Question

this section you must address the following:

1. Summarise in 100 words, the different cultures that exist within Australia’s Indigenous population, and the importance they place on law and kinship

2. In 20 words for each, explain how these issues can affect Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people:

o Social expectations o Politics o Economics

3. Reflect on the impact of your own culture, and the systems and structures of the western healthcare system and state in 100 words, how these impact on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and their engagement with health services.

Answer 1

1) Australia's Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups exemplified by the over 250 different language groups spread across the nation.

There were over 500 different clan groups or 'nations' around the continent, many with distinctive cultures, beliefs and languages. Today, Indigenous people make up 2.4 per cent of the total Australian population

Aboriginal Australians are split into two groups: Aboriginal peoples, who are related to those who already inhabited Australia when Britain began colonizing the island in 1788, and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who descend from residents of the Torres Strait Islands, a group of islands that is part of modern-day

A person's position in the kinship system establishes their relationship to others and to the universe, prescribing their responsibilities towards other people, the land and natural resources. Traditional kinship structures remain important in many Indigenous communities today.

2) The kinship system is a feature of Aboriginal social organisation and family relationships across Central Australia. It is a complex system that determines how people relate to each other and their roles, responsibilities and obligations in relation to one another, ceremonial business and land.

In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, the concept of kinship is complex, and has wide implications in Indigenous life and social structure. Kinship determines how everyone relates to one another, as well as their roles, responsibilities and obligations regarding one another, the environment and ceremony.

3) It helped the aboriginals to get the benefit of western education and Technology which allows them to establish a connection from the world outside. Not only this, but the European connection also had a brutal impact on aboriginal culture, laws, society, lives, and the community places where they used to live.