Illness, Disease and 18th Century Indigenous Australians

Crime, criminality and colonialism are all intricately tied together in the Australian Indigenous context. ... This paper will define crime, criminality and colonialism, explore the history of British law and how this has impacted on Indigenous Australians, the present relationship between criminalisation of Indigenous Australians, police and the justice system, rates of incarceration, and how Indigenous Australians are still disadvantaged when it comes to the law. ... The tools used during colonisation of Australia had a deep impact on Indigenous Australians. These tools used by the British ...

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How has the Geography of Australia's Indigenous Population Altered in the Last Half Century? ... Since European settlers arrived in Australian in the late 18th Century, Aborigines were treated as sub-human. ... Many Aborigines also fell ill, unable to cope with diseases brought by the settlers. There was approximately 350,000 Aborigines in Australia in the late 18th Century, a number which had dropped significantly by the start of the 20th Century, leading many of the white population of Australia to believe that the Aborigines would eventually die out. ... The last half-century ...

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With the Endeavour more or less a part of Britain, brought with it not only British men, women and firepower but more importantly British Culture, its western influence, its ideologies and diseases which were to impact critically on the health and wellbeing of the indigenous people and dramatically decreasing their health and wellbeing status. ... In aboriginal Australia, the indigenous health care system is part of a unique complex, which includes descriptions of well being, explanations of illness causation, healing practices and prerequisite social behaviours f...

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But, you may say, we asked you to speak of Indigenous Australia, what does that have to do with a land of one's own. ... I am the voice of Indigenous Australia. ... The word, identity, comes to mind when contemplating aboriginal Australia. ... Though the most appalling of statistics is the potentially preventable death rate for indigenous children was more than 3 times that of non-indigenous children. ... Specifically, the issue of over-crowded housing has been identified as contributing to the spread of infectious diseases. ...

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Research has shown that Indigenous Australians continue to suffer an inequality of health and a greater burden of disease than the rest of the australian population. ... Indigenous Australians also suffer a higher burden of emotional distress and possible mental illness than that experienced by the wider community. Indigenous Australians suffer from many diseases and disabilities at a far more significant rate than non-indigenous. Cardiovascular disease is the largest contributor to ill health experienced by Indigenous Australians, it is also the leading cause of death among Indigenous Austr...

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The Social determinants of indigenous health have varied considerably over the past century. ... However, this was not so for the indigenous people of Australia. ... Before colonization, indigenous people were known to have been in excellent health and were free from disease. ... Not only is it the epidemic diseases, which kill, it is also the risks of lung cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and cardiovascular disease, which if it weren't for the westernisation of Australia in 1788, and the introduction of tobacco and alcohol to the indigenous people, there wouldn't be an increasi...

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These were just some of the many successful and unsuccessful attempts that took place in Australia over the last century. Success in these efforts refers to whether or not the policy or action made a positive influence or difference to the indigenous people of Australia. ... In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, the educated opinion in Australia was generally that the full-blood tribal Aborigine represented a dying race, doomed in the fullness of time to extinction. ... Therefore this attempt by the Australian society to address indigenous problems, was unsuccessful, and in so...

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Assimilation and Genocide of Indigenous Australia "Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. ... In this paper, I will examine the experience of the indigenous people of Australia and the lack of action on behalf of the Australian government. ... Mass killing of the indigenous populace was a fixture of colonial Australia since first contact (Saul, Ben p 4-19). ... With the convicts, soldiers and settlers came diseases to which Aboriginal people had no resistance - typhoid, flu, smallpox and venereal disease (Chesterman, J. and Galligan, "The Citizenship Divide in Colo...

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However, today, socio-economic statistics suggest that indigenous Australians have poorer health, poorer levels of education, higher unemployment rates, and higher rates of poverty than non-Aboriginal Australians. 38% of Aboriginals live in need of housing, as opposed to non non-indigenous Australians, of whom, 17% are in need of housing. Indigenous families are 20 times more likely to be homeless than non-indigenous families. Death from diabetes is twelve times more common in Aboriginals than in non-indigenous Australians, and almost three quarters of the children living in the Kimberley regi...

• Word Count: 1082
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate