Indigenous peoples of Oceania

Australians was 669 000, of which the majority was aged between 0-24 (ABS 2016b). Improving physical health of young Indigenous Australians is, therefore, essential to promote population health and public health. This report will employ the modified national indicator framework of young people’s health and wellbeing (AIHW 2010) to provide a comprehensive overview of young Indigenous Australians’ current major physical health status and argue the need for priority direction. Thereafter, it…

fell in a 24-hour period, the highest amount recorded since rainfall records began in 1877. Graph? There are currently several primary schools, 8 high schools and 1 university around the Albany area. The population as of the 2011 census was 30,656 people living in Albany. We decided we should visit the much praised beach called Two People’s Bay. It was beautiful and the white sand was crunchy and the blue-green water was so clear that we could even see the fish swimming around in the seaweed.…

Through my initial research, I observed that the Gulf Coast Olmec culture is generally accepted in the scholarly community as the first Mesoamerican civilization through its display of sociopolitical complexity. However, there remains quite a considerable amount of debate regarding how the Olmec iconography, specifically in regards to Olmec style ceramics, disseminated and interacted with neighbouring regions. Blomster et al. (2005) and Backes et al. (2012) propose that the standardized Olmec…

In Nicholas Thomas’ book Colonialism Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government, he argues that colonialism is a cultural process and not a cultural system, meaning that colonialism isn’t simply a system of overstepping a foreign culture and manipulating it into your own in the ways of politics and economics, it’s a unique relationship involving signs, metaphors, and narratives. To truly understand the process and result of colonialism, we need to recognize and acknowledge there is a…

government announced that it will assist Afghanistan in creating a more peaceful environment for the Afghan people. However, as Canada embraces international challenges, struggles remain within the peaceful nation. First Nation Chief Phil Fontaine’s criticism of the federal budget brings back the light of a hidden issue of the Canadian government: the Canadian Colonial oppression of the Aboriginal people. He lauds the federal government for failing its promise to assist Aboriginals in issues…

Introduction (110) The current health status of Indigenous Australian children and youth is poorer across a broad range of health, including physical, mental and social health, compared with non-Indigenous young people (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW] 2011). The poor health status of Indigenous young people contrasts with their holistic model of health that involves physical, mental and social well-being of the whole community (Taylor & Guerin 2014). One of the factors…

are often an untrue and unfair belief that people have on people or things. These days our world has many stereotypes, stereotypes can be considered racist, disrespectful and unacceptable. Australia has many stereotypes. All around the world people have different thoughts and opinions on Australia, through what these people think Australia get these stereotypes that change Australia’s identity. There is a whole lot of Australian stereotypes but many people do not know where we get most of them…

The history of defamation law in Australia is one which has seen multiple attempts at reform in order to create a less convoluted tort. However, there ultimately still remains a number of inconsistencies within defamation law that demonstrates a need for additional reform in Australia. This notion is highlighted by various factors contained in the recent highly publicized Australian defamation case Hockey v Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 652. In this case, Federal Treasurer Joe…

When Residential Schools Began 1870s Federal government and Plain Nations both wanted to have schooling for Aboriginal youth Aboriginal adults assumed schooling systems would help their youth transition into the new dominating society (European-Canadians) successfully in 1867 the British North America Act and in 1876 the Indian Act was published the acts obliged the government to provide education for Aboriginal youth and teach them to be economically self-sufficient government teamed with…

To engage indigenous students new ideas in education approaches include contextualization, which is linking indigenous and western knowledge systems in education. It involves incorporating aspects of indigenous perspectives and culture into schools, which aim to improve indigenous learning engagement (Matthew, Watego, Cooper & Baturo ,2005). Contextualized learning is to enable students to become fluent in a multitude of ways of knowing and to become competent in western culture as…