UNCC300 Essay: Justice & Change - Indigenous Inclusion in Australia

This essay critically examines the issue of limited participation for indigenous communities in Australia concerning health, education, and social inclusion, where the shared responsibility for the common good is not adequately realized. It highlights the historical and ongoing challenges faced by indigenous Australians, including disparities in healthcare access, educational attainment, and social integration, attributing these issues to a lack of attention to basic human rights. The essay then proposes several strategies to address these challenges at the professional, local, and global levels, emphasizing the importance of community engagement, advocacy, and a sophisticated understanding of the Common Good and its relationship to principles of human dignity. Recommendations include ensuring access to early childhood education, bridging gaps in literacy and numeracy, increasing funding for aboriginal education and employment opportunities, improving healthcare policies and access, and implementing policies that target the basic human rights of the community people. The essay concludes by stressing the need for government action to break the cycle of disadvantage and improve cultural wellbeing and socio-economic outcomes for indigenous communities.

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The indigenous aboriginal communities in the country of Australia are reported to be the
most diverse population under the factors of culture, linguistic and experiment. The national
statistics provided one of the important geographic differences for the provision of their health
care facilities and the determinants of the education and social inclusiveness of the community
people (John Paul II 1998). The disadvantage of the indigenous community is multidimensional
and is generally varied from the other issues of the community problems in Australia. The
assignment highlights the challenges arising from the notion of the lack of proper health care
facilities, social inclusion and the absence of the provision of the basic education system in
connection to the indigenous disadvantages in Australia. One of the major factor of the
responsibility for the common good and the welfare of the community people in the domain of
the implication and the practice of the basic human rights for the indigenous community people
or the aboriginal community of the country is the lack of their addressing of their problems,
discrimination and non implication of the basic inalienable rights as human (Jaravani et al.
2016). The paper focuses on the effective addressing of the disparities of the health and
wellbeing together with the absence of basic education and instances of social inclusion among
the aboriginal indigenous group of people which is a long overdue (Audi 2012). The government
of Australia has also been far more reluctant in designing and delivering proper health care
facilities and education to the community people targeting the issues they are facing that
furthermore challenges the norms of the universal human rights. With an increasing rate of the
worsening health status of the indigenous group of people in the country, certain disadvantages
like the poverty, issues of lower life expectancies and the lack of the improvement of the
disparities are understood and addressed in a partial basis underpinning a slow progress dragging
the notion of the inequalities the community people face in their daily living.

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The discussion above illustrates over a variety of categories and topics regarding the
disadvantages and the challenges the community is facing on the domain of the health care
provisions, the education system and the issues related to social inclusion (Unesco 2015). One of
the major challenges that connect all the issues the community people are facing is the lack of
the importance of the basic human rights. Innumerable instances and issues of the community
people facing high end challenges regarding the propagation and receiving of the proper health
care, education and engagement in the society are the factors that need to be addressed to
implement a social change of the wellbeing of the community people (Raman et al., 2017).
Some of the recommended strategies and the proposed measures for targeting the issues
of the indigenous community people in Australia are as follows.
Various aspects regarding the disadvantages that are often interrelated and well recognized
highlight the poor health and the accommodation towards the poor educational systems of the
indigenous Australian population (Annas 2011). The government of the New South Wales
highlights three of the main targets focusing of the need to close the gap of the indigenous
education and the welfare together with their proper standard of living and the employment
status. These includes
 To ensure that all the young indigenous children in the community, especially in the
remote communities have proper access to the early childhood education and training
facilities (Melé 2009).
 To ensure to remove and halve the gap for the students belonging to the indigenous group
in the context of reading, writing and the numeracy purposes.

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 Funding for the aboriginal education and the recruitment facilities from the indigenous
community group to encourage the employment opportunities that will furthermore direct
a healthy and good standard of living for the community people (Hendrickx et al. 2016).
 Education is one of the most powerful tool that abolishes the notion of the poverty and
the violence caused in the community group. The government of the country should
propagate educational training programs to make the community people of the
indigenous group aware of the importance of the education to remove poverty and for the
growth of their employment skills and practices.
In the context of the health care facilities, the reports by the department of the health,
published by the Western Australia explained the fact that effective engagement with the
aboriginal community is one of the most essential and integral factor towards the improvement
of the health and the increasing access of the services and the facilities related to the health care
by the community people (Moyn 2011). Recommendations regarding the health care services
firstly include the improvement of the health related policies for addressing the poor health and
the inability of the indigenous people towards the access of the heath facilities. It is thus essential
for the government of the country to allocate additional funding to remove the barriers for the
access of the health services in the remote and rural areas.
 Furthermore strategic leadership and measures by the governmental agencies for the
improvement of the wellbeing and the health of the community people needs to be
addressed.
 To enhance effective communication among aboriginal health and the professionals for
ensuring safety, health and ethical quality care.

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 The government of the country must introduce facilities such as the electronic patient
record systems for recording the data of the health disparities of the indigenous
community group.
The accumulation of the disadvantages of the indigenous community people is enhanced by
their increasing issues and challenges of social inclusion in the country (Abs.gov.au. 2018).
Some of the basic recommendations and strategic measures towards the abolition and
improvement of the issue can be the development of the implementation of the policies and the
legislator measures by the government targeting the basic human rights of the community
people.
It is thus the task of the government to sort out the issues and the problems associated
with the contex6 of the poverty towards the finding of the remedies for the abstract conditions
like the lack of the social capital and the cultural deprivation.
Revision of the policies together with the proper implementation of the policies and the
legal measures is thus essential for effective addressing of the substance abuse in the aboriginal
community.
The disadvantages of the indigenous community people is mostly clearly entrenched due
to the web of the intertwined causation of the circulation for the reinforcing of the disadvantages
and the potentially lead vicious cycle that the government of the country needs to break. This
will help the indigenous community towards improved cultural wellbeing and social economic
outcomes.
Moving towards the next millennium one of the most essential issues the indigenous
community people are facing is the lack of proper access towards the health and the care

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facilities targeting and challenging their wellbeing. It is thus essential for targeting and resolving
the aim for the maximization of the success of the recommendations for the indigenous
community people. Importances regarding the development of the performance framework
together with the development of the policies are the factors of concern that the government
should address for the wellbeing of the indigenous group of people.

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