From my personal experience with my ex-partner who is an Indigenous Australian he struggled with his cultural identity and the modern identity for young Aboriginal boys in western Sydney. He had an expectation to follow his ancestor’s traditions but he was unable to find a way to integrate his culture into a paid occupation.…
In the article “Improve Aboriginal Health through Oral History,” which was published in the Toronto Star on Sunday, May 2, 2010, the author Nicholas Keung discusses the childhood of aboriginal in residential school and its effect on the healthy relationships.…
Noel Pearson’s ‘An Australian History for us all’ discusses his approach to trying to solve some of the most systemic problems facing Australian Aboriginals today. Through the uses of various language techniques and context, Pearson’s speech details the struggles of the relationship between the first European settlers and Aboriginal Australians.…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia are substantially over-represented in the criminal justice system. This is caused by an interplay of complex historical and contemporary factors including dispossession of land, structural disadvantage, systemic racism, intergenerational poverty and trauma, over-policing, substance misuse and mental illness, tough-on-crime policies and the chronic under-funding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal and interpreter services.…
To explore three key priorities to improve lives of Aboriginals, I first introduce how the government improved educational outcomes for Aboriginals and then talk about how they ensured and supported Aboriginals’ economic participation. Thirdly, I present how the government grew the healthy and safe community.…
Jean Lafrance and Don Collins’ article titled, “Residential Schools and Aboriginal Parenting: Voices of Parents”, elaborates pellucidly “the effect that residential schools had on [aboriginal parents’] parenting”. It seems, according to the article, predominant that ‘[aboriginal children] were treated very badly right from the beginning.’ Lafrance and Collins suggest that the establishment of residential schools has deprived of aboriginal children’s own culture. In residential schools, aboriginal children cannot get any care from their parents. Essentially, they lose attachment - the most essential emotional tie - between their parents and them: they are not able to find anyone comfortable, familiar, or responsive. Specifically, Lafrance and…
I have worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Alice Springs, Weipa, Innisfail, Broome and Adelaide. I am a current member of the Reconciliation Advisory Committee for the Campbelltown City Council and passionately believe that reconciliation is the responsibility of every Australian. I have over sixteen-years experience working directly with culturally and linguistically diverse community members and have gained a sound understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture. I possess excellent management, community engagement, research and communication skills and strongly believe the experiences I have gained from previous work roles, along with my desire to advocate reconciliation, makes me perfectly suited…
Why was the 1967 referendum significant in the fight for aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?…
Aboriginal adult education participation is significantly lower than those of non-Aboriginal people in Canada. Literacy, high school completion, training, and post secondary education engagement in the Aboriginal adult community is increasing but statistics indicate that Aboriginal people are completing high school and post secondary education at rates as low as one third of that of non-Aboriginal people. The barriers Aboriginal people are faced with when returning to school have been studied by a number of researchers over the past two decades. By exploring the research over the past twenty years about Aboriginal adult education non-completion and examining the divide between societal or systems barriers and individual or personal barriers, recommended strategies to overcome barriers and the best practices to create equity in access to education and completion can be identified and implemented. Like the equinox, the differences between Aboriginal adult success in education and training and non-Aboriginal success in education and training is like night and day. The balance between these differences can benefit Aboriginal adult learners by seeing the barriers as opportunities to support Aboriginal individual families and communities to share responsibility to create a future in education where Aboriginal education is respected and individuals are successful.…
Trudgen R (2000) Why warriors lie down and die: towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact: djambatj mala. Darwin: Aboriginal Resource and Development Services Inc.…
An individual’s personal background carries a big influence on the way that they learn. Aboriginal students are disadvantaged in the current schooling system as it differs so much from what they…
There are many effects of British colonisation on Indigenous Australians. One of the worst impacts was the loss of land. The land is the sole provider of food, medicine and other basic needs to Indigenous Australians. It is also the main part of their spiritual and cultural beliefs.…
The health of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared to the non-Indigenous population is significantly poorer (Wieland 2014, p. 12). The “Closing the Gap” campaign aims to create generational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality (Wieland 2014, p. 12). This essay will discuss the Aboriginal And Torres Strait health reforms, factors that impact on their health and wellbeing and strategies that allow protection against adversity. This essay will also discuss examples of childhood services available, targeted interventions to improve health and wellbeing in their early years and rationales and actions the Registered Nurse can use to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families when providing health care. Approaches to communication, examples of how the nurse can work collaboratively with families and health care professionals and how to ensure health care is compatible with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders concept of family will also be discussed in this essay.…
During these years, the children have grown a special bond of love with their family. When they are put in a new environment, like that of a residential school, they are bewildered because they deeply miss their family. Finally, residential schools should not be continued because of knowledge. Aboriginal children are accustomed to what they are taught at home. For at least four years, they have used their proper language for everything that they have done, and have learned aspects of life differently that what is taught at residential schools. Learning different facts is very confusing for them and is difficult for them to adapt to. In conclusion, residential schools should not be continued because of common practices, family, and…
Rowse, Tim (2000). Indigenous citizenship: The politics of communal capacities. Change: Transformations in Education 3.1: 1-16.…