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    Throughout this unit I learned about the cultural loss that Indigenous Australians suffered, which lead to poor health outcomes along with poor social, emotional and mental wellbeing amongst Indigenous Australian population. Culture is part of our identity, which makes us who we are. Therefore culture is an important aspect of each individual. Culture is a unique way to make sense of the world; it is both material and ideological (Eckermann et al., 2010). Culture impacts all part of life including;

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    non-Indigenous Australians. These two initiatives are strikingly different in the way they were conceived and implemented. The Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) was made and delivered in haste without any consultation with Indigenous Australians and some Indigenous leaders in the Northern Territory communities seeing it as an attack on Indigenous Australians (Maddison, S, 2009). The NTER showed a top down mentality that caused a greater divide for Indigenous Australians leaving many feeling

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    other group in Australia. The Australian Bureau Of Statistic (ABS) estimates that there are between 418,800 and 476,900 indigenous people in Australia (Better Health Channel: Aboriginal Health Issues ). Improving the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has been a longstanding challenge for governments in Australia. Indigenous people as a whole, experience disproportionate levels of disadvantage and poorer health compared with other Australians, there is a definite relationship

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    Australian Film Industry 1 Era before World War I Australian film industry had good and bad times or 'boom and bust' (Stratton, 1990) in period of last 100 years and that is why it can be called a fragile industry. If we look at the history, era before 1914, we find out that Australia was counted as one of the biggest film making countries of the world. This Australian film industry took the honor of being first to produce world's first feature film in 1906, The Story of the Kelly Gang. The

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    Understanding how the historical factors have influenced Indigenous Australians helps operationalise the sociological imagination. The history of Indigenous people is important as many of the disadvantages they endure today is connected to the past. A historical awareness influences individuals to understand how organisations and institutions impact the health and wellbeing of a minority (Germov, 2002).The existence of Indigenous Australians well begins before the European invasion and colonisation of Australia

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    Global Community Assessment: Australia

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    It has been noted that these health problems are shown to be a direct component of the disadvantages experienced by this population. Steps are being taken to correct these inequalities by varies agencies and advocacy groups ("Australian indigenous healthinfonet," 2013). Being a nurse and in Australia has quite a few differences of that in modern-day United States. The relationship with doctors is more informal, and yet the nurse is given less autonomy in care and decisions that

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    The 1920s was an economic growth period for American companies and businesses. One of the key ways of making money during this period was to buy stocks and shares. As with consumer goods such as washing machines and kitchenware’s, there was the option of buying stocks and shares on credit, which meant that purchasing shares on the stock market was available to almost everyone. Thousands of Americans rushed in to gain benefit from the share market with many using their life savings or borrowed money

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    barrier between Aboriginals and Australians. Ultimately, promoting the rights of indigenous people and acknowledging their significance to the Australian community in way that fosters human equality. What led Australia to discriminate against Aboriginals? The fundamental factors that led Australian people to discriminate against Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, were their opposing skin colour and cultural values which were not understood by white Australians. This resulted in the segregation

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    English- Formal Writing Match Fixing in Tennis Millions of aspiring young athletes worldwide look up to sporting stars as heroes and the fact that many of these ‘heroes' are match fixing is putting the sporting world to shame. Although many other sports have been known for these match-fixing scandals over the years the sport that I will be covering today is tennis, with the amount of match fixing in tennis being a shocking three times greater than every other sport put together. The three points

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    Aboriginals differently away from the battlefield? During WW1’s battle of Gallipoli, the Western Front and the battle for Palestine, everyone in the ANZACs was treated equally and as mates including Aboriginal soldiers. They fought side by side with the Australians and earned the right to be called ‘mate’ but the tragic story is they were faced with hatred and discrimination once the soldiers returned home. The community, abused them, denied the Aboriginal service men from their veteran payments, children

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