Indigenous Australians

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…

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 1 The aim of the course is to develop knowledge and skills to work effectively with Indigenous Australians in the field of psychology. In order to do so, we need to explore concepts of culture, identity, belonging, cultural positioning, and social and emotional wellbeing. The majority of work in this course will be examining self and developing an understanding of one’s own learning needs. Individual Learning Outcomes Setting your own Learning Outcomes: Consider your…

The Australian indigenous youth are a minority of the overall Australian youth, just 4.2% of the entire youth’s population (ABS, 2012), they continue to face many daily challenges while growing up in modern Australian society. To understand the issues the indigenous youth face, the two films Yolngu Boy and Black Chicks Talking were watched. This essay will discuss the main cultural influences and how aboriginal Australians are connected by their own and western cultures, the reasons for the…

Indigenous Australians experience disproportionate levels of health, educational, employment and social disadvantages compared to non-Indigenous Australians. The three periods in history I have chosen to outline are colonization, segregation and assimilation. These policies resulted in the disruption to families, communities and culture contributing significantly to many challenges facing Indigenous people today. Colonisation significantly affected Aboriginal people’s lives due to the…

Health not only indicates the physical health which should being well, but also the mental health and social (World Health Organization, 1948 ; Reily et al., 2013). Non-indigenous Australian may identify some behaviours and habits may bring out the negative outcome in physical health, like smoking and drinking. However, Australian indigenous may consider smoking and drinking are a part of culture and social behaviours for them, those behaviours can bring out the positive outcome in social and…

century the Indigenous Australians faced a lot of issues like health, education, unemployment, poverty and crime. Initially these people faced identity problems and the children of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were forcibly removed from their families by the federal and State government till 1970. Age standardisation was used when they compared Indigenous and non-Indigenous Austrians because the population of the Indigenous Austrians was much younger than the non-Indigenous…

Yagan was an indigenous Australian warrior from the noongar people who lived in the South west region of Western Australia. Which is Perth now. He was the son of Midgeroroo. He was born on 1795 in western Australia and died on the 11 July 1833 in Belhus. He was buried on Everton Cemetery, Liverpool. The relationship between Yagan who was part of aboriginals and British people was very complicated. Yagan was 35 years old in 1829 when British settlers landed in the area and established the Swan…

racial inequality events of all time and Indigenous Australians have continued to fight for their land ever since.The first Aboriginal political organisation was formed in the 1920’s. Two of the most well known aboriginal organisations would be the Australian Aborigines League (AAL) and the Aborigines ' Progressive Association (APA). These organisations played a massive role in the movement for Indigenous Australian rights. As many of these Indigenous Australians fought for what they believed…

Health disadvantages experienced by Indigenous Australians are considered to be historical in origin, but the endurance of the disadvantages can be put down to the modern structural and social factors, embodied in what have being termed the ‘social determinants of health’. Indigenous Australians experiences a greater rate of health problems and worse health outcomes then the non-Indigenous community. For non-Indigenous Australians the important social determinants of health are feeling safe,…

with regards to a national examination on the reconciliation of Indigenous Australians, the major religious traditions in Australia have all contributed to the area of Aboriginal welfare and acknowledged the adversity and maltreatment they have endured at the hands of white culture. For example, Christian churches and the Islamic councils have played an integral part in the long process of reconciliation with Indigenous Australians since the recognition of Aboriginal mistreatment post WW2.…