...This article was downloaded by: [UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE LIBRARY] On: 10 May 2012, At: 20:20 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of Sustainable Tourism Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsus20 Synergies between Australian indigenous tourism and ecotourism: possibilities and problems for future development Jeremy Buultjens , Deborah Gale & Nadine Elizabeth White a a b a Regional Futures Institute, School of Commerce and Management, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia b School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia Available online: 23 Apr 2010 To cite this article: Jeremy Buultjens, Deborah Gale & Nadine Elizabeth White (2010): Synergies between Australian indigenous tourism and ecotourism: possibilities and problems for future development, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18:4, 497-513 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09669581003653518 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-andconditions This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly...
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...these two roles will be touched upon in the present discussion. Early Efforts in Language Education Formal Western type education was introduced into the country by Christian Missionaries just before the middle of the nineteenth century. For about four decades after that initial date, both the nature and main thrust of Language Education in the country were completely left to those missionaries to decide (Taiwo 1980: 10 - 11; Fafunwa 1974:92). And given the well-known belief of most such missionaries, first, that the African child was best taught in his native language (Hair 1967:6), and, second, that the interests of Christianity would best be served by actually propagating that religion in indigenous languages, it is not at all surprising that the teaching and learning of indigenous languages received much genuine attention in those early days of Western type education in the country. But not everybody liked or approved of the...
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...of English as a national language in a multi lingual society like Nigeria. What is Language? Hornby (2001:667) defines language as the system of communication in speech and writing that is used by a people of a particular country. Oderinde (2005) sees language as a “system and vehicle of communication. Language is a symbol used by members of a given society, both in written and oral form. What is a Nation and a National Language? According to the Oxford Learners Dictionary, a nation is also considered as a group of people with the same language, culture and history who live in a particular area under one government. Countries like Cameroun, France, Thailand, Switzerland, United States of America etc. are nation states . A national language is a language or language dialect that has some connection with a people and the territory they occupy. It can be described as a dominant language in a multilingual environment used for regional and nation-wide communication. French is used as a mother tongue and national language in France, Thai in Thailand, Urdu in Pakistan, English in the United Kingdom and English in Nigeria but some scholars have argued that Nigeria cannot be called a nation exactly because of the presence of various ethnic groups which have their own languages, Hausa, Yoruba and Ibo being the three main indigenous language. Nigeria can therefore be said, according to these scholars, to be made up of “three nations”. The socio-cultural and political and religious...
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...History 214 May 30, 2014 Michael Kent Ward, “Teaching Indigenous American Culture and History: Perpetuating Knowledge or Furthering Intellectual Colonization?”, Journal of Social Sciences 7 (2): 104-112, 2011.doi 10.3844/jssp.2011.104.112 This article was interesting but very hard to read. Mr. Ward imposed some great questions about the way we learn Native American history, but in my opinion never answered them. While I agreed with his main argument, “.. everyone involved (teachers, students and indigenous peoples) are best served when traditional American Indian authorities are regularly consulted, with regard to matters involving public presentations and interpretations of indigenous cultures.” This article still left me wanting more. There are a number of ongoing issues related to the teaching of Native American History but only offering that communication is the answer was too vague for me. I would have liked the author to go into more detail on how the educators can better obtain the information to depict the Native Americans in a way where it was not a misrepresentation. “A related question concerns problems associated with limiting access to cultural knowledge versus increased demands for open access to information.” The only Native American studies I remember from grade school is the story of Sacagawea. Why? When Native American history is essentially the first American history, why are we waiting until the college level to educate ourselves...
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...Qantas Airways Limited HR Strategy FY14/15 Introduction Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia's largest domestic and international airline. Registered originally as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited (QANTAS), Qantas is widely regarded as the world's leading long distance airline and one of the strongest brands in Australia. Our airline brand operates regional, domestic and international services and is forever expanding, it is for this reason we are constantly seeking passionate, driven and enthusiastic people to join our friendly team. We employ over 30,000 people with approximately 93 per cent of them based within Australia. Qantas Airways Limited is committed to growing and developing their HR departments and within the next 12 months will: * Establish themselves as the best employer in the aviation industry in Australia. * Will maintain a positive and joyful employment experience across all offices, airports and aircrafts for all current and future Qantas employees. HR Strategy The Qantas Airways Limited HR strategy supports and lays the foundations of the organisations vison and mission. It will be analysed and measured by the success of a number of key programs focusing on the following areas of people management: * Culture and Behaviour * People and Structure * Recruitment and Retention * Reward and Recognition * Learning and Development * Systems and Compliance ...
