... All people have their own culturally determined and socially structured health care systems, some more complex than others but all suited to and working for their specific society. 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 for the ... colonisation their whole health care system was severely affected as their traditional healing methods could not fight such unknowns. All epidemics such whether smallpox or influenz...

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Today, thousands of Aborigines face a life of family breakdowns, drug and alcohol abuse, violence and mental torment caused by separation from their parents at a young age. On the 29th of April 1770, when a small vessel, Endeavour, first entered Botany Bay, the lives of the native inhabitants of the land, which was to be named Australia, changed forever. Although they were unaware of it ... Natives were slaughtered in the course of settling this great country of ours. This is discounting all the Aboriginal deaths from poisoning; at the time it was acceptable to sell Aborigines poisoned flour ...

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