INDIGENOUS POLICY IN AUSTRALIA SINCE THE 1970S

Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s



Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s

Since 1950, Australians began to reconsider its attitude to racial matters. It was a movement of indigenous peoples, supported by many liberal white Australians, and the campaign against the policy of the White Australia has also begun. 1967 a referendum was held, and the overwhelming majority approved to amend the Constitution, the removal of discriminatory provisions and to provide the National Parliament power to legislate specifically for Indigenous Australians.

During most of the twentieth century, the Australian Government took a lot of Aboriginal children from their families. This practice has made tremendous damage to Aboriginal cultural and emotional, which led to the term stolen generation to describe these families. After the publication of the 1997 federal government report, bringing them home all the state governments have followed the recommendations of the report to issue a formal apology for its past practice for Aboriginal people, as well as many local authorities. Within the Council of Australian Governments criteria in December 2007 and March last year, all governments in this country have committed themselves to: the gap in life expectancy between indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation, to halve the gap in mortality rates among indigenous children aged up to five within a decade, to ensure that all indigenous four-year-olds in remote communities have access to early childhood programs in the five years to halve the gap in reading, writing and numeracy achievement for the children of the Decade, to halve the gap in 12 years the achievement of ten years and to halve the gap in employment in the Decade.

Restore idea decades before the world its own is always a difficult task, and in Australia, where the achievements of previous generations ...