SELF DETERMINATION
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LEGAL STUDIES
YEAR 11
ESSAY ON: SELFDETERMINATION.
DUE 18/8/03
BY JAMES CHEN
Aboriginal people throughout the period of white settlement in Australia have been exposed to treatments that classify as racist, unjust, lack of recognition and respect for the indigenous Australians. In acknowledgement to the terms such as terra nullius, the concept of the white population being more superior then others races, as well as the idealism of the recognition of the indigenous Australians, to be less intellectual and are in risk of surviving.
Therefore, throughout centuries of mistreatment and the concept of adopting and assimilating the indigenous Australians and Torres Strait islanders in becoming a part of the white population disregarding of their own sovereignty and cultural system that was established from a time period of post 5000 years.
The ATSI (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders) should be granted by the commonwealth government in compliance with self-determination as a mechanism that will be used as a foundation to recognize the group as a sovereign group of their own who should be allowed to determine their own future.
As ATSI rise from the ashes of colonialism and oppression, where they have shed the shackles of despair and dependency, they should be granted with policies that would compensate the victims of these flawing policies that have impacted on the lives of the hundreads and thousands of ATSI people, whether through what a few claimed to be called genocide to redirection of the ATSI people's traditional way of live, culture, religion and their families.
Thus they should be allocated with a policies that will perform these tasks:
Securing their right to live
Create a safe environment to live in
Revive their identities that were removed away from them.
Restoring their traditional language
Asserting to their original customaries such as preparations of foods and hunting.
Returning and redirecting ATSI people back to their original religions.
Utilize their accumulated ancient wisdoms
Rebuild their local economy structure and systems...