Torres Strait Islanders

rights, low wages and poor living conditions compared to British-Australians. The Defence Act 1903 provided a compulsory military training scheme but this didn’t include Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. When war was declared in 1914, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were barred from enlisting because of their colour. However, many men would try to enlist anyways,…

years of dispossession, racism and discrimination have left Indigenous Australians with some of the lowest levels of education, highest levels of unemployment, poorest health and most appalling housing conditions. To achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander equality more steps must be taken to improve their health, social, and economic…

that cause disparities, which enables to help the health care system can put into use efficiently. This essay will outline socioeconomic characteristics that influence on the healthcare activities and health outcomes for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the Far North Queensland, Australia by using four categories among the ‘Social determent of the health Assessment Circle’ and enumerate and discuss how each one of the categories from SDH assessment circle has been applied…

past 15 years, the rate of imprisonment among Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Australians has increased by 57 per cent (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2014). According to Mick Gooda, Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2014), almost 50 per cent of young Australians, between the ages of 12 and 24, who are in juvenile detention centers or prisons are of aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. Gooda also found that 58 per cent of young…

Aboriginals. Other memorable events of protest include Eddie Mabo Land Rights. All of these events successfully made significant changes to Aboriginal Australians and shaped their Australian lifestyle. Eddie Koiki Mabo (1936-1992), was a Torres Strait Islander community leader who had advocated for land rights for Indigenous Australians. When the British arrived in…

The main groups at risk in the VPHWP are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, children, adolescents, the elderly, those with low-socioeconomic background or live in low socioeconomic areas. The VPHWP emphasises the importance of the Social Determinants of health. These are social, biological and environmental factors…

The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Autralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1997. Annotation Robert Anthony Hall was born in 1947 and is an Australian writer who wrote this book through his travelling around the country while he interviews Aboriginal, Islander and white Australians to explore the war effort of Aboriginal and Islander Australians during the second world war…

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture has suffered and become widely misunderstood. Stories often provide a myopic, inaccurate image of the Indigenous people, portraying them as uneducated, violent or lazy. While many Australians seem to lack concern for the country’s first inhabitants, there is a large population who also wishes to protect them and resolve a number of issues deeply rooted in Australian history. In an effort to gain recognition for their people, Aboriginal and Torres…

The celebrations that commence on the 26th of January each year should be moved to another date, as commemorates the beginning of the heinous crimes acted upon the Indigenous. It is respectful to the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders that Australia moves this date to another, as many has forgotten the true meaning of this date. Australia Day celebrates the invasion of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788. Land was stolen from the indigenous and its inhabitants were forcefully…

The native Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia had, since western settlement in 1788, been dispossessed of their natural freedoms and rights. Centuries later, by 1954, the law still discriminated against the indigenous, inhibiting their civil liberties; however, many improvements have occurred which substantially bettered the standards of life as present. Originally, Aborigines were considered savages and fell under the Flora and Fauna Act, but through the reconciliation…