Report on Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: An Analysis

This report analyzes the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's work, specifically focusing on the 'Bringing them home' report and its implications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. It examines the historical context of child removal policies, the impact on indigenous communities, and the concept of cultural safety. The report addresses the inquiry's findings on the separation of children from their families, the effects of these separations, and recommendations for addressing the injustices of the past. It also explores the role of government, the Stolen Generation, and the importance of cultural understanding in fostering better services. The report emphasizes the need for self-determination, social justice, and the preservation of indigenous culture, including the use of theatre and performance as a means of communication and reconciliation.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Answer a:.........................................................................................................................................2
Answer b:.........................................................................................................................................3
Answer c:.........................................................................................................................................3
Answer d:.........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
The report will include the discussion about the Human Rights and the Equal Opportunity
Commission that helps in focusing on the different teaching activities. With this, the aim is to
introduce with the issues related to “Bringing them home” report for identifying the knowledge
that one has in relation to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who are from their
families (Koutoukidis, Stainton, & Hughson, 2012). It helps in providing the students with the
information log activities. The high recommendations are about how the teachers consider the
sensitivities around the different teaching of controversial issues which are defined prior to the
distributing materials. The aim is also to focus on the comparison activities which help the
students to develop and understand the differences or the similarities for the indigenous children
who have been separated from their families as well. The major focus is on providing the
children with the knowledge and experiences of the indigenous people. Bringing them Home is
mainly about the inquiry which was in response to increase the concerns among the different
indigenous agencies and communities for the Australian practices of separating the Indigenous
children from families.
Answer a:
The inquiry talks about the indigenous people, government and the former mission staff
representatives (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2010). Along with this, there are foster
and the adoptive parents, academics and the police that has been discussed in the report. The
scope of the inquiry also highlights about the laws, procedures and the policies in the removal of
children and then overviewing the findings related to the difficulty for capturing complexity of
effects. With this, there are recommendations based on the acknowledgement, guarantee against

the repetition, restitution, rehabilitation etc. The discussion about “Bringing them Home” also
highlights about the policies and the practices which are authorized for the removal of the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their respective families. It has been evident
from the inquiry that there are some of the common effects of research which includes:
a. The separation from the primary carer.
b. Problems with the mental and physical health standards.
c. Handling the delinquency and the behavioral standards.
d. Undermining the skills of parenting.
e. Handling the loss of the cultural heritage with broken families and communities.
Answer b:
As per the analysis, it has been seen that the major power to deal with the people from different
race remains under the custody of States. The occupation and the land exploitation, which was
seen in the Norther Territory was mainly achieved through the dispossession of the other
community of indigenous people (Chamberlain et al., 2016). The Aboriginal people were forced
off their land and they have to move for working on the farm stations or the mines, where the
Chinese immigrants were already involved. The farm stations were dependent on the indigenous
labor only.
The Stolen Generation has been mainly to establish the range for supporting and handling the
referral services which could be helpful to assist the people for reconnecting with family,
community, culture and land.

Answer c:
The Cultural Safety is about fostering the climate with the unique history of the indigenous
people who are recognized and respected to provide care and better services without any
discrimination. The cultural safety helps in understanding about how the people are aware of the
statistics which help in indicating about the health and the social disparities between the
indigenous people and non-indigenous people (Libesman, 2015). The examples are related to the
higher suicidal rates where the indigenous people tend to have a poor health problems. The
planning needs to be done to ensure about health systems which requires to examine about the
practices for breaking down the barriers and achieving cultural understanding or responsiveness.
The cultural safety in the workplace could be ensured through focusing over:
a. The reflection on the culture, attitude and the beliefs about the others.
b. clear and the value free or open communication
c. developing the trust
d. Recognizing and then avoiding any of the stereotypical barriers.
Answer d:
The theatre and performance is considered an important social issue which encourage the
different interest and the perspectives (Funston & Herring, 2016). The performers need to work
on developing a different understanding about media where the issues are not discussed but just
closed as final as a print on the page. The empathy is the major communication strategy where
the designing capacity has been mainly to handle the reconciliation planning to understand the
effectiveness. The communication could be enhanced through working in groups and developing

production of pieces. The empathetic design approach will allow the open-ended interpretations
which is based on the experiences, imagination and the collective sharing.
Conclusion
It has been seen that the Australian Human Rights Commission has been able to develop the
different set of activities which focus on providing the teachers with the additional approach to
explore the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Martin et al., 2019). The
understanding is based on the short term and the long-term experiences with skills to explore the
histories and the social justice with better performance and discussion. It has been seen that the
self-management and self-determination is important for the right to autonomy which relates to
the internal and the local affairs. It includes the effective participation in Australian societies and
the cultural distinctiveness or the diversity of the indigenous people. The focus is on the planning
and understanding the social welfare, economic activities, land and resource management which
comes with reforming the indigenous policies and programs. The policies are meant for
monitoring and managing the surveillance of the indigenous lives. The examples are related to
the welfare workers who are employed for inspecting the houses and then monitor the child
attendance at school (Maclean, Hengsen & Stephens, 2017). The officers have a closer
relationship with the police as well.

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