Indigenous Housing Policy in Australia: Impact of Colonisation on Indigenous People

INDIGENOUS HOUSING POLICY IN AUSTRALIA

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Colonisation is defined economical phenomena in which large scale population do
movements where the migrants have strong link with their ancestor. In simple words colonisation
is described as the act of establishing of colonies. The present report is based on impact of
colonisation on indigenous group of people. The report will discuss specifically about the
indigenous housing policy in Australia.
MAIN BODY
Indigenous people are know as group of people that have distinct social and cultural
groups which share collective ancestral ties with natural resource and land where they are living
from longer time. Due to colonisation many indigenous peoples worldwide has lost their land
and resources connection with their ancestor place and also lost their control over them. Along
with this, it has lead down the traditional structure and families (Hall and Hill, (2020)).
Moreover, schools has been build so that proper education can be given to such people which
has resulted in destroying education, cultures, language and identities of the communities. The
one of the key issues that has been faced by indigenous people am related to land right and their
control of resources they traditional hold. Land has not been just considered as an economic
assets and act as access to natural resources through farming and hunting. But in their culture
land has spiritual significance and control over it allow indigenous people to protect the
environment. Furthermore, international law allow the indigenous people to have control and
right to their homeland and to cultural practice which are related to territory.
It can be seen that government is trying to take control of indigenous land by using
various method for the motive of development. Moreover, safe and secure home with working
faculties is one of the most crucial support for the good well-being and health of Torres and
Aboriginal Strait islander people (Fisher, Friel and Baum, (2021)). The WHO in 2020 stated
that good environment include physical, chemical and biological factor and it does impact on
life expectancy, young child morality and family as well as community violence. Indigenous
Australian represent people that are homeless and looking for assistance for housing. Although
not having such policy can lead to social exclusion and disadvantage experience. The housing
policy include discussion on ownership, rent, quality and overcrowding factors.
The housing tenure of Australian housing policy describes about whether house has been
rented, occupied or owned under some arrangement. Although indigenous house is define as