Impact of Colonisation on Indigenous Australians and their Education

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Introduction
In Australia, the colonisation has a devastating effect over the indigenous people living in
the land for more than thousands of years. The colonisation that included the context of
language, culture and identity had showered negative impact over the indigenous Australians.
According to the statistics, the lingering injustice of the context of colonisation included
dispossession, exploitation, displacement, assimilation and segregation (Schwab, 2018). This
nature over the Indigenous Australians were being justified by the British Colonies that never
acknowledged, respected or valued the Indigenous Australians.
The trauma caused by the effects of colonisation included the loss of culture, violence,
the loss of land to the Indigenous population. There has numerous of government policies like
forceful removal of children from parents has been often passed through generation within the
communities with some of the major devastating impacts. In the context of history and the
governmental policies, the Indigenous people faced segregation, dispossession and assimilation.
Some of the challenges face by the indigenous Australians on the regards of the governmental
policies included separation from children, banning in the town after 6pm, barred from hospitals,
health care facilities and educational institutions and forcible employment in the home of non
indigenous with withheld earnings from government (Hunter and Schwab, 2018). Furthermore
the indigenous Australians were not also allowed in the public areas without prior permission.
Some of the continues effects of assimilation and segregation within the classroom for the
indigenous students included harsh talks and negative attitudes towards them, they were also
forced to follow Eurocentric curriculum and were often insulted and looked down upon
regarding their cultures. The essay will briefly map the key points targeting the historical focus,

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recommendation expected.
Impact of colonisation
The colonisation has resulted in racism, inequality and the disruption among the
Indigenous Australian cultures. The colonisation has been one of the most detrimental regarding
the determinants of health that still contributes to impact the health outcomes of aboriginals
significantly. Some of the key aspects of colonisation that negatively impacted the Indigenous
health includes the following (Bennett, Redfern and Zubrzycki, 2017). These historical events
furthermore affected the languages, the culture and the identity of the Indigenous Australians
including segregation, assimilation and dispossession including the context of the stolen
generations.
According to the history of Resistance, the indigenous people actively resisted the
invasion of British people which resulted in a brutal massacre commonly known as the frontier
wars. The year 1960 witnessed numerous of indigenous families breaking down their resistance
(Bodkin-Andrews and Carlson, 2016). The assimilation policy included the scenario where many
of the Indigenous children were snatched from their mothers and family and was being
assimilated to the non-indigenous homes or the areas that are under the care of state. These
children were the stolen generations who are still searching for their current families. From
changing their name and hindering them to permit their honour towards culture and languages,
the indigenous Australians suffered violence and discrimination. The Indigenous Australians
mostly have grown up with the trauma regarding the abusive environments (Axelsson, Kukutai
and Kippen, 2016). Some of the other factors include the transmission of poverty together with