Aboriginal Affairs Case Study

This subject is very broad and includes the understanding of past, present and future of the Aboriginal people and their families. In particular, it is essential to lay stress upon how the history has been affecting peoples ' lives from past to present and will also affect our future.

Introduction In 1979, the National Aboriginal Conference (NAC) instigated a concentrated campaign calling for a treaty between Indigenous Australians and the Australian Commonwealth (Short, 2003, p. 494). The campaign gained a fair amount of legitimacy when it was adopted by the Aboriginal Treaty Committee (ATC), a respectable group of non-Indigenous academics

In the midst of the government's interference in the lives of the Indigenous after colonisation, they believed that bringing along protection legislations would work on the behalf of Aboriginals in order to make their lives easier. The Acts were used, as a way of implementing procedures for protection, separation and assimilation amongst the Indigenous populations. In the case of Aboriginals protection Acts are a representation of systematic control. The 1909 NSW Aboriginal Protection Act gave power to the Broad to regulate the lives of the Indigenous. They were monitored throughout their everyday lives, their employment, wages and who they marry or come in contact with. Undoubtedly the Aboriginals are left feeling caged within their own land. Sometime

Aboriginal History and Culture Aborigines are believed to have lived in Australia for between 60,000 and 40,000 years, their early ancestors coming from South-East Asia. Precise population details for the period before European colonisation are unavailable, but it is estimated that there were between 300,000 and 1,000,000 Aborigines in Australia when European settlers first arrived in 1788.

The CFCSA states in part 1, section 4, that “if a child is an aboriginal child, the importance of preserving the child’s cultural identity must be considered in determining the child’s best interest” (1996). In both cases, both youth had family members within their Indigenous culture that were willing to take them but due to unrelated circumstances these requests were not taken into consideration. The overrepresentation of Indigenous children in care is demonstrated here, where child protection workers are not equipped with the training or resources to adequately identify and address risk when dealing with Indigenous children. This is one of the recommendations within the TRC where “ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child

Throughout Australian history, Aboriginal people have been displaced and mistreated through the course of time, through the separation from their from kinship groups, land and the stolen generation. This has resulted in the connection to their dreaming lost, misconnection and loss of their sacred sites and traditional food from their land. As a consequence of the stolen generation, many aboriginal children were deprived of their parents, families, spirituality, language from their land and their cultural identity. All of these aspects contribute to the continuing effect of dispossession on Aboriginal spiritualities.

Devising a scheme that is beneficial to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and the communities is complicated as you will need to deliver the services that you are providing in a creative and flexible manner. By involving the Indigenous community in the planning and the implementation of the programs

The Australian Aboriginal League Assess the impact of the Australian Aboriginal League in improving the rights and freedoms of Aboriginals in Australia The Australian Aboriginal League, established in 1934, organised to shed light on the unjust treatment and inequality towards the Indigenous Australians. William Cooper, a man from Cummeragunga, started the league,

Impacts of Social Environments and Culture in Relation to Aboriginal Peoples The social determinants of health are arguably more important than the biological determinants of health in determining what the health of an individual will look like through their lifetime. There are many social determinants of health such as culture, disability, income, education and social environment but these detrainments do not impact a person’s life individually. Social determinants do not work in isolation rather they indicate that a number of factors and or determinants of heath determine the health and the quality of life of individuals; in Richard Wagmese’s Ragged Company, social environments and culture are two social determinants of health that work off

These are individuals whose ancestors migrated into Canada many years ago such as the Asians, Africans and Europeans who have been living the reserves (Falah-Hassani et al., 2015, P. 7). Statistics by LIM and LICO show that about 20% individuals who are sub origins are poor compared to the 35% 10 years ago this reduction in poverty trend among the off-reserve Aboriginals is due to the fact that most of them have acquired formal education placing them in better positions of getting better paying jobs (Curtis and Rybczynski, 2016, P.

There are a wide range of resources available in the state of Victoria for teachers to use when implementing strategies for working with Indigenous children. A local resource that could be used in my future classroom to promote effective strategies when including the traditional Aboriginal languages is the Aboriginal Languages and Cultures Victoria website that has a booklet that can be used in conjunction with the Elders of the community to help educators become familiar with the dialects of the Western Kulin, Western Victoria nation (Blake, 2011). An example of one of the pages has been included in the appendix (see appendix one). Furthermore, I would collaborate with the students, families and community to best address their needs. This

Aboriginal groups in Canada have been inhabitants of these lands long before any other arrived. Yet, these groups have been and are still disadvantaged in the political sphere, continuing to be severely underrepresented in Canadian governmental institutions. The Government of Canada needs to implement governmental arrangements that will meet the unique needs of Aboriginal groups, with responsiveness to their particular political, historical, and social circumstances (Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada, 2010). With section 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982, the definition of the Aboriginal inherent right of self-government has become a focus among advocates and members of Aboriginal society, as the constitution recognizes existing

Most of the health services are not accessible for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people which is a disadvantage as they are only meant for non-Indigenous people. As, sometimes because most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live in remote areas than non-Indigenous people. Therefore, not all the health

I believe it isn’t fair for the Aboriginal tribe to have their right to kill the western spiky-tailed possum just because of their culture. As the possum has already previously been a critically threatened species and has had hard work put towards bring them back, it would be unfair to allow aborigines have the right to hunt them. There are many other species that are not protected that they can hunt for the purpose of bringing back their culture and for food.

1. The rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to own and control their cultural heritage, and their rights and interests in how they are portrayed (in images, text or the like), must at all times be respected and protected. Proper consultation processes with appropriate cultural authorities should always be followed and approvals and permissions sought accordingly.