Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Community Analysis

Compare the effects of colonisation of Australia’s two Indigenous groupings: Australian Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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. This essay will demonstrates that how the health professionals have work together and been involved with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as well as how our communities will respond to these connections.

Archaeologists believe that aboriginals first came to Australia about 45, 000 years ago and were the only population of humans in Australia until the British invasion. There are about 500 different aboriginal groups each with their own language and territory and usually made up of several separate clans. The aboriginals of Australia are marginalised in today society. This marginalisation began right back during the British invasion where they were evicted from their own country, the stolen generation occurred and their health care, education, employment and housing was severely limited. Aboriginals generally live in poor conditions and choose unhealthy lifestyle choices

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have faced disadvantages in various areas, particularly housing. The disadvantages these people face now are the result of policies introduced by the European settlers, then the government. The policies introduced were protection, assimilation, integration and self-determination. It is hard to understand the housing disadvantages faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people if their history is not known.

Australia is one of the country that has grown to be the most diverse in the world. Many people come from different country, different ethnic background and different beliefs/religions. We want to enrich children’s experiences of diversity. At the same time we want our children to also experience, learn and explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander because they are the Australia original inhabitants.

I think it is important to learn from the Aboriginal community, especially organizations catering or supporting the victims such as The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and attending various workshops and lectures where the educator can make more connections to different resources and people. Useful actions to take would be contacting the leader of various Canadian Aboriginal organizations or presidents of societies. This would give the educator more knowledge and a first person, face-to-face meeting with the leaders or victims themselves, which are rich resources. This immersion would truly open the eyes of the educators as they learn first-hand accounts of the residential school traumas and testimonies. This could make for more effective lesson and curriculum planning because with more heart and passion, comes a more engaging, devoted, and well-prepared lesson plan or activity to really draw the learners towards these large prevailing issues. Aboriginal speakers (the victims) can be invited to the classroom to speak to the learners about their experiences and to give them a close-up, first-hand account. This would really engage and inspire the learners.

This is a submission research template conducted for a proposed new agency in the South Burnett Region. The template outlines a rationale for the services aims of being holistic and addressing social-emotional well-being and stakeholders that should be consulted in the design of the service delivery. The practice approach, model and theory that will inform the service delivery. Outlining the strategy culturally safety, to ensure cultural safe service delivery and personal and professional qualities to look for in staff. The responses have been informed by a review of the literature relating to social-emotional well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and an internet search for possible

One of the great untold truths of Australian history has been the courageous contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the Australian Defence Force. For decades this contribution was unacknowledged and their sacrifices were unmentioned at official ceremonies.” Alistair Nicholson, Reconciliation Australia (2014).

One of the six key priorities for targeted work by PHNs is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. The under-identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in mainstream health services and national health data sets is a fundamental barrier to achieving health equality for all Australians. The Indigenous population in Australia have historically had, and continue to have significantly worse health outcomes than the general Australian population.

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.

After reading the “’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Awareness” module, my curiosity in cultural safety grew, and I realized that my role as a nursing student is not just caring patients but understanding and recognition of patient’s historical, social, economic, educational and political positions within the society. As a student nurse, I believe, we need to be educated, understand and recognize how to provide safe, efficient and quality healthcare services for different cultural groups, especially for Australian indigenous people. Cultural safety movements began in New Zealand during early 1980’s (Gerlach, 2012). During that period, Maori nurses and patients began to questioned why they should uphold nursing practices that were opposite to their beliefs and customs (Gerlach, 2012). In other words, they wanted to be acknowledged and treated as equal in health care settings.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have had many impacts on their culture since European settlement in Australia. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were seen to be savages with no civilisation and as such Australia was seen as ‘Terra Nullius’. With European settlement Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders saw a loss of their land and culture, labour exploitation, introduced diseases, change of diet and a loss in their rights as a citizen and as a human being. Many laws and policies were introduced which controlled an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders life, many things for which we take for granted today. Things such as residence, employment, marriage, social and daily life were all restricted. Most notably was the laws introduced that allowed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to be forcibly removed from their families.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience social disadvantages which significantly impacts their physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual and social health. This essay analyses the impacts of the social determinants of health such as socioeconomic status, early life and psychological distress to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health which causes the wide gap in the social disadvantages experienced by the Indigenous community.

Is there information available on Indigenous Australian events happening in the community? (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, 2010)

The Indigenous youth is one of the many vulnerable populations in Australia this is due to multiple reasons such as a higher risk of poor health outcomes and inadequate care for a number of reasons for example the stolen generation and the government policy as well as the location, Indigenous youth have an increased chance of imprisonment in the past present and future due to not having higher education (not completing year 12), which is illustrated in the Australian bureau of statistics and the (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey “Aboriginal people are more likely to have been imprisoned if they had not completed Year 12 education, were unemployed, experienced financial stress, lived in crowded conditions, were