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Kakaud National Park History
Title: Kakaud National Park History
Category: History / World History
Details: Words: 965 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Kakaud National Park History
History Essay
Question: Using one of the following contemporary issues, explain how this issue has been a significant development in Australia's social and cultural history.
Kakadu is Australia's largest National Park, at 19,804 square kilometres. Legally it is Aboriginal land, leased to the Commonwealth Government since 1979. When experiencing the wonders of Kakadu National Park it is hard to look past the cultural and social significance it has had in Australian history. For over 40,000 years Aboriginal people …showed first 75 words of 965 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 965 total…their lives, their history and a means for them to relate back to their past. For non - indigenous Australian Kakadu has developed into a social means of money, trade, and tourism, in their history they see it has something they have overcome and defeated Aboriginals in. The white people see Kakadu as significant as it is their prize, they have built the mines on the land, and defeated aboriginal protests a protecting its cultural significance.
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