CHCDIV002 - Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander

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Student : Jewel Vafee - S1710650
Course : Diploma of Nursing
Course
Offer : 17VDONB7
Course
Unit : CHCDIV002 Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander cultural safety
Assess
ment
type
: Theory Assessment
Displaying 1 to 14 out of 14 total.
1. Identify a piece of legislation in the context of Aboriginal
and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety in your
State/Territory. Describe the key objectives/objects outlined in
the identified Act in relation to Aboriginal cultural safety.
The Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003 binds all people
including those from the state, the Parliament’s legislative power, the
commonwealth as well as other states. The main objective or purpose

of the act is to provide recognition, conservation and protection
effectively to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage
(Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships
(Queensland Government), 2017).
The key principles or objectives are:
1. Providing recognition, conservation and protection of the
cultural heritage through respect of knowledge, customary
practices and culture of the Torres Strait Islander people.
2. The people of the Torres Strait Island should be considered as
primary guardians, knowledge holders and keepers of their
cultural heritage.
3. Provide respect, preservation and maintenance of knowledge,
practices and innovations of the inhabitants of the Torres Strait
Island. Promoting understanding of their cultural heritage.
4. Promotion of activities directed towards recognition,
conservation and protection of the cultural heritage as it will
help to reaffirm the obligations of the Torres Strait Islander
people to their customs.
5. Establishment of effective and timely processes for handling
activities that harm the cultural heritage of the Torres Strait
Islander people.
2. Describe in your own words, the following concepts of
diversity of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultures (in
30-50 words each).

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System of Kinship:
The kinship system enables the Aboriginal people to understand
the relationship they have with one another, the roles and the
responsibilities they have to take in raising their children.
Modelling of positive behaviours like sharing and caring, helping
to build good behaviour, identity and self-confidence of the
children are some of the important features. Grandparents play an
important role in passing down family traditions and cultural
knowledge to their grandchildren. It helps to build both family and
community strength. The Aboriginal culture acts as a protective
force for their children (Parker and Milroy 2014).
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Dreaming:
Dreaming is multilayered, holistic framework or approach that
combines the physical, spiritual and personal dimension of the
aboriginal culture along with their past, present and as well as
their future lives. The Aboriginal communities who carry out
traditional culture practices remain relevant to with the spiritual
connection in association with their dreaming. Spiritual
connection to the dreaming enables the Aboriginal communities to
raise their children and impart values of group adhesion,
community loyalty and interdependence (McRae-Williams, E. and
Guenther 2012).
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Aboriginal languages:

In the past, more than 100 different languages were spoken by
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Presently, only 50
languages exist with only 20 languages spoken as the first
language by the Torres Strait Island inhabitants. The Torres Strait
Islan community consist of two main traditional languages. These
are the Meriam Mir and Kala Lagaw Ya (Hamacher
et al. 2016).
The language of the eastern islands is Meriam Mir, while the
traditional language of the central and western islands is Kala
Lagaw Ya. Meriam Mir consists of two dialects: Mer and Erub,
while Kala Lagaw Ya has four dialects: Mabuyag, Kalaw Kawaw Ya,
Kawrareg and Kulkalgau Ya.
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Importance of law (traditional law):
The Aboriginal people had a set of laws set out by them and
termed as the traditional law. It includes the features associated
with unacceptable and acceptable behaviours in their community.
These traditional laws were very important as it helped them to
maintain a safe society without any misdeeds like theft, adultery,
insults, homicide, abduction, physical assault, among others.
Moreover, not sharing the food with someone was also considered
an offence under the traditional law. The traditional law was
handled by the elders in the Aboriginal community (Connors
2012).