Health and Indigenous Australian Peoples Culture Values and Beliefs

Health and Indigenous Australian
Peoples Culture Values and Beliefs

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Australian First Nations or Indigenous Australians are the members of ethnic groups that
used to live in Australia before British colonisation. Indigenous Australians are divided into two
main groups. First one are the Aboriginal community belonged from mainland of Australia and
Tasmania, and another one is Torres Strait Islander peoples belong from the seas between
Queensland and Papua New Guinea. English colonial settlers attacked the indigenous community
in 1788. Colonialism brought by Britishers in their territory impacted their lives drastically in
many ways. English colonial settlers changed aboriginal's living environment through burning,
by managing resources in some area (Browne et. al., 2020). The article allows to critically
explore all the comparative methods, multidimensional, and critical approaches to explicit role of
human agency and social structures to define the connection between terrorism and the
globalisation. The impact, role and essence of colonial terrorism on Indigenous Australian
community raised many issues includes intellectual, political, complex moral, ethical and
philosophical. The article raise understanding on concepts and theories of colonial terrorism,
historic and cultural information about backward Australian community and finally the structural
aspects of colonial terrorism(Whyman et. al., 2021).
MAIN BODY
In this discussion; it is not appropriate to use term tribe as it is considered as racist
concept. Indigenous group of Australia are considered to be called out by their ethno-national
names, that is, Aboriginals and Strait Torres Islanders. Bultin (1993) suggested there major
causes of destruction of Indigenous society and they are: the withdrawal of resources, disease
episode, and killing. Indulgence of English settlers in Australia have brought many European
diseases also amongst the community. Indigenous population was not immunologically strong
enough to fight infectious diseases like measles, smallpox, pneumonia, influenza and
tuberculosis. Resistance to fight disease also mentions the awareness of these community
regarding the disease. These communities were more vulnerable to disease which cause physical
and mental problems. The issue highlights their lack of involvement with advancement,
knowledge, medical facilities, education, political issues, social issues and modern lifestyle
(Dickson et. al., 2019). Many of them were not able to fight the disease and leads to end up their
lives. British terrorism even expropriated their local land and in order to remove indigenous