Australian Aboriginal culture

Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). The Australian Government has produced documents that outline areas where Indigenous students are falling behind, ways in which the Government aims to increase Indigenous students’ academic achievement. The National Curriculum includes cross-curriculum priorities known as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Histories and Cultures, which enables Indigenous students to see themselves, their identities and their cultures building their self-esteem and…

status of Indigenous Australian children and youth is poorer across a broad range of health, including physical, mental and social health, compared with non-Indigenous young people (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW] 2011). The poor health status of Indigenous young people contrasts with their holistic model of health that involves physical, mental and social well-being of the whole community (Taylor & Guerin 2014). One of the factors contributing to Aboriginal child health…

What do Australians stand for? Is it that all Muslims should go back to their home country because they are terrorists? Or that equality is an important part of our country and something that we should strive for? I believe that a reasonable percentage of Americans would agree with the first one but here in Australia we strive for a country with equality. To get equality I believe justice, culture and opportunity are a part of what Australians stand for and a first step to equality, you don’t…

question of “Why is it that Aboriginal people who have ‘mixed blood’ are the ones who succeed in life” will be deconstructed and explored in different sections and headings. Study and research will be focused on ‘mixed blood’ and the stereotypes that accompany the word and its culture. Further deconstruction will look into what it means to succeed and how it relates to the question posed that will be followed by what the social determinants of ‘mixed blood Aboriginals consist of and how equity…

Assimilation in Australia had a significant impact on the indigenous population for many generations and although the Australian Government presumed that through assimilation, indigenous people would enjoy and encounter the same standards of living as the white European population once they had adopted European customs, this was not the case for many indigenous people who are known as the stolen generation. Regardless of the government attempts to improve standards of living and reviews in…

group is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. In Australia, there are two completely different cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and there are also over 250 unique languages spread across the Indigenous land. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have individual societies and cultures but their experiences with oppression, dispossession and colonization in their home country shows quite a strong bond between the two cultures. The Aboriginal and…

goes beyond the subject matter. Aboriginal curriculum content denotes the obligatory components within the history part of the Australian Curriculum. This may encompass comprehending the current issues that the indigenous people experience which may be influenced by the past government strategies. It as well involves recognizing the implications and differences of the different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ethnicities. A strong method of integrating aboriginal perspectives is to…

Juries can often be biased and the judgement can be swayed due to racial, sexual, economic or gender discrimination. Aboriginal Australians are especially victims of bias within the courts. In the case Joan Martin vs Homeswest [1997], involved the well respected Aboriginal artist, Joan Martin, and her children being kicked out from her home where they lived for 17 years. Homesweet evicted the family due to neighbours complaints of anti-social…

Aboriginal History – The Fight for Rights & Freedoms Kiran Ross 1. Explain the historical background to this conference – how have Aboriginal people been treated since 1900? The treatment of Indigenous Australians by the government has been an issue of controversy since the settlement of the White Europeans in the 1700’s. Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders are being continually misrecognized, mistreated and continually being forced to do things unwillingly. Since the 1900’s Aboriginal…

Indigenous Australians are significantly disadvantaged in modern Australian society. It exists because white Australian public believe that Australia is a post-racial society and claim to be anti-discrimination while ignoring increased incarceration rates, deaths in custody, and lasting effects from political wrongs committed against indigenous Australians. The sociological imagination is a concept used to see how situations in society occur and play out based on how people differ in terms of…