The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Australia shares a colonial history with many other countries, including the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. This colonial history has deeply impacted First Nations peoples and is increasingly seen as underlying current Indigenous disadvantage (Waitoki & Levy, 2016). The emergence of a g...
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ftunivnewengland:oai:rune.une.edu.au:1959.11/61177 2024-09-15T18:06:39+00:00 The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Dudgeon, Pat Carey, Timothy A Hammond, Sabine Hirvonen, Tanja Kyrios, Michael Roufeil, Louise Smith, Peter School of Psychology orcid:0000-0002-8883-731X 2020-10-02 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/61177 en eng Cambridge University Press https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/61177 une:1959.11/61177 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-psychology-and-human-rights/australian-psychological-societys-apology-to-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people/B9D0D54CD15F059B9D5B81F50D0E7908 Clinical and health psychology Book Chapter 2020 ftunivnewengland 2024-07-09T23:35:38Z Australia shares a colonial history with many other countries, including the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. This colonial history has deeply impacted First Nations peoples and is increasingly seen as underlying current Indigenous disadvantage (Waitoki & Levy, 2016). The emergence of a global Indigenous psychology is concerned with decolonization and based upon the right to self-determination enshrined by the 2007 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (United Nations, 2008). The Declaration recognizes that Indigenous people have an inalienable right to self-governance, control over their lands, and practice of their cultures (see Hunter, Milroy, Brown, & Calma, 2012). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to experience significant inequalities and disadvantage in their health, life expectancy, education, and employment (Calma, Dudgeon, & Bray, 2017), and are overrepresented in rates of detention and imprisonment (O’Brien, 2018). The tremendous disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians represents a major human rights issue. Book Part First Nations Research UNE - University of New England at Armidale, NSW Australia |
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Australia shares a colonial history with many other countries, including the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. This colonial history has deeply impacted First Nations peoples and is increasingly seen as underlying current Indigenous disadvantage (Waitoki & Levy, 2016). The emergence of a global Indigenous psychology is concerned with decolonization and based upon the right to self-determination enshrined by the 2007 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (United Nations, 2008). The Declaration recognizes that Indigenous people have an inalienable right to self-governance, control over their lands, and practice of their cultures (see Hunter, Milroy, Brown, & Calma, 2012). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to experience significant inequalities and disadvantage in their health, life expectancy, education, and employment (Calma, Dudgeon, & Bray, 2017), and are overrepresented in rates of detention and imprisonment (O’Brien, 2018). The tremendous disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians represents a major human rights issue. |
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The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People |
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The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People |
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The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People |
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The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People |
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The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People |
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australian psychological society’s apology to aboriginal and torres strait islander people |
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