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This 8 page paper looks at the way the aboriginal people of Australia have been represented in the media. The paper starts with the initial reports from some of the first visitors to Australia including Capitan William Dampier and Captain Cook and traces the images and representations looking at the written word and films such as Heritage, Jedda and Walkabout, examining the way the image has changed and the way representations take place in the twenty-first century. The bibliography cites 14 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEauabmedia.doc
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19th centuries the culture which has emerged in Australia is one dominated by the Anglo Saxon culture of the migrants (Torrence and Clarke, 2000). This domination of the aboriginal culture
and the perceptions that existed within the migrant population can be observed in the way that Aboriginal peoples have been represented throughout Australian history. The representation, in areas such as
literature, the media and film can be seen as reproducing many of the dominant views of the people that became the mainstream population and reflecting the history of the country.
The initial descriptions of Aboriginal people are found in the words of Capitan William Dampier. In Dampiers view, published in 1729, before Cook claimed the land, in the first
volume of "A Collection of Voyages" reporting on the time he landed on in North western Australia he portrayed the aboriginals as ignorant savages, stating "The inhabitants of this
country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these; who have no houses and skin garments,
sheep, poultry and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs .... setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from brutes" (quoted Overell, 1993). A more civilised image was
put forward by Hawkesworth in 1773 when editing the account of Captain Cooks voyage. In the third volume of An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His
Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere Cook talks of his first sight of Aboriginal people when the Endeavour sailed into Botany Bay. Male aboriginals are sighted fishing
form canoes and women, followed by children see the ship but do not express fear, and continue to prepare the fish that the men have caught (Overell, 1993). There is
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