Study of Australian Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Education. Caroline Marguerite Baker Student‚ Swinburne University of Technology‚ Australia INTRODUCTION Australia has a prominent discontinuity between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous life expectancy‚ educational achievement and employment opportunities. (Coag.gov.au. 2014) There is a pressing need for an Australian Indigenous Education Reform. This need for reform is especially necessary in remote and northern‚ socially disadvantaged Australian communities
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The Australian Government’s assimilation policy was a policy of absorbing Aboriginal people into white society through the process of removing children from their families. The idea of this policy was to breed out and abolish the aboriginal society and to assimilate them into the white community. The impact that this policy had on the indigenous Australians was very negative as many children were forcibly taken from their families. One way the assimilation policy impacted the aboriginals was by
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Essay Health outcomes of Aboriginal Australians are a major focus in healthcare system. There is a huge burden of illness within Indigenous communities in comparison with Australia’s non-Indigenous counterparts. It could be explained in part by the process of colonization and past government policies that continually threaten the health outcomes of Indigenous communities. However‚ contemporary governments now claim to be implementing strategies and plans addressing past wrongs in the healthcare
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Aboriginals lived in Australia for about 40‚000 years before European settlement began in 1788. During that time they developed an amazing culture all based on survival. They found all of their food from the land. They developed an amazing religion that is based on the fact that everything was created in the Dreamtime‚ the time before time began. The Aboriginals connect their origins with the Dreamtime. There were hundreds of different tribes around Australia‚ all with unique languages. Artwork was
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An Analysis of the Social Gradient of Health in Relation to the Australian Indigenous population “The demonstration of a social gradient of health predicts that reducing inequality itself has health benefits for all‚ not simply for the impoverished or deprived minorities within populations.” (Devitt‚ Hall & Tsey 2001) The above quote from Devitt‚ Hall and Tsey’s paper is a relatively well grounded and well researched statement which draws on contemporary theoretical sociological concepts to
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AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE- 2 For my paper I have selected six Australian poems and shown the different aspects of the Australian way of life. ‘THE FIRST AUSTRALIANS’ By Troy Hopkins: The First Australians is a poem expressing Troy Hopkins ’ hatred towards white settlers because of how they claimed Australia and labeled the natives ’Aboriginal ’. He called it an invasion‚ not a settlement and he says that the natives were the first ones there so they shouldn ’t call them "aboriginal"
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Journal To what extent does the reputation of foreign cultures in texts‚ contribute to a cultural divide in Australian culture today? Abstract: This paper explores to what extent the representation of foreign cultures on texts contributes to a cultural divide in Australian society today. In this paper it is argued that the portrayal of foreign cultures in texts greatly influences Australian society and contributes to generating a cultural divide. Through a close examination of Jeanie Baker’s‚ picture
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because of Federation? This question will be answered below; For the Indigenous Australians living in Australia at the time of Federation was a hard thing because they didn’t have many rights‚ if any. It was hard for them to do things that most other white people do on an everyday basis. For example‚ they were not given the right to vote and have the same rights as white Australians in 1965. Also in 1908 elderly Australians were given the
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Topic: Discuss how Australian government improves the lives of Aboriginal nowadays and how this promotes Australian cultural diversity. Introduction: Aboriginals are indigenous Australians and their ancestors were the earliest humans who occupied Australia. They lived in Australia before British colonization. (Morten Rasmussen et al.‚ 2011) They have the oldest ongoing culture in the world and they could adapt and change with the environment. World’s first usage of stones was invented by Aborigines
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South Australian Matriculation Programme (SAMP) The South Australian Matriculation (SAM) program is an internationally recognized 1 year matriculation program that is administered by the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia (SSABSA)‚ a statutory authority of the South Australian government. Students who successfully complete the SAM program are accredited with the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) and provided with a university entrance score that is used by
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