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- Title: Tomorrow Comes when Tomorrow Comes': Managing Aboriginal Health Within an Ontology of Life-As-Contingent (Report)
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 263 KB
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INTRODUCING THE ISSUES We have worked in neighbouring Aboriginal communities within central and central-western New South Wales which are historically and culturally similar: Gaynor Macdonald with Wiradjuri communities since 1981 and Daniela Heil since 1998 with members of neighbouring Ngiyampaa groups resettled into the north-west of Wiradjuri country in the 1940s. Both Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa people refer to themselves as Kooris, Aboriginal people or blackfellas to distinguish themselves from non-Aboriginal people (Gubbas, or whitefellas). This part of New South Wales was colonised from the 1830s. By the 1880s few Aboriginal people were able to sustain independent economic activity in the face of changes wrought by the introduction of sheep, cattle and agriculture. Once a valued rural labour force in the pastoral and agricultural industries, Aboriginal employment opportunities have declined with the increased use of mechanisation. This has been exacerbated in recent decades by a sharp slump in the rural economy. The majority of Aboriginal people in the region are dependent on government subsidies and social security payments. Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa people continue to live on small residential reserves established by government in the late eighteenth and early twentieth century, some of which allow for small-scale domestic agriculture. Increasingly, in particular over the last three to four decades, Kooris from these reserves have moved into adjacent rural towns. Local Aboriginal populations clustered around such towns average between 200 and 800 in this region. They may represent between two percent and 45 percent of the total town population, depending upon the economic viability of the town itself. In tough times, they are more likely to stay while non-Aboriginal people move out. As jobs have been hard to find, motivation for education has declined. Along with the experience of poverty and boredom come increasing health problems. While mortality rates are not as high as in remote Aboriginal communities, they are still much higher than among non-Aboriginal Australians, contributing to the average 20 years difference in life span.
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