Aborigines Part2

Part 2- Big Essay

Introduction:

G.S.: Aborigines’ outrageous social problems and current unemployability are a direct consequence of the policies adopted by the Australian government.

Def.: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are also often referred to as Indigenous Australians.

Pos.: This essay will discuss the disadvantages and advantages effect of the policies adopted by the Australian government is a direct consequence on Aborigine.

Scope 1) The disadvantages

Negative effect of the policies adopted on Aboriginal people/families.

The problems are direct consequences on the stolen generations.

The policies adopted have effect on society of Aboriginal.

Aborigines’ social problems are a direct consequence of the policies.

2) The advantages:

Aborigines people as a way of improving their way of life.

The Stolen Generations lead to solve the problem of justice and racist on societies in Australia.

They are given the rights and responsibilities of civilization.

Body:

Disadvantages

TS1. Negative effect of the policies adopted on Aboriginal people/families.

SS1.1 There have been many studies which show the damage caused by the forced removal on Indigenous communities.

EV1(1) The most tragic aspect of the assimilation policy was that it led to many children being taken away from their parents and families and placed in foster care or groups homes(Skwirk Interactive Schooling n.d.). It is estimated that 100,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and raised in homes or adopted by white families, up until the 1960s (Reconciliaction 2012).

EV1(2) People who were members of the Stolen Generations are more likely to suffer from depression, have worse health and a shorter life span than other Indigenous people, and are more likely to be imprisoned than other Indigenous people. For example 50% of deaths investigated by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were of Indigenous people who have been removed from their families as children (Reconciliaction 2007).

SS1.2 Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were placed with white families did not find out about their background until late in life.

EV1.2 Disconnection from land and language meant loss of culture for many. One of the people interviewed for the Bringing Them Home Report said: “A lot of people say that they don’t know what exactly they are, whether they’re white or they’re black. Where are exactly they belonging?” (Reconciliaction 2007).

SS1.3 The impact of the Stolen Generations has passed on to the families of Aboriginal

EV1.3 Who suffered the loss of the children, and to the next generation – whose parents were part of the Stolen Generations (Reconciliaction 2007)

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EV1.3 Who suffered the loss of the children, and to the next generation – whose parents were part of the Stolen Generations (Reconciliaction 2007)

TS2 The problems are direct consequences on the stolen generations.

SS2.1 The stolen generations have legal problems.

EV2.1 For Aboriginal ex-footballer Sydney Jackson’s “exact age cannot be guaranteed” because “no reference to the birth of Sydney Jackson can be found”. His birthday was “simply assumed” to be July 1, 1944. As a consequence people like Sydney have problems applying for legal documents such as passports (Creative Spirits n.d.).

SS2.2 Effects of removal on children’s brains which children have been removed from their mother.

EV2.2 Children who grow up without their caring mothers, in institutions where one nurse is responsible for a group of infants, “stop developing intellectually, are unable to control their emotions, and instead rock endlessly back and forth, or make strange hand movements. They also enter ‘turned-off’ states and are indifferent to the world, unresponsive to people who try to hold and comfort them (Creative Spirits n.d.).

SS2.3 They are mistrusting everyone.

EV2.3 Aboriginal elder Prof Lowitja O’Donhoghue for example has a tendency to hold something of herself back from everyone but a selected few. Having been brought up in an institution she never had a family in the traditional sense (Creative Spirits n.d.).

TS3 The policies adopted have effect on society of Aboriginal.

SS3.1 The justice, racist, white and black people that are the problems under the policies of Australian government

EV3.1 The conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard was chastised by the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. At issue was mandatory sentencing in northern Australia, where judges must send offenders to prison for certain offences. According to the Committee, this system appeared to target offences that were committed disproportionately by indigenous Australians, leading to a racially divisive impact on their rate of incarceration.’ In other words, blacks commit more crime, so they go to gaol more than whites. And this is racist (Duffy 2000).

SS3.2 Racism is an extraordinarily potent issue in Australian politics these days.

EV3.2 Although only about 2 per cent of people are Aborigines, issues involving them have become one of the main points of difference between the two major political parties. The latest explosion occurred earlier this month over a phenomenon known colloquially as ‘the stolen generations ‘, which is now the predominant racial issue in the country (Duffy 2000).

SS3.3 The problem is that under the Australian government policies these people are now much…

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