Torres Strait Islanders

The title for my exhibition is The Past and Present: Aboriginal Identity. My curatorial theme will explore the lives of the Aboriginal people from the past and present. Many of the artists chosen for the exhibition bring to light, and focus on the Stolen Generation in their works. This will be the past part of the exhibition. The present part of the exhibition will focus on how the Aborigines have dealt with those effects of the Stolen Generations while working to fit in with white communities…

The treatment of native peoples all over the world has been an issue for centuries. In the eyes of today’s society it is seen as unacceptable and inhumane but to those in power at the time these measures may have seemed like the best way to an ideal country. An example of this can be seen in the Aboriginal Australians, who weren’t even seen as humans until 1967 and the native Americans, that had their country taken away from them and their traditional ways disrupted beyond belief. Before the…

Access to culturally safe and quality healthcare is a significant problem for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Therefore, by taking a person-centred approach will not only allow patients to be directly involved in their care, but also take into account their cultural and individual needs. In this essay I will discuss my personal experiences as well the past experiences of Mrs Akajen which may influence the establishment of a nurse-person therapeutic relationship (N-PTR). I will also…

Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students This standard highlights the fact that teachers will teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students throughout their career. Teachers need to be prepared to meet these students’ needs in the classroom by designing and implementing effective teaching strategies. Teachers must manipulate the curriculum to ensure learning is relevant to all their students, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. By…

mental illness; however, according to the ABS (2013), Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are three times more likely to develop mental illness than the non-indigenous population. Mental illness among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generation survivors is even greater (Dudgeon, Walker, Scrine, Shepherd, Calma, & Ring, 2014). Suicide rates within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are also twice as high, more so in remote areas, compared to…

Subject Matter: The poem is a scenario about the inevitability of restlessness in the life of a transient-like family. This event is an Australian phenomenon, originated from shearers and rouseabouts (unskilled labourers, or odd jobbers) during the early colonial times. The family is constantly moving from place to place. A lot of Australian families went through similar situations during the time of economic hardship, including Bruce Dawe. The author of this poem that was written in 1999. The…

How do the episode 'Redfern Now': Stand Up and the poetry of Ali Cobby-Eckermannn (Circles and Squares and Table Manners) explore the idea of belonging in modern Australian society? Humans are made to want to belong and fit in with each other, however, it is not as easy as it seems. ‘Redfern Now: Stand Up’ was directed by Rachel Perkins in 2012. It revolves around the life of Joel Shields, an aboriginal teenager who is given a scholarship to a prestigious school, Clifton Grammar. ‘Circles and…

The fact that Indigenous Australians have experienced maltreatment and a deprivation of their civil liberties for generations is well-documented. In discussing the ways in which Aboriginal people and their white supporters promoted Civil Rights and Indigenous Rights in Australia from the late 1950s through to 1972, this essay will provide a representative rather than comprehensive treatment. It will begin with a brief overview of the state of affairs leading up to the late 1950s. The notion of…

Social Darwinism is the theory that groups of people or races can be compared to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin did with plants and animals in nature. During the period of 1930 and 1970, social Darwinist theories played a major role in negatively impacting the lives of Aborigines in Australia to a great extent. They used the social Darwinist theories as an excuse for the white Australians to apply Darwinist theories like 'survival of the fittest' and 'white superiority' and…

The Indigenous people whose traditional lands are the area of Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory are The Ngunnawal people (alternatively Ngunnawal tribe). First encountered by European settlers in the 1820s, the Ngunnawal people lived in an area roughly bounded by what are now the towns of Queanbeyan, Boorowa and Goulburn. The meaning of Ngunnawal is we, the people, or us and today’s spelling came from the settlers, the original spelling was Ngoonawal (rhyming with soon). The region…