Issues Affecting Aboriginal Community in New South Wales

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Table of Contents
Abstract:......................................................................................................................................................2
Introduction:................................................................................................................................................2
European settlement:...................................................................................................................................3
Political issues:............................................................................................................................................3
Impact of discrimination, trauma, negative attitudes:..................................................................................3
Social issues:...............................................................................................................................................3
Economic issues:.........................................................................................................................................3
Cultural issues:............................................................................................................................................4
Factors affecting health:..............................................................................................................................4
Common diseases:.......................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion:.................................................................................................................................................4
References...................................................................................................................................................4
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Abstract:
This paper discusses about the political, cultural, economic and social issues affecting aboriginal
community. It also focuses on the factors contributing their ill health and the common diseases
experienced by these people. In this paper, I have chosen aboriginal community residing over
New South Wales.
Introduction:
Aboriginal people are considered as the first inhabitants of Australia. These are the people who
are of aboriginal descent, determined as an aboriginal individual and are acknowledged by the
community in which they live. Culture has huge significance in these communities and it
consists of several ceremonies and practices that are centered on the belief of dreaming or
dreamtime. It is carefully protected and is passed from one generation to another. It is also
significant in ill-health and health. Healthcare services are also recognizing its importance in
health improvements of aboriginals and are including culture-based treatment.
For Aboriginal Australians dreaming or dreamtime signifies the period when Ancestral sprits
proceeded over the land and formed life and significant geographic physical formations and sites.
Dreaming describes the origin of the world and working of humanity and nature (Alderdice,
2014). It structures and shapes life by the understanding and regulation of family life, obligations
to individuals and relations between genders, spirits and lands. dreaming allows them to know
their place in nature and traditional society and links their past spiritual world with the present as
well as future.
Law also plays significant role as it ensures the access to justice and helps to prevents violence.
They also assist to determine solutions to systematic issues in the justice system on the basis of
their cultural knowledge and local experiences. Effective law also helps to provide them with
basic human rights and decrease inequality and discrimination.
In aboriginal community kinship is an important system as it determines how individuals relate
to one another and their obligations, responsibilities and roles in relation to each other, ritual
business and land. It also determines ceremonial relationships, behavioral patterns with another
kin, funeral roles and who marries who (Kingsley & Townsend, 2013). It is an essential part of
entire social organization. In this community personal names are hardly used and individuals are
addressed by kinship terms. This system does not only set out the obligations and rights but it
also provides people with a guide to their own behavior. It also provides them confidence so that
the expected behavior of other people whom they might see is also expectable.
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