Indigenous Disadvantages And Challenges In Australia

Understanding Advocacy and Community Engagement in Principles of CST and Human Dignity

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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.

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).

The Multidimensional Disadvantages of the Indigenous Community in Australia

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.
• 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.
• 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 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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