Assignment on Aboriginal Knowledge and Experiences

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Running head: ABORIGINAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES
ABORIGINAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES
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The history of the aboriginal people and Torres Strait Island people in the territory of
Australia has been started almost 60 centuries ago when human beings have populated in such
Australian continent as well as in its islands (Heiss 2018). It can be stated that the first settlement
of the aboriginal people has taken place during a period of dropped sea level for the advantages
of the land bridges to the territory of Asia as well as in Australia. There are several problems,
which are handled by the aboriginal people in this territory such as discrimination in their
workplace, high rates of their poor physical health, addictions to the intoxications, several mental
health problems, detention and several domestic violence (Liberman 2017). For these problems,
they are suffering from an inferiority complex and doing self-harm or suicide, and it has been
increasing within the indigenous or aboriginal committees. In the workplace of various industries
or any public sectors, they are being discriminated. They are getting several disadvantages in
relations to such accessing the decent jobs and various essential services for their life such as
education, health care, land for living and many others. The state governments, as well as the
Federal government, have made an assurance to fulfil the gaps in the occupation results between
other Australians and the aboriginal people (Muller 2014). This paper aims to demonstrate the
practical actions, which will help to facilitate the respectful and positive outcome for indigenous
peoples in the territory of Australia.
In my opinion, the aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander people have been
suffering several problems in the workplace, which they may not disclose in front of the world.
They are suffering from unemployment, language problem, gender discrimination,
discrimination against race, caste and many other issues in the workplace. I have checked the
website of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and found that the employment rates

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have differed in the indigenous females and males. The employment rates of males have been
decreased from 53% to 48.5%, and the female employments have been increased from 43.2% to
44.8% among the ages between 15 to 64 (aihw.gov.au 2020). I think this the most severe
challenge of the aboriginal people in the territory of Australia is unemployment and the
discrimination in the self-determination.
According to my aspect, the unemployment of the aboriginal people and Torres Strait
Islander people in the workplace may happen for the discrimination on the basis of race, caste,
colour, language and many others. I think the main factors of unemployment of those people are
less education, skill level, training, poorer health, discrimination, narrow market opportunities
and much lower level of such job preservation. The language in the workplace for the aboriginal
people's has identified as a valuable and essential factor (Hersh et al. 2015). In my opinion, one
of the leading cause of the language problem is lack of education. The gender discrimination
among the workplace is one of the fatal effects for the aboriginals. There is a pay gap between
male and female workers as well as among the aboriginal employees. The ratio of gender pay
gap form the last two decades from 15% to 19%, and currently, it is almost 16.2% (Waterworth
et al. 2014).
I have seen that the employment rates of the aboriginal people in Australia are much
lower than other Australians for several factors such as education, poor health, skill level and
many others. Some indigenous people lack the fundamentals that need to go to work. This is the
result of poor learning conditions of that indigenous people. They do not have an adequate place
of living and where they want to sit or learn any social activities. I think lacking the education
they would not be capable of getting any high salaried job. I have seen in my survey that the