Socio-Cultural and Historical Context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians

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Socio-Cultural and Historical context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander
Australians

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Introduction
In order to know the contemporary aspect of Australian, it is quite important to understand
about their culture, life and need. Australian Aboriginal have a great culture history. Land is a
basic need for any indigenous people. Their land ownership are different from European legal
system, women has a traditional rule (Preston, 2018). They have very complex relationship
with each other in a group.
The research question associated with the research is as follows:
What are the socio cultural and historical aspects associated with the aboriginals of
Australia?
The objectives of the research paper are:
 To analyse the background of the aboriginals in Australia
 To examine the law associated with the aboriginals in the country
 To analyse the impact of discrimination on the aboriginals
Data method
In order to analyse the objectives of the paper, deductive approach has been taken into
consideration, where information from the previous researches on the topic would be used to
analyse the aim of the paper. Based upon the set objectives, secondary data in the form of
books, journals, and peer reviewed articles have been used. Qualitative data has been
retrieved from such secondary sources so that the answers to the set objectives and aim of the
paper are provided appropriately.
Findings
Background of the Aboriginals
The Torres Straits is in between Coral Sea and Arafura Sea. They live their permanently in 18
communities as well as in every location of Australia. The Torres Strait economy was land
and agriculture and fishes. These are their basic work. When they starting hunting then they
also start trading of food. They were also a good sailor. Torres history has two parts-
‘bepotime’ time before and the time after ‘Christ-a time’.