What are some of the challenges faced by the Aboriginal culture when receiving services?

What are some of the challenges faced by the Aboriginal culture when receiving services?

Communities are neglected, exhausted

• Lack of services. Communities lack medical and disability services, and often have no Home or Community Care services.
• Lack of medical care.
• Little education.
• High unemployment.
• Staff exhaustion.
• Decaying infrastructure.
• Broken families.
• High crime rates.

What are some of the issues that have impacted on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since Colonisation?

Colonisation has resulted in inequity, racism and the disruption of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. In fact, it has been the most detrimental of the determinants of health that continues to significantly influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes today.

What problems do Aboriginal people have?

The problems include: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are less likely to complete high school, have higher rates of drug and alcohol consumption as well as domestic violence, and on average live ten years less than their non-indigenous counterparts.

What are some of the issues that threaten the existence of Uluru Kata Tjuta?

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• Threat: Climate change.
• Threat: Tourism.
• Threat: Sports.
• Threat: Development.
• Threat: Resources industry.
• Threat: Politicians.
• Threat: Bush fires.
• Threat: Cremated remains.

Why is it important to acknowledge and respect the impact of events and issues in Aboriginal history?

This understanding will lead to a deeper insight into Aboriginal culture and way of life. It is furthermore important to recognise and acknowledge the difficulties that may have been faced along with the continued discrimination, and how this may affect the current situation.

What is the problem with Uluru?

The final climbers faced a delayed start due to dangerously strong winds – one of many reasons Uluru has been closed to people wishing to reach the top over the years. The walk can be hazardous, with dozens dying since the 1950s.

What political issues affect aboriginal?

Indigenous Australians suffer disproportionately high levels of domestic violence and over-representation in the justice system. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience extreme levels of racism in Australia.

What are some of the historical issues that have affected the way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders interact with other Australians?

Since the colonisation of Australia by European settlers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have experienced extreme hardships, ranging from the loss of traditional culture and homelands to the forced removal of children and denial of citizenship rights.

Why is it important to develop a better understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the impact of those issues?

What was the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal culture?

European colonisation had a devastating impact on Aboriginal communities and cultures. Aboriginal people were subjected to a range of injustices, including mass killings or being displaced from their traditional lands and relocated on missions and reserves in the name of protection. Cultural practices were denied, and subsequently many were lost.

Why are there so many threats to Aboriginal land?

Indigenous people have to fight on many fronts to keep alive their heritage, history and sacred sites. You’ll be surprised how many threats endanger Aboriginal land. Indigenous people have to fight on many fronts to keep alive their heritage, history and sacred sites.

What happens if indigenous people are not looking after the land?

What happens if indigenous peoples are not looking after the land? From the previous section it is already clear that indigenous care changes the land and, over millennia, influences how animals and plants react to human interference. Researchers from the University College London found another striking change: the temperature on Earth.

Why are Aboriginal people so important to Australia?

For Aboriginal people, their traditional Country and what it represents in terms of their history, survival, resilience and cultural and spiritual identity gives them much to take pride in. In the dominant Australian culture, land is thought of as a commodity to be used, enjoyed and owned — as a place to build a home or grow food or develop a park.