* Recommend | * 513 | * * Tweet 0 * * Eddie Mabo fought and won a 10-year battle on land rights. Source: Supplied GAIL Mabo was a teenager when her father Eddie‚ a proud Torres Strait Islander‚ sat her down and promised her: "One day‚ my girl‚ all of Australia is going to know my name." It was 1985. Three years earlier‚ the man from remote Mer Island at the top of Australia launched a bold land rights claim in the High Court‚
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Australia Day is a public holiday held throughout the country on January 26‚ although celebrated as a wondrous occasion by many‚ it actually portrays the arrival of the First Fleet convict flotilla at Botany Bay‚ 1788. European settlers dispossessed the traditional owners of Australia‚ for this reason many Indigenous people refer to it as “Invasion Day” or “Survival Day.” As Professor Dodson agrees “We have to have a date that’s more inclusive than January 26.” The changing of the date of Australia
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Families and Communities Research Methodologies: * Phone Interviews * Internet Observation 1) Meaning of Support Services and the purpose. Support networks are networks of personal or professional contacts available to a person or organization for practical or moral support when needed‚ it includes facilities and people who interact and remain a confidential communication style for mutual assistance. The purpose of certain services in communities is to provide available support
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AND MISSION Our vision is to strengthen and build the capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians through recognising their role as key stakeholders in our business and franchised stores and ensuring our workforce and operations are representative of the diversity of the communities in which we‚ and our franchisees‚ operate. We want to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to create long-term sustainable opportunities that contribute to closing
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WRITING AN INTRODUCTION FOR AN ESSAY Good introductions provide: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. a clear and detailed map of what is in the essay; a thesis statement - a statement of the writer’s main argument; a sentence which delimits the scope of the essay; interesting statements that engage the reader’s attention; and background information. ACTIVITY 1 Read through Introduction A. Identify which of the sentences perform the functions listed above. Then go to the end of this information flyer and check how well
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Great health disparity is seen between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people compared to non-indigenous people in relation to health outcome and life expectancy. The health disadvantage in indigenous group is mainly due to low employment rate‚ education‚ poor nutrition and physical activity and lack of access to health services (Indigenous health AIHW2017). Improvement in the health status of the indigenous group is a major challenge for the Australian government as well as for specific health
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An injury is classified as an external force (event) which causes physical harm to an individuals body. Minor injuries could lead to repairable damage‚ while more serious conditions may lead to reduced functioning of the body‚ permanent disability or in some cases death. Injuries may be accidental such as: Motor vehicle accidents - Burns Drownings - Sporting injuries Falls - Poisoning Or they could
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A Holistic approach is fundamental in the aspect of Health and Wellness‚ not just for a sound mind but also for a fit body. As such‚ the endeavor to a better living is not without it’s faults. Australians struggle everyday to attain that continuum with programs and activities that better enable them to meet their goals‚ and one of those issues are Diabetes‚ for which part most are Type 2. It is a potentially preventable disease we’re the core causes of it are usually inadequate physical activity
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Education and Communities (2014)‚ around one-fifth of all students learning English as a second language in NSW government schools and over 30% are from non-English background. EAL/D students are those who are immigrants‚ refugee‚ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Australian-born students whose first language is not English (New South Wales Department of Education and Communities‚ 2014). Similar to students from other disadvantaged groups‚ some EAL/D students have experienced challenges in learning
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term Mabo refers to all issues relating to the Australian High Court judgement in the Mabo v. Queensland case. On the 3rd of June‚ 1992‚ after a decade long lawsuit‚ the High Court ruled that the land title of the Indigenous Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders is recognised at common law. This Indigenous Peoples land title comes from the continuation within common law of their rights over land which pre dates the European colonisation of Australia. In the absence of an effective extinguishment
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