There is a populace of 18 million in Australia with Indigenous Australians making up roughly one percent of the Australian population. Due to this, the closest that a non-Indigenous Australians will come to have contact with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person is through representation in the Australian media. Most media stories are viewed as one sided or racist with even the Prime Minster Tony Abbott making comments that it is a ‘lifestyle choice’ for the Indigenous peoples to live the
Define and describe the concept of Human Rights and Bill of Rights Human rights are held by all people equally and universally from the time they are born until the day they die. You cannot lose these rights any more than you can cease being human. In claiming these rights, everyone also accepts the responsibility not to infringe on the rights of others and to support those whose rights are abused or denied. These rights are enshrined in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
'deviants' are individuals who are somehow less capable, less socially responsible, less adjusted, and consequently less useful to society than their more fortunate, upright and 'normal' fellows ( Social Deviance in Australia, p 4). In the case of Aboriginal drinking, alcohol is the main source of criminalisation and incarceration. This public labelling gives the individual an entirely new status- one which tends to dominate the person's self conception. Once this assumes a 'master status' it becomes
extremely important to for our government to provide a healthy environment for its citizens to live in, and it is just as important for our government to provide the public with adequate information and access to healthier choices. It will be explained why there is such a rising prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Canada by looking at the fundamental differences between healthy and unhealthy environments and the underlying factors that cause an individual to be more vulnerable to diabetes. Through a critical
ways of life. Another important reason of why I believe these texts have the ability to shape our interpretations of them are because of the pivotal nature and characteristics that the speeches hold in our past that has developed and crawled into our future. Faith Bandler’s speech entitled “Faith, Hope and Reconciliation” is a text that I perceive to be considered as timeless and still relevant in today's society. Faith Bandler is a renowned Aboriginal activist who was instrumental in the 1967
a result is difficult to adequately define. Slavery in its most elementary form can be understood as the state or condition of being a slave; a civil relationship whereby one person has absolute power over another and controls his livelihood and liberty, There is an argument for which many people are divided over, whether Aboriginal people were slaves at the pastoral stations in the North west or just employees in slave like conditions. The main distinctions between the Aboriginal people being
repository of knowledge, an expression of culture, and a symbolic embodiment of a way of life, the loss of a language speaks for itself. Although some Aboriginal languages are on the brink of extinction in Canada, regrettably, not many people are listening to the last cries of the voices that are quickly vanishing. I will explore the reasons why this is the case. Firstly I will delve into the roots of language, as a vehicle by which the essence of each particular culture comes into coherence in
principle expressed throughout Aboriginal societies. Outline and illustrate the importance of this fundamental concept in the economic, social, spiritual and political spheres of Aboriginal life (refer to reciprocity in the index to Edwards 2005). The word ‘reciprocity’1 conjures up a feel good image of ‘caring and sharing’ (Schwab 1995: 8). However according to Peterson (1993: 861) there is a darker more sinister side to this word when applied to Indigenous Australians. He defines it as ‘demand sharing’
the perpetual intergenerational trauma transmission. Besides alcohol, domestic violence can play a detrimental role in mother-daughter relations. Bombay et al. also depict, “Aboriginal children were more likely to experience childhood abuse and neglect, if raised in single parent households” (2009). This means, aboriginal female adolescents who are abused or neglected tend to be those who grow up with only one parent. In many contemporary societies, single parent households are usually headed by
groups of people. Poverty in Canada is defined as poor quality of food, sleeping in poor quality housing, parks, or city streets, and on a daily basis it is difficult to make decisions on what is best for you and your family. Living in poverty will decrease your life span and health, and could lead to criminal offenses just to stay alive. Aboriginal people, immigrants from other countries, people with disabilities, single parents especially women, and injured workers are more susceptible to living in