Australian Qualifications Framework

Although Aboriginal peoples inhabited in Australia continuously for over forty thousands years, Australian Indigenous Studies or “the study of and about the Indigenous peoples” (Nakata, 2006) is a relatively new discipline in the country’s academy. Since the introduction of the subject considered the first one relating to this matter at tertiary level in 1968 (Bourke and Bourke, 2006, p. 101), Indigenous Studies has entered into mainstream education and has now become “an expansive field of…

following research essay will critically discuss and examine what the value of the australian law if it is based on a violent foundation? The essay will delve into the history of colonisation in order to justify the current predicament the country is in and the displacement the indigenous people of australia still feel today while acknowledging the praiseworthy efforts to make change. Despite the poor history of the australian law it is ever revolutionising and we should not disregard its value…

relationship the Aboriginal people had with the land prior to colonisation and provides a basis for the ongoing impacts that the disruption to the relationship has had on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. The film also underlines the racism projected towards Indigenous Australians and the power and superiority that the Early Settlers made apparent over the Indigenous people resulting in disagreement and atrocity causing banishment of the Indigenous…

Many cultures don’t traditionally use written words to communicate cultural and family history. Australian Aboriginals tell stories of ‘The Dreamtime’ to explain how and why things have happened in their history. The Chinese have stories of Dragons that protect the people from drought or flood. Then you have written stories of the Bible that are handed…

The idea of sports has been around since humankind. Ancient Greece introduced the Olympic Games in 776 BC which still to this very day encourages athletes to train for early on in their lives (“’History’”). Cristiano Ronaldo for example was only ten when he was deemed “A phenomenon—a kid who ate, slept and drank the game” (Christiano). George Jr, or better known as “Babe Ruth”, was only seven when he was introduced into baseball (Babe). How do children grow up to be talented in a sport? The…

Walls, M. L., Hautala, D., & Hurley, J. (2013). “Rebuilding our community”: Hearing silenced voices on Aboriginal youth suicide. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(1), 47–72. http://doi.org/10.1177/1363461513506458 This study seeks to share the voices of community members from three separate First Nations reserves in Manitoba in relation to their experiences with youth suicide, its potential root causes and its impact on the community. Methods used were qualitative analyses of focus groups with…

Current Australian culture boasts its diverse equality in a time of multiculturalism across the country building a large minority of citizens. But many contradictions to this exist in the law and in communities. A large issue is the inequality thrust upon indigenous youth in Australia, being some of the last living descendants of the original citizens of this nation, it seems logical that they would receive the same treatment as every other citizen of Australia let alone the tools needed to…

Racial Bias It would be hard to say that people are born into their prejudice, but rather form their prejudice towards other races from a young age due to influences from their peer groups or parental values and even societal values. Jane Elliott’s classic ‘Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed’ experiment has challenged people 's formed racial biases (Elliott, Golenbock and Talmadge, 2008). This will be discussed in more detail below. In order to understand racial bias one must understand what racism is. It…

This expands into Social Determinants of ‘mixed blood’ Aboriginals who until the 1967 referendum did not have the same rights of what Australian did, this including the right to “vote, marry whom ever the chose, move to where ever they chose, own property where ever they chose, receive the same pay for the same work, this being enlisted and ruled by the Australian constitution. (Reference) This had huge repercussions on Aboriginal health, working opportunities, education and equal opportunities…

and Fly-In Fly-Out Coordinator is funded by the Australian Government and working with Job Services Australia to implement employment training pathways for job seekers. The Remote Jobs and Communities Program introduce people residing in remote regions for more sustainable and consolidated approach which include a wide range of employment services. (Australian Government, 2012) Moreover, the Queensland Government, in conjunction with the Australian Government, has initiated the Cape York Welfare…