Australian Public Service

It has been established that social disadvantage, including low socioeconomically status, is associated with mild, moderate, or even severe mental health disorders in young Indigenous Australians. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), mental health is “a state of wellbeing in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and, is able to…

Embassy (1972), the Aboriginal Medical Service in Melbourne and the formation of the Aboriginal Legal Service in Redfern (1973), Aboriginal Delegation in China (1974), the creation of films for the Cannes Film Festival based on black Australia in Europe (1978), setting up health services for aboriginals (1981), Commonwealth Games protests (1982), the bicentennial celebrations protests (1982), directing the Aboriginal Arts Board (1983-1986), instituting medical services in Redfern (1988) and so…

subjectivity in much the same way that Australian gov - ernments had denied equal treatment before the law to cer - tain classes of immigrants from the 1920s to the 1940s. In the twenty-first century the practice of granting fixed term temporary protection visas to asylum seekers in place of per - manent visas bears the very same mark of rendering a cer - tain class of immigrant bodies as potentially available to be singled out for discriminatory treatment by the Australian state as did the…

land thousands of years before the presence of Englishman, still aren 't treated equally as non indigenous Australians. In "the land of fair go", their life expectancy is still and average 13.5 years shorter than of non indigenous Australians - a number which is decreasing much too slowly. Aboriginal communities are being closed down, cutting to funding; electricity, legal and medical services, and water, forcing aboriginal people to move out of where they have lived for thousands to years in…

Australian media has always been a prevalent force associated with Indigenous Australians. Ever since the mass spread of information through media was invented, it has been used as both a negative and positive way to promote certain agendas. Social media is also a mechanism that is changing the way Indigenous Australians interact and use media, and has had an important impact on Indigenous Peoples around the world. Despite many changes for the better in regards to how the media is used to…

compared to the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland, which have 57% and 42% (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016). Many teachers currently employed in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory are from interstate and “white middle-class urban environments with little little of life in urban setting” rather than Indigenous teachers from the community itself. This is…

Public Health Issue Cardiovascular Disease is at a high level of prevalence in the Indigenous Populations of Australia Video This video outlines the health issues that Indigenous Populations in Australia face and describes the fact that Indigenous groups on average die earlier than other Australians. It focuses on multiple reasons for this statistic not just the prevalence of CVD however is interesting to look at to introduce the realities of the health crisis facing Indigenous Australians. It…

Australia had a significant impact on Australians attitudes at that time towards indigenous rights. The main points being discussed will be how Charles Perkins and the Freedom Ride impacted society in the 1960’s. The freedom ride was a way of exposing the discrimination against Aboriginals. Their purpose was to make people aware of this situation. There were arguments both for and against the Freedom Rides in 1965. Although it helped benefit…

Australia is a first world country with easy access to health care compulsory education housing and support services this is not the case for Aboriginal people living in remote and rural areas people in these communities are denied basic human rights Aboriginal people in rural communities suffer from inadequate healthcare, housing and education leading to high mortality rates, substandard living conditions and poverty. functionalism considers education as a part of a working organism.…

aspects of society such as history and education, government and policies, and the media itself will be considered and explored. Stereotypes, as settler constructs of Indigenous Australians, have twisted and distorted how settlers view Aboriginal peoples, and these fashioned perspectives are prevalent throughout Australian history. One of the overarching stereotypes regarding aboriginal peoples is that they are ‘lesser’ than the white man, as seen in this scientific report by a Cambridge…