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...How can culture and history impact on service delivery? As a staff working in a community services industry, sometimes we may find it is very difficult and frustrating to build an open and trusting relationships with people come from diverse backgrounds and vice versa. This is usually due to a lack of understanding about their cultural and historical backgrounds which might have a big impact on issues related to their social and emotional wellbeing and mental health. There are many cultural and historical factors that we (staff) need to acknowledge in order to work with CALD people as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. By having an insight understanding and knowledge of their history and its context, it is very helpful for us to identify the recent impacts they have on communities and how we can work with them. It is also undeniable that culture and history affects their present and future. Especially for the Aboriginal people, the history had given them many tough and bad experiences which may affect the way they perceive or interact with other people. What is cultural safety? According to William (1999), cultural safety is defined as :” An environment that is spiritually, socially and emotionally safe, as well as physically safe for people; where there is no assault challenge or denial of their identity, of who they are and what they need. It is about shared respect, shared meaning, shared knowledge and experience of learning together”. The “cultural...
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...Indigenous Cultures of Indonesia Today Erlangga Rajendra Geography 1500 Dr. Moshe Rapaport Indigenous Cultures of Indonesia Today The Republic of Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation, with a population of 203 million people living on around a thousand permanently occupied islands. The population is constituted by some 200-300 ethnic groups each speaking their own language and dialects. The Indonesian national culture is multicultural and is anchored on the older societies and interethnic relations. The national culture was developed by those who fought the Dutch colonialists in the 21st century. During this period, there were cultural stresses that the colonialists like the Dutch, the Portuguese and others brought to the indigenous people. The national culture is built having its, historical roots, institutions, values, beliefs and customs that were shared by many of the indigenous people. It is still being improved in the 21st century making it undergo certain stresses. This paper seeks to analyze to what extent corporate interest can be held responsible for the disappearance of native cultures (Countries and Their Cultures , 2012). The extent to which corporate interest can be held responsible is a dilemma that needs to assess the risks and benefits to a community. The basic principle of universality, equality and non-discrimination entitles the indigenous people to full range of rights that constitute the international law. Office of the High Commissioner...
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...INTRODUCTION Training and development is the main part in Human Resource Management (HRM). It is very significant for employees to enhance their performance and productivity, which leads to employee and customer satisfaction and an increase in the profitability of the organization.This report will be discussed by Australian public organization that named Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)in several aspects. 1. Introduce the background of DFAT, including background of the organization, the organization goals and strategy; 2. Link with DFAT to analyze five theories about training and development, which are cross-culture training, training design, development and managing diversity; 3. Summarize the performance in training and development and make a result that whether DFAT has a good performance in HRM; 4. Make some recommendations to promote the organization. BACKGROUND Background of the organization The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is a department of the government of Australia charged with advancing the Australian interests and the international representation of Australians. DFAT employs over 2000 permanent employees including 1140 of which were policy officers. In these policy offers, 49 per cent were working with the department in Australia, 35 per cent were overseas and 16 per cent were off-line (DFAT 2012, P4).In order to provide the Australian community and the government with the high quality foreign and trade policy results, the department...
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...inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous mortality rates in Australia Whilst the overall health of Australians is amongst the top third of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2010) here is a clear disparity between Indigenous and non-indigenous health when one considers that even in this day and age of modern medicine, Indigenous Australians are expected to live twelve years less than their non-indigenous counterparts for males, and ten years less for females (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2010) Despite significant improvements over the past decade Aboriginal infant mortality is still approximately three times that of non-Aborigines. For ATSI, the reduced overall impact of the communicable diseases has been balanced by a worsening of the "lifestyle" diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and diabetes which are the biggest single killers of Indigenous peoples and an area where the Indigenous and non-Indigenous health equality gap is most apparent. (Australian Bureau of Statistics,2013) Where in 2012, death in coronary heart disease was number one; Indigenous:non-Indigenous rate ratios was 2:1,and second leading disease was diabetes was 7:0. The third leading cause of death was suicide for Indigenous males and chronic lower respiratory diseases for Indigenous females.(AGDHA,2013) These ratio’s are evident of huge inequality between indigenous and non-indigenous mortality rates...
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...Communication is the process of transferring information and ideas between one another. It is central to ways we experience life and what it is to be human. Communication is the method of transferring information and ideas between one another. It is vital to ways we understand life and what it is to be human. The context in relation to communication fundamentally allows people to function, co-operate and co-ordinate at high levels. The three theories of communication models known as linear, interactive and transactional all rely on context. This essay will examine how communication is influenced by context, as it is an important factor and without it the process cannot occur effectively. An analysis of the four types of context in relation...
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...Abstract Aboriginal people have been described as the most educationally disadvantaged group of people within Australia. Due to a lack of knowledge of Indigenous educational practices, and a lack of research into the high rates of detentions, absenteeism and suspensions for Indigenous students, attendance rates across all levels of education are lower for Indigenous students than those of non-Indigenous students. Research and government policy is now attempting to address these issues. Through culturally sensitive policies of inclusion, and focused strategies embedding Indigenous perspectives in education models, progress is possible towards alleviating the current poor state of Indigenous students in the Australian school system. The State of Aboriginal Education All young Australians are entitled to equal educational opportunity. Until Indigenous Australians can choose from the same range of futures as other Australians, we are not achieving our nation’s promise as a democratic society (Kemp, D. in METYA, 2000, pg. 3). Aboriginal people have been described as the most educationally disadvantaged group of people within Australia (ATSISJC, 1995). Their attendance rates across all levels of education are lower than those of non-Indigenous Australia (ABS, 2006). Poverty, health problems, infant mortality, infectious diseases, and a life expectancy that is between 15 to 20 years lower are all major factors adversely affecting their education potential (ATSISJC...
