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Pregnancy and birth Close the gap: Indigenous Health Campaign (Australian Human Rights Commission 2016) National Maternity Services Capability Framework (Standing Council on Health and Community & Disability Services 2012) National Maternity Services Plan (Australian Health Ministers’ Conference 2010) National Evidence-Based Antenatal Care Guidelines (National Health and Medical Research Council 2011) The Close the Gap campaign is a strategy that was made by several organisations to achieve…

The Public Health issue that will be discussed in this essay is Indigenous health. In this essay, targets, strategies, policies, plans, programs, projects and resources will be examined as it deals with this public health issue. The history of the Closing the gap program will broadly be discussed as well. Closing the gap is a strategy that aims at reducing the indigenous disadvantage with respect to life expectancy, child mortality, access to early childhood educational achievement, employment…

This essay aims to highlight and critically analyse aspects of the Australian workforce. Establishing the requirements and ramifications surrounding curriculum vitae’s (‘CV’s) and how it can possibly be improved to ensure job perspectives remain on an appropriate playing field for all prospective employees. It will then highlight and discuss the ever increasingly spoken about issues surrounding romantic relationship in the workforce with correlation to the recent law reforms in the United States…

to indigenous Australians. 1.2 Parameters The parameters of the report are health and housing issues of indigenous Australians. Commonwealth and interstate governments’ actions to help indigenous are also discussed. 1.3 Definition According to Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Thesaurus (2016), indigenous is defined as “natural existing in a place or country rather than arriving from another place”. 1.4 Thesis Statement Health and housing of indigenous Australians are backward…

history of Indigenous Australians in the more distant past as well as in contemporary Australia. To be specific, the colonial history shows a typical example of institutional racism, a discriminatory limitation against ethnic groups via laws, practices, and policies (Hampton & Toombs, 2013, p. 30). At the beginning of colonisation, Europeans believed that they were superior to Indigenous people. Based on such beliefs, the colonists controlled and regulated Indigenous Australians and denied them…

The Freedom Ride was a bus tour that occurred in February of 1965, visiting regional towns in New South Wales (Informit EduTV, 2015) with the intention of drawing attention to the inequalities faced by Indigenous Australians. The Freedom Ride was organised by a group of 34 students from the University of Sydney, under the name of ‘Student Action For Aborigines’ (SAFA) and was led by one of the two Indigenous students in the group; Charles Perkins (Galligan & Roberts, 2007). These students were…

surrounded by water but yet, has many things to do and see. Best time to visit Australia is in January and to be a part, along with every other Australian, the greatest annual event that is Anzac day 25th January and Australia day that is held on January 26th. . Anzac day is a national day remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that commemorates all Australians and New Zealand’s that served and died in all war, conflict and peacemaking conflict. It The date marks the anniversary of the…

that is ruled as a solitary country. It is occasionally casually stated as an island continent and enclosed by oceans. There are over 20 million individuals residing in Australia. Australian culture is comprised of persons from a diversity of cultural, indigenous, dialectal and spiritual upbringings. Many Australians are settlers or the children of settlers. The most frequently vocalized dialect in Australia is English, and the most frequently exercised religion is Christianity, even though…

Rights and Freedoms of Indigenous Australians: 1948- It is stated on the Youth for Human Rights webpage After the Second World War, wife of Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, led a committee of people to write up a special document that stated the basic human rights that everyone in the world should have. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the general assembly of the United Nations (UN) on the 10th of December, 1948 according to the Australian Human Rights Commission.…

The health status of Indigenous Australians is devastatingly worse in contrast to the status of Non-Indigenous Australians today. Largely these inequities arise from social economic, lifestyle and social factors, including substandard living conditions, exposure to violence, poorer rates of education, discrimination, racism and high rates of unemployment. In 2013, 76.4% of the working-age population of Non-indigenous Australians (aged 15 to 64) were employed, whereas it was only 55.8% of the…