Welcome to The Movies
I LOVE watching movies. And here you’ll find my collection of inspiring, fun filled, thoughtful movies. From The Secret to The Blue Man Group Concerts. There’s something to learn from each movie. As I go through life I’ll be adding movies to this section. With reflections on how they relate to the coaching world, how by living like a character in the movie can bring success, and other reflections that’ll add to your life. I’ll be updating in the fashion of ‘Last Movie Seen’. So on we go. And ENJOY, won’t you?
Last Movie Seen:
Rabbit Proof Fence
An amazing story of what happened to the Aborigines. Here’s a brief history that I gathered from the web:
The wiping out
There were approximately 750000 Aborigines when Sydney was first settled by the British. The British thought they could take away the land from the natives, because they saw no system of government, no commerce or permanent settlements and no evidence of landownership. The Sydney Cove colony was founded on the legal principle of “terra nullius” – this meant that the land belonged to no one. The settlers were able to take land from the Aborigines. Finally, in 1993, they recognised that the native title had existed before the arrival of the British and the notion of terra nullius was overthrown.
Cruelties, done by the Whites
Many Aborigines were driven away from their land by force and a large number got numerous diseases. The balance between nature and the people was broken down, because many bought alcohol and drugs from the settlers. Sheep and cattle destroyed waterholes and many species disappeared. Whole tribes were massacred when the Aborigines fought back. The survivors were put into reservations and church missions. Many women were raped. Some Europeans saw the Aborigines as wild animals and hunting them was a kind of sport. Full-blood Aborigines in Tasmania were therefore wiped out. There were only 61,000 left in the early thirties of the 20th century.
The History went on
The scientific interest for the Aborigines came. By the early 1900s, the British wanted to segregate and “protect” the Aboriginal people. Employment and property rights were restricted and the state removed children from mothers if the father was non-Aboriginal. The positive side was that full-blood Aborigines living in reservations were protected in some way. The assimilation policy of the 1960s completely controlled the peoples’ life. They decided where the Aborigines could live and whom they could marry. The Aborigines were forced to adapt the European culture. The Aborigines became better educated and more organised after WW II. Citizenship was bestowed in 1967. The assimilation policy was replaced by policy of self-determination in 1972.
Life today: The outback
Large parts of the outback are desert. Many Aborigines live there nowadays. Today 200,000 Aborigines live in Australia. They had begun to forget their traditions and culture. Many had become sick and had begun to fight one another, but recent laws made it possible to regain there land. The problems disappeared when they came back to their land and lived there their traditional way of life. They live like before on some of these outstations: The Aborigines collect berries and seeds and they hunt kangaroos and other animals. The children learn more about their culture and language as well as English and mathematics. They are proud of their culture and their life, although they live in very poor houses and water is far away.
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