culture and law, the issue which remains to be resolved is the meaning and value that contemporary Australian society will give to Indigenous culture.

An Australian society that values and recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and heritage as a proud part of a shared identity.

An Australian society that values and recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and heritage as a proud part of a shared national identity.

It's seemingly small things like these that signal continuation of culture, a type of code born of resistance and resilience amid dominant Australian society.

A statement in the preamble could describe the place of Indigenous language and culture in Australian society, though it would have no legal or enforceable status.

The recognition of the special value of Indigenous culture within the Australian national identity accords with human rights standards which observe the special contribution of minority cultures to the cultural identity of the state, advising that: [ICCPR] Article 27 is directed to ensuring the survival and continued development of the cultural, religious and social identity of the minorities concerned, thus enriching the fabric of society as a whole.

Preservation and Promotion of Indigenous art and culture: For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture to be fully recognised and respected as the first and paramount art and culture within Australian society.

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