Lessons About Improving Cultural Safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Cultural Safety Framework
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Lessons About Improving Cultural Safety for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

My History
• I am a scholar from the Australian indigenous Aboriginal race
• Worked with a Child Safe Organization during part time
• My culture has firm belief on the Dreamtime
• We have been integrated and accepted within the societal setup
• Accorded the right to live in the Australian mainland

Interaction with the Aborigines
• I have lived among the Aborigines all my life
• Being part of the community, I am aware of the issues facing the
community
• The previous policies and practices by the Australian government did
not favor the indigenous people (Eckermann, Dowd & Chong 2010).

Knowledge about the Aborigines and Torres
Strait Islanders
• These cultures were formed by people who identify themselves as
indigenous and have been accepted by the society (Maclean, Ross,
Cuthill & Rist 2013).
• They are legally defined as Australians to the mainland or the Island of
Tasmania (Hallam, 2014).
• Interacted extensively with the community serving under the Child
Safe Organization.
• The course covers extensively on the community’s information.

Influences in diverse Environments
• Quite positive and empowering influences on the indigenous
communities
• Action by the government in the development and implementation of
National Principles for Child Safe Organizations which champion issues
encountered by the Aboriginal children (Lowell, et al 2012).
• Racial marginalization has been eliminated across all sectors of
representation and in health care