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The Effect of Colonization on Aboriginal CultureAboriginals of the Torres strait are the oldest and most heavily colonized culture that have resided on the lands of Australia. The records of colonization have had a major effect on their culture. Due to the underdevelopment and lack of improvement, lack of proper infrastructure, and increasingly westernized ideals, values, and beliefs the children and the young of the community face immense dif...

Challenges Faced by Indigenous Students in Australian SchoolsThe schools in Australia are basically considered the sites of harm for the aboriginal people, where they get harms in both the means, historically and currently. Although the conceptualized sovereignty of the country is enacted by the Torres Strait Islander people, they need to get the foundations to better understand the concept of education in the system. Numerous examples of the ...

Settled Copyright IssuesExplain the copyright implications regarding the aboriginal flag, and discuss the copyright issues that were resolved as well as any other remaining copyright issues which may possibly arise. Over the past two decades, Australian citizens have made to believe that the aboriginal flag was a unifying symbol to the indigenous populations of Australia in which the court ruled that the flag actually belonged to Harold Tho...

ProfileIn this assignment we are going to discuss about the aboriginal community in Redfern. As per the Census report 2011, in Redfern, there are about 12,035 aboriginal people, which constitute about 2.4% of the population of Redfern (Newworldencyclopedia.org, 2015). Redfern can be identified as a suburb, which is located about 3 km south of the capital of South Wales, Sidney. It is under the control of the local government of Sidney. Th...

Aboriginal Resistance to ColonizationThe postcolonial discourse in Australia had been very diverse and Aboriginal arts in the postcolonial era had gone through critical modes. Art has been used as the precious way for the dialogue process and expressing resistance. Aboriginal society of Australia is the way of maintaining the social, political and religious knowledge. British colonization in Australia began in the year 1788. The British author...

BackgroundAustralia is a land of diverse cultures. Since the time of early colonization in Australia, alcohol is being consumed as a beverage all over the country. Over the last few decades the alcohol consumption in this continent has increased with time. The Aboriginal population and the Torres Strait Islanders staying in Tasmania has always been centre of research for the past few decades due to their linguistically and culturally different...

Themes in My PlaceWritten by Sally Morgan in the year of 1987, the autobiographical novel My Place has emerged to be one of the most recognized novels belonging to the genre of Aboriginal Literature (Morgan and Reynolds 1987). The novel offers a simple tale of the live of the young aboriginal protagonist, who has grown up without adequate knowledge of the past, her family, traditions or the cultural heritage she belongs to. While staying at Pe...

Known Risk Factors for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and LGBT GroupsAboriginal indigenous Australian people are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals who were descended from human groups present in Australia and other surrounding islands before the British colonization.  The culture of this group have been changed and developed over time. Before 1788, there were only indigenous aboriginal people living in...

Background of the StudyEco-criticism is generally defined as an approach that serves to redefine and scrutinize the relation of literature and the manner in which it defines or treats the surrounding environment (Clark and Douglas). ‘Green Literatures’ has come to the foreground since 1970s (Moore). In literature, eco-criticism is used to decode and analyze the presentation of man in connection with the surrounding environment. The...

Background of Australia’s Racial-based PoliciesAustralia has its history surrounded by racial-based policies and that made the relation between European origin people and that of Indigenous Australians both complex and controversial for unambiguous and straightforward interpretations. Such policies obscured the essence of equality in regard to social welfare and hence creating the disparity which has been perceived for decades in regard ...

DiscussionThe issue to be focused in this paper is the misrepresentation of Aboriginal people in Canadian media and the focus would be on the right of Aboriginal parents to take care of their children. The story in focus here is the decision of an Aboriginal mother to cure her ill daughter through traditional methods and not in a hospital. The story was published in The Star in 2014 with the heading First Nations parents can now doom their sick...

Context and Purpose of the Indigenous VoiceAt the time of recognising call for the Voice in Parliament, it is noted by the committee that growing number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals who are chosen to Federal parliament and State Parliament and local council in current time. It is also noted by them that the series of administrative agencies which are considered to involve with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Assessment of the SituationRacial segregation in the Australian healthcare sector has had a detrimental impact on the Aboriginals and Torres Islanders populace. Recent studies have exposed the factors that prevent this population from accessing high quality care (Thurber, et al., 2018). Various issues have been listed including racism, social dispossession, unemployment, and illiteracy among others. According to Thurber and colleagues (2018)...

