Indigenous Australians

As health professionals, we must look beyond individual attributes of Indigenous Australians to gain a greater understanding and a possible explanation of why there are such high rates of ill health issues such as alcoholism, depression, abuse, shorter life expectancy and higher prevalence of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and obesity in our indigenous population. Looking at just the individual aspects and the biomedical health model, we don’t get the context of Aboriginal health. This

In light of the historical event of Indigenous Australian land rights and the affect on the lives of Indigenous Australians, I will outline a brief history of the major events that impacted the land rights movement, analyse the nature of these and impacts of these events. Reflect on the relevance of educators having an understanding of the Land rights movement. Present and summarise the arguments that support the teaching and learning of Indigenous Australian languages in early childhood education

the government wanted to create a uniform white Australian culture (Australians Together, n.d.). Thus they implemented the Assimilation policy wherein Indigenous people were to be ceased to exist while half-castes (half Indigenous and half another nationality) were encouraged to live with the White Community (Australians Together, n.d.). It was assumed that the implementation of the Assimilation policy was because they thought that the Indigenous people would enjoy living the Western way. However

The Stolen Children had a major impact on Indigenous Australians because thousands of children were taken from their families, abused and the impacts have stayed with them for their whole life. Stolen generation is a period of Australia’s history that ruined the lives of so many Indigenous Australians and created a gap in Aboriginal Culture, where the traditions and knowledge of their heritage is endangered of being forgotten. The Stolen Generation is the generation of children that were taken

MR Hon Peter Dutton MP Minister for Health Australian Government Department of Health Sirius Building, Furzer Street, Woden Town Centre Canberra ACT 2601, Australia Dear Mr Dutton: Thank you for taking time to read my letter. As a nursing student of University of Technology Sydney, I studied contemporary indigenous subject this semester. In this letter I want to illustrate 3 main social determinants of health that impact indigenous Australian health which I found and analysed during my recently

Australian aboriginals are a group of people who are deemed to be the indigenous occupants of Australia. The Australian High Court appreciated them to share a common as well as biological ancestry as Australia's original occupants (de Plevitz, & Croft, 2003). There has however been a lot of ignorance with reference to this group of people more so from the Australians. This has mostly been due to ignorance of these people with most arguments and opinions based on myths (Morphy, & Morphy, 1984, p.459-478)

not allow for the aboriginal peoples to vote. In 1850 Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia all passed individual state voting laws. Queensland and western Australia specifically prevented indigenous Australians from voting. Whereas South Australia allowed for all adult south Australians to vote. In 1901 the commonwealth specifically stated that any aboriginal person unless already enrolled in south Australia could not be enrolled and therefore were not able to vote in federal or state

It is no secret that aboriginal Australian people have experienced endless racism and significant disadvantage throughout the centuries in Australia. We are often quick to recognise that some of the worst acts of discrimination in history happened in other countries, for example segregation in the U.S, the apartheid in south Africa and the holocaust in Germany, however one of the worst cultural and physical genocides happened right here in Australia, and today many of us choose to ignore the ongoing

Indigenous Australians have faced many changes to their original life style, with numerous policies being brought in. These policies had an incredible affect on how the indigenous Australians lived. The policies inflicted on the indigenous Australians varied widely and had numerous impacts. The policies of assimilation, protection and integration had mainly negative impacts on the community, causing loss of identity, language and religion. The policies of self-determination and reconciliation, had

Introduction: This report is designed to outline and explain the benefits to both indigenous Australians and healthcare workers (specifically Radiographers) of providing culturally competent care. In radiography, like all healthcare settings culturally competent care is essential for patient comfort and experience. To provide culturally competent care one must first understand the history of the Indigenous Australians health and factors that have had an influence on it. Health care workers must be