South East Queensland

The A.B Paterson College Early Childhood Centre has established a relationship with the above services in order to connect parents directly to the key person in charge, to support families towards a good outcome. These relationships assist in maintaining and fostering positive, safe and supportive community partnerships between the home and the centre. Creating such relationships builds trust with each child and their families, to the point where they are comfortable to reveal any doubts either…

A negative social attitude towards the Aboriginal communities is still prevalent today. Racism towards ATSI people is widespread in the Australian community. Individuals who have experienced discrimination need to be treated with understanding and respect. This will need to be reinforced whist working together to collaborate culturally relevant ways to bridge the gap. Until social attitudes are addressed it will impact professional relationships when delivering services and programs. Employment…

Stolen Generation Rabbit-Proof Fence Kaylie Chen From 1910s to 1970s, many indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of implementing various government policies, the policy of assimilation was one of them, and it was implemented in various state of Australia. These policies are well known as the Stolen Generation. The Australian Government deemed that by the forcefully removing Indigenous children from their families and communities should allow Indigenous people…

room than the space provided. Anything written outside the text box will not be marked. The article presents key issues in regard to Indigenous Australians health status and their health disadvantages which have occurred through historical and geographical concepts. The report anaylses thes disadvantages through a timeline of Australia’s history and highlighted health problems that have occurred within Indigenous Australians over time. During European settlement, Australia was considered an…

population of Non-indigenous Australians (aged 15 to 64) were employed, whereas it was only 55.8% of the Indigenous population. This could be based on lower-education rates. For example, in a 2012 census shows that Aboriginal students who enrolled into New South Wales public school system made up only 6.3% of the total population enrolled. Due to low rates of employment and therefore lower income, people amongst the Indigenous population can only afford to live in rural areas.…

Effective governance and leadership, and recognition and incorporation of Indigenous models of governance, play an essential part in successfully overcoming the social, economic, and health disadvantages and development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In 2005, the Federal government implemented a new Indigenous policy, abolishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and transferring to mainstream government departments the responsibility for the delivery of…

Faith Bandler played an important role in promoting the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people. The struggles and discrimination of the ATSI peoples was made evident to her during her childhood and she went on to co-found an organisation which supported their rights, making many public and private speeches. Bandler played a vital part in the 1967 referendum and has been acknowledged for her contribution with many awards. Bandler is in no doubt one of the most important…

Aboriginal land rights is the return of the land which was unfairly taken from them on the original settlement of Australia.Eddie koiki Mabo fought against this and tried to save the meriam islands from the Queensland government who tried to deny them use of their own lands Mabo was strongly against this as his people had been there longer then anyone could remember. He claimed they had lived in permanent communities and had their own political and social organisations in their community. The…

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…

Ted Kelk (b.1927 d.1991) was a strong, passionate and articulate gay man, doggedly directing public attention to the terrible injustice the laws of Queensland imposed on gays, determined thereby to achieve law reform, and as a man of courage, determination and vision, he indeed became the catalyst for gay law reform in Queensland; Queensland born, and brought up on the family farm near Nambour, Ted entered teachers’ training college at only 16, then taught at Dajarra, a little country school…