What are the challenges facing reconciliation in the Australian context?
What are the challenges facing reconciliation in the Australian context?
The essay is created to address the challenges present related to the Australian context reconciliation. At present there are several issues that have a direct impact on the native individuals for instance education, health, reparations for the stolen generations and native title. The term reconciliation in the Australian context is applied to the relations of the race in the state between the native people and the rest of the community of Australia. There also exists considerable disagreement regarding the meaning of the word and to identify the relevance for the disadvantages group of the socio economically disadvantaged groups that reside in Australia (Auspoll 2008).
In order to gain an understanding of the contemporary life of the native individual of the country, it is necessary to present the cultural and historical background. The native Australia comprises of two major cultural groups domination, they have struggled in the similar way most often when the term Indigenous is utilized there is absence in the history related to the Torres Strait Islander. There is exists issues related to dealing with justice and rights in the context of Australia, it is present in the history of the relationships between the settler in Australia who claimed the land as their own and the natives of the country. The outcome of the viewpoint derived from the diversity in relation to the major issues related to the community are a part of what now consist of the Australian community and culture which is now like a colourful fabric (Auspoll 2008).
To develop an understanding and greater awareness of the aboriginal situations that exists and the individual of the Torres Strait Islander, it does not mean that the current individual who are not native should feel guilty or responsible about the actions that were conducted in the past in the country. It is considered necessary that the settlers in Australian should understand that they have to work together as a group regarding the past dispossession, they are the beneficiary of the economic injustice towards Torres Strait Islander peoples, Aboriginal and they are also in a more stable position to rectify the disadvantages that are caused because of the prevailing injustice (Eades S 2000).
The process of reconciliation consist of where Torres Strait Islander peoples and Aboriginal, Australian governments and non-Indigenous Australians build a new relation that is based on the understanding on mutual level, respect and recognition. In present decade there is a strong renaissance of culture and creative expression of the forms, reconnection and to restore the cultural life by working together. The aboriginal culture has deep root in the past of the country. A tradition of the Australian native culture has a continuity and history that unrivalled all over the world. It is the reconciled vision of Australia that has a place where the culture of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal are respected, affirmed and valued all areas across the ...