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Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Cultural Analysis

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We foster an understanding of the fundamental importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture to the identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We respect the strength of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, families, communities and culture that have survived the confrontation of colonisation and dispossession for over two centuries.
Our services believe that we need to be continually building a foundation of respect and understanding all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families of Australia to provide a service that is more effective, responsive, sustainable and culturally appropriate.
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‘Ganyjuu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Family Support Services were established in June 2005. It offers Indigenous Family Support services in the Logan, Browns Plains and Beaudesert regions.’ Staff members at Ganyjuu are committed to maintaining a high class leading Indigenous Community Corporation which is dedicated to improving Indigenous family support needs in these areas. Ganyjuu works hard to offer the best culturally appropriate family support services to Indigenous and non-Indigenous families who care for children.

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This can be done by creating an official committee with both Aboriginals and non-Aboriginal members to ensure that different viewpoints are heard and incorporated with improving this policy. In order to be able to accomplish this, a cultural competency must be emphasized more not only within the committee but also throughout the child and family service system (MCYS,

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The legacy of the role of social work and welfare services within the implementation of government policies in the past can still compromise relationships within communities, social workers are responsible for ensuring our practice is culturally responsive, safe and sensitive to stop this perpetuation of distrust in support services. As social workers it is important to commit to reconciliation, to addressing divisions and inequities between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australian’s and improving these relationships. The strength and resilience of these communities are impacted by multiple problems including historical and ongoing dispossession, marginalisation and racism, along with past policies of forced removal and cultural assimilation all negatively contributing to many of the social issues we find affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today (Australian Association of Social Workers, 2017). As social workers it is a large role of ours to familiarise and understand the organisations, services and agencies who are planning and/or delivering Indigenous-specific services and to work alongside these groups,

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It cannot be denied that our indigenous population has suffered severely since the colonisation of Australia. While the movement towards reconciliation is undoubtedly gaining widespread support, unfortunately many misconceptions are still prevalent and the future of many indigenous Australians is still uncertain. Disadvantage is still experienced by an unacceptable number of the population. Statistically, indigenous people have poorer health, opportunities for education, life expectancy, employment options and the majority live in the remote areas of Australia. As well as this

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Demonstrating an understanding when communicating effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is extremely critical as the negative impacts of past racial and economic disadvantages is something that is still fresh within the minds of indigenous Australians. A series of past government policies, including segregation, displacement and separation of families has contributed to heart ache and torment which has caused mistrust held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people towards government agencies and non-indigenous Australians. In today's dominant Western society, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to be a marginalised and socially disadvantaged. Compared to other Australians, Aboriginal and Torres

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Aboriginal spirituality as determined by the Dreaming  The important tenet that reinforces Aboriginal spirituality is a idea known as the Dreaming  Dreaming is the unseen spirit world. It is not incomprehensible and in the past. It is realism ‐ Dreaming is expressed in ceremonies, dance, song and art. It is both individual and communal 

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Cultural competence is seen as being able to master a skill-set (Barlow, Reading, & Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, 2008) rather than analyzing power imbalances, institutional discrimination, colonization and colonial relationships (NAHO, 2006 as cited in Charlotte Loppie’s presentation). “Cultural safety emphasizes relationships of trust in which the patient determines whether the care is ‘safe’” (Barlow, Reading, & Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, 2008, p. 3). I really like the term “relational care” introduced in the as the Barlow, Reading, and Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (2008) article as the term “is rooted in the connections within and relationships among Aboriginal people and health care providers” which is grounded in the traditional teachings and values of Indigenous Peoples (p.

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Inquiry Essay No one should have to go through the pain of having a family member or friend stolen from their lives or ripped out of their home and murdered for no reason. As this issue has been going on unsolved for several decades now, people feel more unsafe walking around at night, not only in the areas with higher crime rate but also everyday places. We do not want to think or worry that one day we will get a phone call from one of our friends parents asking if we know were so and so are or have them tell us they died/ went missing. We feel that the government believes their doing everything they can to keep everyone feel safe but in reality most of us do not, no one says anything because we do not know what to say or who to go to with

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Belonging to the land and to each other is fundamental to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their culture. Connections with the land, families, clans and communities are at the core of Aboriginality. It is through these connections that nurture belonging from which Aboriginal peoples identities and cultures emerge.

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Imagine our country — a multicultural haven for immigrants seeking refuge — completely bare of asylum seekers. Imagine a country without a varying array of culture, without acceptance of each and every race, without knowledge and appreciation for the arts, ideas, social behaviour, and so forth of other cultures. This concept which would lacerate the deep foundations of which this country is built upon and develop consequences that politicians and citizens have not foreseen. Without the aforementioned multitude of cultural components, the enrichment of this country would be slim. Along with casting aside the culture immigrants bring into Australia, furthermore political and economic dilemmas materialise.

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This state of being part aboriginals has driven their identity in crisis. Indeed they have possessed a unique Aboriginal consciousness that have made them to reclaim their lost voice. Their literature has been used as a platform

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Indigenous Australian youth still face numerous difficulties growing up in a modern Australian society, even though they are living in a time of ‘equality’ for all religions, races and genders. This paper examines the main cultural influences for indigenous youth, and challenges they face growing up. In particular, it will explore the ways in which Indigenous youth today continue to be affected, connected and interdependent to both a dominant white culture and indigenous culture. It also includes the reasons why the indigenous youth of Australia continue to be marginalized, oppressed and stereotyped while growing up in a society that claims to be an egalitarian democratic country. Examples of Indigenous youth from the film ‘Yolngu Boy’ are used to explore this topic.

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The concept of family and kinship for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is to live within an extended family system. What this means is that they include distant relatives. Family is a fundamental part to an Aboriginal society because they are the ones that teach you how to live, how to interact with the land, and how to treat people. Aboriginal people rarely call their family members by name, instead they use relationship terms such as mother, sister, brother, aunt or cousin.

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In order to develop a child’s identity in accordance with both the EYLF and an Aboriginal perspective whilst also supporting children’s awareness of Aboriginal cultures and practices through a curriculum that supports children in learning about the land, earth, plants and animals, it is also important how we as educators will support this knowledge to grow (McKnight, et al., 2010). According to Harrison (2010), Aboriginal history plays a key role not only with Aboriginal children but also with non-Aboriginal children and the importance that everyone should learn about the importance of Aboriginal history. As well as educators developing a curriculum that incorporates the Aboriginal community in their area so as to include local histories, local

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The following story was published anonymously in an Aboriginal newspaper [15]. Like many of our mob, my first label was ‘abandoned’, then ‘ward of the State’ which was the start of a journey that for many years I felt wasn’t mine to have. Years later, when I found my way home, both parents had passed on, although the stories and labels that I grew up believing were a misrepresentation of the actual truth.

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