... as there was no way to communicate or negotiate with the small population of natives. Over the past century and indeed the last decade Australia's history is being rewritten with the rejection of the doctrine of terra nullius through the High Court. Recognition of Aboriginal law, native title ... Act (1975) and therefore void and the second being that the plaintiff's claim that native title was acknowledged by the common law of Australia. The decision of the High Court in the Mabo case had significant effect in recognizing the rights of indigenous Australians and their native title .....

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... 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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... nullius, which was thought by many to mean blank space, or uninhabited, but in fact, it means unworked or unused agriculturally. When Europeans settled Australia, they saw the Indigenous residents to be savages, who wandered about aimlessly, through an arid wasteland, in a state of nature, (Morgan, ... -like, or not fully human (Van Kreiken et. al, 2000:536). Opinions have changed since those times, where Europeans treated the Aborigines violently, and an estimated 20000 Aboriginals were murdered and diseases introduced by the settlers killed numerous others. During the 1800s, Aboriginal...

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... unimpeded. However, changes in the law combined with progressive attitudes towards equality, because of the demands from women, have led to a greater sense of freedom and independence for women in Australia. For the first time, in 1999, woman outnumbered men in undergraduate medical degrees and more women than men complete secondary school (ed. Healey 2001, p.13). Although the Sex Discrimination Act ... the Act come from within the workforce (p. 4). Although women make up around 42 percent of the workforce, they hold only three percent of the to positions in management. Moreover, of Aus...

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... or public schools, which provide free nonreligious education. There are also private schools, which are usually denominational and charge tuition fees. The majority of private schools are Catholic. In 1995 Australia had nearly 10,000 primary and secondary schools, with an annual enrollment of 1.9 million primary students and 2.4 million secondary students. Preschool education is not required by national policy and varies ... CULTURE The Australian culture of today is very different from the one that started with the Aborigines some 200 years ago. In a relatively short amount of time the ...

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... to bridge an awful lot of gaps between an Indigenous culture and those-who-do-not-understand. Which is pretty much the majority of Australia. According to Dodson "The right to self determination entitles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to freely determine their political status and freely pursue ... and music industries which appeal to them - allowing them to be interested on their own accord. So will Indigenous integration into the Arts in Australia give us a more positive approach to diverse cultures and tolerance towards native Australians, or will it backfire horrendou...

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