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Test Bank for Nursing Health Assessment: The Foundation of Clinical Practice Third Edition by Patricia
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Legal entity: INSTITUTE OF HEALTH & MANAGEMENT PTY LTD.Category: Institute of Higher Education
CRICOS Provider: 03407G| Provider ID: PRV14040
ABN: 19 155 760 437 | ACN: 155 760 437
History and Impact of Colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
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, Bachelor of Social Work
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Introduction
Traditionally, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had an intertwined
experience with the impacts of colonization that disrupted cultural, social, and spiritual
community practices. The introduction of colonization brought policies and practices that had
results in profound trauma, land dispossession, forced removals, and systemic discrimination.
This essay critically reflects on these impacts and reviews how social work practices can be
enhanced by recognizing and respecting Indigenous voices, traditions, and self-determination.
This discussion, informed by the scholarship and perspectives of Indigenous peoples,
reinforces cultural competence in fostering equity and healing.
History of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
For at least 50,000 years before British colonization in 1788, the ATSI people lived
throughout the Australian continent as a part of one of the oldest continuing cultures in the
world (Milroy, 2014). With more than 260 different language groups and strong kinship ties,
the cultures were already very sophisticated, built upon shared responsibility and obligation.
Their view of the world was spiritually connected to Country. In this framework, the land was
a living entity to which they were related (Milroy, 2014). This engagement with the
environment shaped every aspect of their life, from governance to ceremonies, into one that
develops a relationship with the land holistically with its resources (Dudgeon et al., 2014).
Colonisation disrupted these systems deeply. The terra nullius declaration of the
British denied governance through the legal systems of ATSI and their connection with the
land. This was a legal fiction, enabling systematic dispossessing of land by dismantling
cultural practices and community cohesion (Bennett et al., 2023). Violent conflict,
displacement, and foreign diseases decimated their populations. Assimilation policies,
including the Stolen Generations, forcibly removed children from their families with the aim
of erasing cultural identities and imposing European norms (Vivian & Halloran, 2022). This
severed ties to kinship and Country, fracturing the social and emotional well-being of ATSI
peoples (Australian Human Rights Commission, 1997).
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Legal entity: Institute of Health & Management Pty Ltd.
Category: Institute of Higher Education | CRICOS Provider: 03407G | Provider ID: PRV14040 |
ABN: 19 155 760 437 | ACN: 155 760 437
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