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...three-year net earnings before taxes (NEBT) to charity, or has otherwise been notably generous in its giving. | Support for Housing | The company is a prominent participant in public/private partnerships that support housing initiatives for the economically disadvantaged, e.g., the National Equity Fund or the Enterprise Foundation. | Support for Education | The company has either been notably innovative in its support for primary or secondary school education, particularly for those programs that benefit the economically disadvantaged, or the company has prominently supported job-training programs for youth. | Indigenous Peoples Relations | The company has established relations with indigenous peoples in the areas of its proposed or current operations that respect the sovereignty, land, culture, human rights, and intellectual property of the indigenous peoples. KLD began assigning this strength in 2000. In 2002 KLD moved this strength rating into the Human Rights area. | Non-US Charitable Giving | The company has established substantial, innovative charitable giving programs outside the U.S. In 2002 KLD stopped assigning strengths for Non-U.S. charitable giving in the Non-U.S. category, companies with exemplary giving programs outside the U.S. are tracked in the Community area. | Other Strength | The company has an exceptionally strong volunteer program, in-kind giving program, or other particularly strong community program. | Concerns | Investment Controversies...
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...OUR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE AND ITS IDENTITY Language is species specific and species generic possession that is uniquely human. It is peculiar to human beings and it can be both an individual property (when it exists as knowledge) and a social property, (when it manifests to perform its functions). The survival of the language of a people is very vital to the people's survival on the whole. In 2012, the United Nations held a forum on ‘The Study on the role of languages and culture in the promotion and protection of the rights and identity of indigenous peoples’. The importance of language is summed up in the following quote: “Language is an essential part of, and intrinsically linked to, indigenous peoples’ ways of life, culture and identities. Languages embody many indigenous values and concepts and contain indigenous peoples’ histories and development. They are fundamental markers of indigenous peoples’ distinctiveness and cohesiveness as peoples.” This is because "Language is not only a vehicle through which a peoples culture can be expressed but also a medium of one's thought, imaginations, creativity, aspirations, desires, emotions, indeed the entire human need and capacity" (Banjo, 1971). According to Hale in Orkar (2006:5), losing one's language entails losing one's "culture, intellectual wealth, a work of art etc. It is like dropping a bomb on a museum." Language captures the entire essence of man. It makes man who he is and what he will become. Chomsky in Banjo...
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...IMPACTS OF GROWING POPULATION IN MT. MATUTUM PROTECTED LANDSCAPE ROLANDO T. VISAYA & JOCIEL M. TECSON Students ERM - 216 Submitted to: MARIE ANTONETTE S. PAŇA, MSc ERM ERM 216 – DYNAMICS OF POPULATION, RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENT University of Southeastern Philippines, Obrero, Davao City ERM 216– DYNAMICS OF POPULATION, RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENT ROLANDO T. VISAYA, JOCIEL M. TECSON TERM PAPER I. Executive Summary Increasing population is contributing serious environmental threat on all component of the natural environment particularly on Mt. Matutum Protected Landscape (MMPL). Impact of man’s activities on all component of the natural environment on MMPL particularly the effect of increasing population, resource exploitation, and industrial advancement. Matutum is one of the vital ecosystems that significantly fuels the economy of the SOCSKSARGEN (South Cotabato-Sultan Kudarat-SaranganiGeneral Santos City) growth corridor of Southeastern Mindanao and of Region XII. Its forest resource provides invaluable benefits from various wood based products for both domestic and export consumption. The plant and animal species found in the forests offer vast potentials as renewable sources of food, fiber, medicine and materials for industrial uses while its natural features provide aesthetics and recreation. It is an important watershed serving as headwater and catchment of several major drainages in the area. It supplies 25 percent of the water requirement...
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...Language Situation in Bangladesh Abstract This paper charts the state of language situation that exists in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been known as a monolingual country since its independence in 1971, Bangla (or Bengali) being its only national and official language. Therefore multilingualism has not been a political issue in Bangladesh, though a situation beyond the monolingualism can be observed in the language situation of Bangladesh, if the three different scenes— a) distribution of regional varieties of Bangla, b) distribution of indigenous languages and c) trend of foreign language use in different social settings— are taken into consideration. Keywords Bangladesh, Language situation, Regional varieties of Bangla, Minority languages, Foreign language use Introduction The aim of this paper is to chart the present state of language situation beyond monolingualism that exists in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been known as a monolingual country with the population of 150 million (approximately), Bangla (or Bengali) being its only national and official language since its independence in 1971. However, before the independence, the region now known as Bangladesh had been existed as a multilingual country for centuries throughout its social and political development. In the early period of history, there were various aboriginal speech communities including mainly the speakers of Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages distributed throughout the different regions...
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