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The travails of apartheid South Africa speak to today's rise in authoritarianism, which William Kentridge probes in his art. Review: William Kentridge's sprawling Broad installation is an ...
Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87] In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian Parliament, deliver an apology to the stolen generations and to all Indigenous Australians who had suffered because of the unjust government policies of the past.
Historian Nick Estes has referred to the United States' history of pushing Indigenous nations onto smaller and smaller reservations as comprising "a new spatial arrangement of apartheid". [124] Journalist Stephanie Woodard argues that the term "apartheid" is "an apt description of the relationship between the United States and its first peoples ...
In 1987, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, in his role as the head of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group campaigning against apartheid, visited Nelson Mandela in prison. In February 1990, Mandela was released from prison and in October 1990, Mandela, as President of the African National Congress ; paid a visit to Australia. [ 8 ]
Felicia, Lady Kentridge (née Geffen; 7 August 1930 – 7 June 2015) was a South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist who co-founded the South African Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in 1979. [1] The LRC represented black South Africans against the apartheid state and overturned numerous discriminatory laws; Kentridge was involved in some of ...
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
Walker, David. (2019) Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region (UWA Press, 2019) Willard, Myra (1923). History of the White Australia Policy to 1920. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-83830-8. Williams, Michael (2021). Australia's Dictation Test: The Test it was a Crime to Fail. Brill. p. 168. ISBN 978-90-04-47110-8.
The Australian settlement was a set of nation-building policies adopted in Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. The phrase was coined by journalist Paul Kelly in his 1992 book The End of Certainty .