IMED1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cardiovascular Disease, Terra Nullius, Child Mortality
17 Sep 2018
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Disadvantage: the high disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous australians across all indicators of quality of life: social, economic, health, cultural, social justice. Negative effects of colonisation are still having an impact. Intergenerational trauma resulting from ongoing and cumulative effects colonisation: loss of land, language and culture, erosion of cultural and spiritual identity, forced removal of children, racism, discrimination. Universal declaration on the rights of indigenous people: All peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilisations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind. All doctrines, policies, and practices based on advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of natural origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, and legally invalid. Peoples suffered- historic injustices as a result of: Inter alia: colonisation, dispossession of lands, territories, resources hence preventing them from exercising their right to development in accordance to own rights and needs.
