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Indigenous People in Australia - Essay

   

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CRITICALLY EXAMININGAND UNDERSTANDINGDIFFERENCE:INDIGENOUSAUSTRALIANS
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1Demographics and key features of the Indigenous group in Australian society.........................1Historical and Current day perspectives, policies and practices affecting indigenous group.....2Central belief, views and perspectives of Indigenous people.....................................................3Potential issues of contention or challenges for Indigenous people in relation to Australiansystem..........................................................................................................................................4Working Across Difference ............................................................................................................5Strength based approach.............................................................................................................5Implications for current policy direction and for practice..........................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTIONIndigenous Australians are the aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia,descended from the group that are existed in Australia as well as surrounding island beforeBritish colonisation. They are the native people in the territory. There 70 countries in the worldwhere the large number of indigenous people are living each practising unique traditions,retaining social, cultural, political, economical characteristics which are distinct from those ofthe dominant societies in which they are living (Bertels and Lawrence, 2016). The language,system, belief hold by indigenous people in Australia is entirely unique. There are two maintypes of indigenous groups which are Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal people. Recently inAustralia, there are approximately 400,000 indigenous people are residing. This present essaywill critically examine as well as understand the differences in indigenous people in Australia.MAIN BODY Demographics and key features of the Indigenous group in Australian societyIndigenous Australian are descended from the people who lives in Australis as well as thesurroundings islands prior to European colonisation. There are two distinct groups of Indigenouspeople living in Australia which are the people who come from the Torres Strait Islands NorthCape york in Queensland are the group called Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal people whocome form the all other parts of Australia. Amongst these both the groups, there are differentculture, belief and languages (Crane and Matten, 2016). There are 700 languages which arespoken by indigenous people. At the time of arrival of Britishers, the population of indigenous people in Australia was1,50,000 But after sometime, the biggest reduction was noticed after the arrival of British inAustralia. With the passing of years the population of indigenous people has been reduced veryfast. There are various factors which leads to reduction in their population which arediscrimination and murder or mass killing by Britishers and Europeans and various diseases.They face many issues and troubles in the period of Britishers and Europeans. The demographic statistics allows the descriptions of the trends in the population ofindigenous people. It has been recorded that the mass proportion of indigenous people are underthe age of 20 which are around 50 percent. Less number of indigenous people are at the agegroup between and over 40 years which are around 6 percent. In addition to this, the trends also1
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