Aboriginal Safety: Cultural Awareness and Workplace Strategies

Running head: ABORIGINAL SAFETY
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Section B.
Answer to question 1.
The competent cultural awareness of the concept of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people can promote cultural safety in the community services as well as health
context. The cultural safety is the result of education which allows safe services to the receipt
of the services. The unsafe cultural practices diminish, demean and disempower the cultural
identity as well as the wellbeing of the individuals. Cultural safety enhances the delivery of
health and other services by recognizing the power relationship among the recipients and the
health care professionals. This enables the receiver of the health care and community services
to take best advantage of those service provided.
The competent cultural awareness makes the service providers to examine their
preconceived ideas as well as stereotypes. It must be a compulsory exercise for overcoming
the racist attitudes along with discrimination practices in the community and health care
service delivery. In order to provide services, the organizations follow some regulations.
These are-
 Maintaining respect for all cultures, experience, obligations and knowledge.
 Accessing to prerequisites of effective participation in the system of the dominant
culture which include administration support, organizational and communicational
skills, political and financial resources.
 Each client is to treated with dignity without any assault on the cultural identity
 Debunking that all aboriginal cultures are same.
Answer to question 2.
The aboriginal laws before the settlement of the British, in 1788, were considered to
be primitive. Being over 500 tribes at one point, the Australian aborigines had diverse

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guidelines and regulations which were not possible to be followed. As their culture and
ethnicity was completely different from the Whites, the country needed some new
regulations. In order to recognize the diversity in the aboriginal and Torres Islanders,
amendments were needed.
One of the most important act that effected the aborigines of Australia was the
Aboriginal Land Council Elections Act of 1983. The aboriginal communities of Australia
were benefitted with this law as a compensation to the historic disposition of land as well as
support system in their economic and social development (Aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au
2018). This law recognizes traditional ownership as well as occupation of land by the
aboriginal people and their connection to their land. Through this particular law, the
government recognizes the social, cultural, spiritual and economic meaning of land to these
aboriginal people.
In 2013, the government of Australia passed the act of recognition (Indigenous.gov.au
2018). Through this law, the senate acknowledges the rights of the aboriginal people as the
first inhabitants of the nation. Secondly, this act fostered momentum for referendum for the
constitutional recognition of the aboriginal and Torres islander people. The government of
Australia has committed $10 million towards the campaign being led by the recognition, part
of reconciliation Australia in order to continue for building support of a successful
referendum.
In 2007, the government took measures to respond the emergencies in the aboriginal
region of the country. These measures include deployment of additional force to the affected
communities, imposing new restrictions on alcohol and kava. The commonwealth increased
funding for the provision of community services. In addition to this, the government also
abolished the community development employment projects in the Aboriginal Australia.