Reflection on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Running head: REFLECTION ON ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS
Reflection on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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1REFLECTION ON ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS
Table of Contents
1. Personal Opinion after Watching, “The Tall Man”............................................................2
2. Preparing to Work with the Community Living in Palm Island – A Reflection................3
2.1. Background – About Life on Palm Island...................................................................3
2.2. Skills and Frameworks to be deployed for Working with the Indigenous Australian
People on Palm Island............................................................................................................4
2.2.1. Reading up on the History of Palm Island and becoming informed about the Local
People 4
2.2.2. Becoming Aware of Essential Christian Values and Tenets...................................5
2.2.3. Deploying Skills like Empathy and Compassion....................................................5
2.2.4. Becoming Acquainted with Aboriginal Customs, Culture and Tradition...............6
2.2.5. Being aware of the Oppressive History of Cultural Racism....................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

2REFLECTION ON ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS
Assessment 2 Part 2
1. Personal Opinion after Watching, “The Tall Man”
To watch the documentary film, “The Tall Man” as directed by Tony Krawitz is
something that turned out to be a very enlightening experience for me. The documentary
covers all the events which occurred on Palm Island following the death of a native
Australian man in police custody on the 19th of November in 2004.The local indigenous man
who suffered severe blows at the hands of the white police officers and who died as a result
of his injuries was of the name of Cameron Doomadge (Hooper, 2009). What I personally
liked a lot about this documentary film was how true it remained to the book of the same
name by Chloe Hooper. The director made no attempt to fabricate information or duplicate
information and portrayed the events that took place in real life and just as it was portrayed in
the book by Chloe Hooper in the most accurate ways possible. I was especially impressed by
the vividness and accuracy of the details that the documentary covered in order to give
viewers an idea of the extent of the atrocities that had taken place against Cameron
Doomadge by the white Australian police officers. It brought tears to my eyes to see the facts
unfold right before my very eyes, and to learn about how persistently Boe, lawyer tried to
ensure some kind of justice for the dead man. The sheer arrogance of white police officers
towards black and aboriginal people living in Australia is also something that was covered
quite well in the documentary film, in my opinion. What I felt after watching this
documentary movie is outrage, really, at the kind of injustice that aboriginal or native people
in Australia have suffered at the hands of white people, especially white people entrusted
with law and order duties while becoming much more informed at the same time of the
activism that has been and continues to be carried out by members of civil society to ensure