History of Treatment of Indigenous Australians

Running head: REFLECTIVE WRITING
The history of the treatment
of Indigenous Australians
over the last century

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Introduction
The paper will help in introducing the description, interpretation, evaluation, and plan regarding
the history of the treatment provided to the indigenous Australians in the past decades. I will
reflect the situation with my learnings regarding the bad health of the indigenous Australians and
the irrelevant treatment provided to them from the government. The paper will also help in
providing reflection on the impact generated by history upon the ethical practice of engineering
practices. The paper will follow the DIEP framework which will help in describing, interpreting,
evaluating the situation and it will also provide planning of applying the ethical practices in
future.
Describe
The history of the indigenous Australians started near about 65000 years ago when the
population was increasing in Australia. The history of treatment provided to the people is of
great importance as it helps in evaluating the procedures and methods that were followed at that
time. The facts evaluated throughout history critically reflects the that the life expectancy of the
aboriginal was expected to be 17-20 years lesser as compared with the other Australians (Arnold,
Hoy & Wang, 2016). I have gathered the information that the aboriginal babies were four times
more prone to death as compared with the non-aboriginal babies. The suicide rate was found to
be six times higher within the aboriginals, and the infant mortality rate was over three times. The
elder aboriginals were not provided with proper food and shelter in the past by the concerned
regional council, and it started in malnutrition which significantly affected the health of the
aboriginals in Australia (Axelsson, Kukutai & Kippen, 2016). This was one of the reasons for the
development of mesothelioma.
The most exciting thing I witnessed was that it was crucial for the council at that time to arrange
suitable treatment methods or procedure for the patients. One thing that I realized was the
aboriginal people were suffering from various types of deadly diseases like smallpox, influenza,
and tuberculosis and these were found to be the major causes for their deaths. A significant issue
that was prevailing among the people was violence, and this was mainly due to the rise of several
diseases that led to the death of many people (Azzopardi et al., 2018). Also, I felt that the
starvation was one of the significant causes that lead to traumatization among the people.

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