Impact of Australian Cultural Institutions on Service Delivery Report

This report examines service delivery within the context of Australian cultural institutions. It highlights the significance of cultural safety and diversity, focusing on key institutions such as aged care, health, education, and legal systems. The report analyzes the impact of these institutions, along with government policies, on service delivery, emphasizing the importance of addressing issues related to inequality, and the role of the family structure in shaping individual life chances. The report also underscores the government's role in protecting citizens' rights and regulating the economy. The report references key academic sources to support its analysis, including the impact of cultural diplomacy, the design of Indigenous studies curriculum, and the dynamics of social and cultural development.

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Australia is a country of various cultures, life expectations and experiences where it is
essential to address cultural safety and diversity issues with social and cultural institutions. In
Australia, the major social and cultural institutions are aged care, health, education, religious,
legal and political systems, family, media, work, and labour market. It also consists of issues
that are advocacy for clients, inequality, government policy, unemployment and power in
relation to work. These issues are in the community services clients and industry looking
towards the policies under placement agency and addressing issues with the raise of practices
(Carey & Prince, 2015).
In Australian society, the function of one of the important institutions from
perspective of sociology are regulating reproduction and sexual behaviour, protecting and
nurturing children, passing of culture generation to generation, and providing production and
consumption unit stability that depends on the economy’s type. Also, Family can be known
as social position or status determinant with the flow of inheritance. Moreover, it is a factor to
examine life chances of an individual in Australia (Ang, Isar, & Mar, 2015). Other than this,
government performs the functions in modern societies as well that are protecting and
preserving society from internal and external threats. It also consists of supporting values by
encouraging citizens with the help of education and socialisation in the society.
In Australia, other functions performed in related to major social and cultural
institutions in connection to government are regulating the economy, protecting the citizens’
rights, producing goods and services, and resolving and supervising conflicts and maintaining
order as well (Sorokin, 2017).

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References
Ang, I., Isar, Y., & Mar, P. (2015). Cultural diplomacy: beyond the national interest?
International Journal of Cultural Policy, 21(4), 365-381.
Carey, M., & Prince, M. (2015). Designing an Australian Indigenous Studies curriculum for
the twenty-first century: Nakata's ‘cultural interface’, standpoints and working beyond
binaries. Higher Education Research & Development, 34(2), 270-283.
Sorokin, P. (2017). Social and Cultural Dynamics. New York: Routledge.