condition of the aboriginals as well as the Torres Strait islander people. For this particular research paper Sydney South West has been taken under consideration for the proper evaluation of the desired health care services offered to the respective people living there. Though some improvements have been done in some areas but the development is slow and inconsistent. The gap has not reduced and this was remaining wider between the Torres Strait islanders and the aboriginals and some other Australians’
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders suffering disadvantage in Australia. The issues faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are significant in the Australian legal system, and include problems arising from evidence laws, criminal proceedings and bail laws. To begin with, the issue of evidence laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has been addressed through legal mechanisms. Particularly, maintaining secrecy when taking evidence from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander causes considerable
Along with lower socioeconomic and environmental factors of Torres Strait Islanders contributing to the weight problems. ABS 2011 data shows LGA median family income in TI is $1,736 compare to NSW median family income of $1,477; however majority of LGA family weekly income falls under $600-$999 with LGA average of 3.4 persons per household in contrast to NSW average of 2.6 persons per household, moreover data from Thursday Island (Police) Station Profile (2015) showed most populations employed by
European colonisation has had a devastating effect on Indigenous culture in Australia. Centuries ago, the indigenous Australian have already existed in Australia. However, with the European invasion in the 1700s, Aboriginal people have ended up been the victims of the world unnatural to their existence for thousands of years. Things started to change during the late 1700s, the time when colonisation was instigated by Europeans and the British, the indigenous culture in Australia was severely damaged
in the Torres Strait that separates the Australian mainland at Cape York from Papua New Guinea. But you have to remember that Torres Strait Islander people are not the same as Aboriginal people they are completely different. Some topics of discussion today are: what are the differences and similarities between Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, what are the connections between Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, what do Torres Strait islanders do best and where is The Torres Strait Islands
Eddie Mabo was a man who took on the Australian legal system to fight an injustice and change the way Australian history was told. Eddie Mabo was born on the Island of Mer also known as Murray Island in the Torres Strait off the tip of Northern Queensland in 1936 on the 29th of June. For thousands of years it had been the home of the Meriam people and from the time he was little Eddie Mabo learned about the importance of his culture. But the country he grew up in didn't recognise even the basic
the successful and systematic implementation of cultural safety principles and practice. NATSIHWA, via its membership, have determined a number of strategies as being essential to reinforcing and sustaining cultural safety in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare
Native Title of Australia Native title is recognition of the traditional rights and interests to land and waters of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It recognises the unique ties some Aboriginal groups have to land. Australian law recognises that native title exists where Aboriginal people have maintained a traditional connection to their land and waters, since sovereignty, and where acts of government have not removed it. The name terra nullius means ‘land belonging to no one’. As
Once upon a time, roughly 60,000 years ago, the birth of a new era arose in Australia. This was the beginning of the Indigenous Australian tribes in particular the Eora nation of Sydney. The Eora people are located along the coast of Sydney. The nation consists of a total of 29 clans. The Darug tribe is one of these many clans and they were located in the Sydney Basin. The entire community of the Indigenous Australian’s were heavily impacted by the arrival of the powerful European people. Not only
SEXUAL HEALTH AMONGST INDIGINOUS AUSTRALIANS In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience sexual health inequalities when compared to the rest of the population. They are over-represented in notifications of sexually transmissible infections and viral hepatitis (Kirby Institute 2013) and have higher rates of teenage pregnancy (Li, Hilder and Sullivan, 2012). Sexual health according to WHO (2002) is not limited to absence of disease and dysfunction, it also refers to a state