Stolen Generation Case Study

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Recommended: Reflection on Indigenous education

Pragyan Sharma 12/16-maxim street Westryde NSW 2122 The Hon. Leslie Gladys WILLIAMS, MP Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and Assistant Minister for Education, Minister for Early Childhood Education 52 Martin Place SYDNEY NSW 2000 Australia Subject: Regarding avoiding another stolen generation Dear Minister, I would like to address to you that Indigenous children current situation of aboriginal children who are taken to child protection system from there home because of health system particularly alarming widespread level of our indigenous children being in out of home care. I am student from Bachelor of nursing studying at University of Technology, Sydney. As a student Nurse it is well responsive of the actions of the …show more content…

I hope you will understand my concerns and also have a look and take notes of my views and suggestions and the effects that are being caused to the indigenous children for being mistreated and abused which directly result in them being taken away from their family, home, social environment and culture.(Braveman & Gottlied 2014). Bring the Aboriginal children back to study at school and reassuring the aboriginal adults to be Australian work force is the main focus of Aboriginal Health programs, according to the Senator Scullins. Closing the gap program had built a astonishing progress but only with regards to the acceptance of institutionalized way of living and indigenous community cooperation (Australian Medical Association …show more content…

Furthermore, I would recommend the additional support and advocacy of self-sufficiency and education to indigenous adults, not only for those who have an existing families, but to propose a continuous education and literacy drive for the mass of the their community, in this way aboriginal adults would have a more prominent and diversified options of occupational opportunity for the betterment of the whole indigenous community, thus increasing the populace of aboriginal decent from being socially isolated (McDonald

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