History of the Treatment of Indigenous Australians

Reflective Report:
History of the Treatment of Indigenous Australians over the Last Century
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History of the Treatment of Indigenous Australians over the Last Century
We tackled the History of the Treatment of Indigenous Australians over the Last Century in
Australia1. From the analysis, I established that the study portrayed the act of the assimilation of
the foreign cultures to the aboriginal people of Australia. In essence, there was the demand by
the external forces for the individual to give up on their learning while at the same time adopt the
foreign cultures as well as western norms2. The motive behind this was to ensure that the
aboriginals of the Australia State were all assimilated and adopted the western cultures and
practices in the process. The norm regarding the assimilation was developed and established as a
mandatory formal policy for the government in the makeable 19513. Notably, most of the
children of the Australian aboriginals were taken away from their native land. The happenings
which the kids underwent when they were taken by the foreigners decisively triggered my
overall outrage. The research established these kids underwent certain harsh treatments in that
they were not given access to decent housing and education.
Furthermore, I also depicted from the study that some of the children were made to work in the
houses and the farms of the whites as slaves whereas others underwent sexual abuses as well as
terrible sinful acts in the process. Precisely, most of the Aboriginals were informed and forced to
lie to the kids that they were being taken away to acquire better education. Instead, most of the
1 Cuningham, Will, Jodie McVernon, Michael J. Lydeamore, Ross M. Andrews, Jonathan Carapetis, Therese
Kearns, Danielle Clucas, Roslyn Gundjirryirr Dhurrkay, Steven YC Tong, and Patricia T. Campbell. "High burden
of infectious disease and antibiotic use in early life in Australian Aboriginal communities." Australian and New
Zealand journal of public health (2019).
2 Hamilton, Paula. "Sale of the century?: memory and historical consciousness in Australia." In Memory, History,
Nation, pp. 136-152. Routledge, 2017.
3 Hibbeler, Russell C., and Tan Kiang. Structural analysis. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2015.

children were turned into slaves and forced to work for the Caucasian families4. Thus, most the
children underwent psychological torture knowing that they were living in a community full of
lies both from their parent and relatives as a whole.
How do you think this history should impact the ethical practice of engineering?
Our team also was able to establish that interconnected amicable resources also have ethical
considerations as far as the analysis in history is concerned. The past commentary on the same
norm depicted that there are many waterways which we determined to have not only the
dreaming track but also the songlines5. This we used to depict the linkages existing between the
various indigenous groups in the community. We also considered the evaluation of the other
related resources. Some of the other resources we came across included the groundwater aquifer,
rock holes as well as freshwater springs. However, we were able to establish that they may have
significant impacts on the cultural, social as well as economic inputs to makeable indigenous
people in the area.
Another ethical consideration was on the management decisions, and this primarily affected the
indigenous dependent values, and it cut across both the territory borders and cross state. We also
established from the study that the cultural values more so on the landscape scale could lead to
the overlook of the resources management. In essence, the evaluation of the control in the
4 Leet, Kenneth, Chia-Ming Uang, and Anne M. Gilbert. Fundamentals of structural analysis. Chichester:
McGraw-Hill, 2012.
5 McDonald, Robert I., Katherine F. Weber, Julie Padowski, Tim Boucher, and Daniel Shemie. "Estimating
watershed degradation over the last century and its impact on water-treatment costs for the world’s large
cities." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 32 (2016): 9117-9122.