Australian Aborigines

first step by acknowledging the past and laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians.” By Kevin Rudd. From the earliest 19s to 1970s, a number of native children were vigorously taken away from their families due to a number of different government policies. The generation of children who were separated from their families under these policies became to be known as the “Stolen Generation”. The Australian government kidnapped indigenous children in an attempt to assimilate them into…

services in remote areas (National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organization). Hence, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) (p.9), has announced in 2010, one of their priorities is to improve Aboriginal health by understanding their history and culture and defy racism in GPs practices. There are three main determinants associated with the poor health of Aborigines. First, mental health, which considered a fundamental component…

C.J. Dennis’ poetry in A Book for Kids (1922) exhibits a text that was emblematic of 1920s Australian literature and values. I have transformed the poem Old Black Jacko into an interview with a female indigenous health care worker in contemporary society. The base text is a true representation of the values, and thus the literature, of 1920s Australia – a society struggling with the assimilation of the native people into white society after colonialism and Federation, the social organisation…

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (AIH 2015) reported that Indigenous Australians account for around 3 percent of the total Australian population. Compared to the past decade, the number of Indigenous people has increased, but the life expectancy of Aborigines is 10 years shorter than non-Indigenous Australian. A group of diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, kidney diseases, respiratory and eye health and other factors negatively affect Indigenous Australians today. A…

same rights and freedoms as non-indigenous Australians. There were many events that contributed to the movement including the Wave Hill Station Walk-off, the 1967 referendum and the Aboriginal Day of Protest and mourning. However the health, social and economic difficulties facing the Aboriginal people are substantial. The reconciliation movement has countered this. Despite the failures regarding the Australian Civil rights movement, there have been…

Aboriginal people are disadvantaged in Australian society. Addressing low literacy levels within indigenous communities provides the catalyst for positive outcomes to the future of Aboriginal people. Growing numbers of indigenous Australians achieving tertiary qualifications advances academic standing, professional standing and employments opportunities for individual and the indigenous community as a whole ( Mellor and Corrigan 2004). Incorporating the fundamental ethos of Aboriginal culture…

establishing the Aboriginal Embassy protest of 1972 (Dr Edwina Howell and Professor Gary Foley, 2017). All these examples provided a worldwide voice for Aboriginal Australians, and created a new knowledge and understanding of the people and all they have lost, his work has been so positive and helpful to so many indigenous australians who have lost their public voice. No negative downfall has sprung from his work and that shows his massively positive contribution made standing up for what he is…

Aboriginal people from white people. No Sugar is a play written by Jack Davis and is about the Millimurra family’s stand against government ‘protection’ in Australia during the 1930’s. This play portrays the inequality between aboriginals and white Australians. Davis displays inequality and racism through language conventions such as emotive language, figurative language and imagery. The Help is a film directed by Taite Taylor and is about a young writer, Skeeter, who interviews African-American…

ideologies in the past still continue to have consequences in the lives of copious marginalised races of today. The stage play, No Sugar by Noongar author Jack Davis explores the endemic violence, brought upon by the exhibition of oppression by the White Australian supremacy towards the ostracised Aboriginals. No Sugar is set during the 1930s, a dark time in Australia where abusive treatment towards the Aboriginals was seen as a cultural norm. The context evokes the struggle for the Aboriginals…

Michael Charlton, a non-indigenous man, the film is reflective of the deplorable conditions the Aboriginal community endured during this dishonorable piece of Australian history. Set in 1961, the Box Ridge episode aired prior to the 1967 Referendum and displayed issues with relevance to the laws at the time. The 1960’s were a time where Aborigines had trouble in the job market,…