Knowledge of Pathophysiology of Dementia and BPSDTypically, dementia is a chronic disorder of mental process that is as a result of brain disease or injury, it is characterized by memory disorders, change in personality and reasoning impairment. Majority of people with dementia will always experience Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) at some point during their illness, majorly during the middle or later stages. This arti...

Types of Diabetes and Pathophysiology Place the correct type of diabetes beside the anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology description. Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Pre diabetes   Gestational diabetes. Gestational Diabetes Causes insulin resistance Placenta produces hormones that can block the action of insulin Higher than normal blood glucose levels first appear during pregnancy. Type 1 diabetes. ...

Factors influencing the smoking behavior among Indigenous AustraliansCigarette smoking is one of the leading contributors which is responsible for the increase of morbidity and mortality among the Indigenous population. The impact of smoking on the health of these people depends on the duration of smoking as well as the intensity. However recently there has been a marked reduction in smoking in Australia. Despite of this the prevalence of smok...

The Influence of Cultural and Social Structures on Health and Well-being in AustraliaQuestion 1: A cultural and social structure such as race, religion as well as language and economic status has a major influence on the health and wellbeing of people in Australia. There may be some cultural tensions, which took place between May and the patient due to the difference in culture between Aboriginal and other cultures. It is a major fact in Aust...

Understanding the Kinship System of Aboriginal Australians1. The aboriginal Australians have a unique concept of building relations amongst themselves and their surrounding social environment. This is known as kinship. It is important to know about the aboriginal history to define and understand the concept of kinship. The concept of kinship system is significantly different from the way most Australians view their families and their relations...

Background on Bawrunga Aboriginal Medical ServiceIndigenous health is related to the physical, cultural, emotional and the social wellbeing of the members of the Aboriginal community and the Torres Strait islander people. Most of these indigenous Australians are seen to experience poorer health conditions in comparison to the non-indigenous Australians therefore they tend to die at much younger ages (Parker & Milroy, 2014). There is a tend...

Facts and Legal issues of the caseThe case of Kartinyeri v Commonwealth (1998) 195 CLR 337, was regarding an Australian legal and political controversy involving the clash of religious practices and property rights of the Indigenous communities in Australia. From the very beginning, the facts of the case revolved around the construction of a bridge to Hindmarsh Island near the adjoining areas of Hindmarsh Island located near South Australia....

Importance of Addressing Mental Health Issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women Mental health issues have been ignored and overlooked with specific emphasis on the proportion of women population belonging to the aboriginal community (Acharya et al., 2017). Mental health issues have been perceived with a stigmatized belief by the members within the community. In accordance to the evidences revealed by the research studies, a major...

The Importance of Including Indigenous PerspectivesAustralia is the homeland of diverse Aborignal communities that account for more than 2% or 400,000 of population. The language, history and culture of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population are integral to the national identity of the Australian nation. The nation identifies the need of supporting teachers for including indigenous perspectives in the curricula with the aim of im...

FocusThis lesson plan is developed for a year 2 class, keeping correlation with the Aboriginal pedagogy. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) form a significant portion of not only the country’s demographic populace, but also the nation’s cultural and traditional historical heritage. Tyson Kawooppa Yunkaporta (2009), therefore created the 8 way framework for aboriginal pedagogy wherein his primary objective was to ex...

Preconceived Notions about AboriginalsIn this essay I would discuss about my beliefs and values about the aboriginals and the Torres Strait Islanders and how that belief influenced my communication with the Aboriginal people. Before commencing this subject, I had a different belief about the aboriginal people.  It appeared that they have any fixed habitation and that they used to sleeping in a cave or rocks. The relationship of smoking a...

Understanding the ACCHS Model of Comprehensive Primary HealthcareSelf-determination is a procedure and a right exercised by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Australians (McHugh, 2004). It includes their collective right in decision making. It is thus a central procedure and right for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Australians. This is because it underpins the well being of the people culturally, as a community, family a...