Western Australia

1. Life expectancy at birth for Indigenous people is on average 17 years lower than that for the total Australian population. 2. In non-remote areas Aboriginal adults were twice as likely to be affected by and to report disability and/or chronic disease. 3. In 2006 21% of 15 year old Indigenous people versus 5% of 15 year old non–Indigenous people were not participating in school education. 4. The proportion of Aboriginal people in post secondary education, with a qualification of certificate…

The Queensland city of Bundaberg is crammed with traffic, with franchised fast food outlets, and with shopping centres tucked into air-conditioned cocoons that isolate them from the outside world. At an initial glance it appears to be merely a clone of many other Australian cities, but if you take the time to look beyond the veneer of concrete and glass, you’ll find that there’s more to this bustling metropolis than initially meets the eye. It’s a city shaped by people with grand visions of the…

Indigenous Australian had been living in Australia since 50,00 years ago. They lived by hunting, walking place to place, building homes, etc. But when the British came, the ritual that they’d been applying to their daily lives gone. The white people came and took away their lands and start building their own business. They took away the indigenous Australians kids and was known as the stolen generation. From that moment, that gap between indigenous and non-indigenous people increasing, from life…

highly efficient in his field. Foley utilises an array of methods including his involvement in major political activities, his acting career and his countless informative essays to raise awareness and truth about the Aboriginal population within Australia. Gary Foley spent the majority of his youth in Nambucca Heads, however, at the young age of 15 he was expelled from school. At 17, he travelled to Sydney as an apprentice draughtsperson; ever since he has been at the centre of many. Gary…

When Europeans came to Australia, they brought with them some epidemic diseases, such as smallpox, measles, influenza, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, venereal syphilis and gonorrhea, which were common in Europe in the 18th century. With the introduction of illness to Indigenous people…

As a country we should be addressing our culture and prejudice against our indigenous Australians. Picture this. You are an indigenous Australian. You have just been told you are pregnant or your wife or partner has. You are told your maternal death rate is 3 time bigger than non-indigenous females. Nine months later and you have just given birth to your child. Well done, you survived. Now imagine that your child’s risk of mortality is double compared to non-indigenous children. They are…

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 healthy continent as it had not been exposed to the many diseases that had occurred in Euope, however due to the arrival of European settlement infectious diseases became pandemic. For example the 1789 smallpox epidemic which…

The health status of Indigenous Australians is devastatingly worse in contrast to the status of Non-Indigenous Australians today. Largely these inequities arise from social economic, lifestyle and social factors, including substandard living conditions, exposure to violence, poorer rates of education, discrimination, racism and high rates of unemployment. In 2013, 76.4% of the working-age population of Non-indigenous Australians (aged 15 to 64) were employed, whereas it was only 55.8% of the…

is the frequent discrimination and racism. Beyondblue have stated Australia is still a society in which 1 in 5 individuals openly admit to having racist attitudes towards Indigenous people (2014). Many Australians are aware of the discrimination that exists yet, many do not understand that it is directly connected to the nation's history of colonisation. This issue is also perpetuated by the many statues and monuments around Australia, that represent a one-sided history and silence the…

Kalgoorlie – Boulder is Australia's largest outback city with a population of more than 30,000 people. It is the largest urban centre in the Goldfields region and the fifth in Western Australia. Kalgoorlie is located in the Easter Goldfields, which is 596 Km Northeast of Perth. The traditional landowners of Kalgoorlie area are the Maduwangka people and the name “ Kalgoorlie “ is said to mean “ Silky Pear Bush” in the local aboriginal language. European settlement of Kalgoorlie began in…