What is Lost When Many do Nothing?
Although Australia is a First World country, Indigenous Australians are highly disadvantaged and many live in Third World conditions. Both the health and income of most Aboriginals is generally lower than the average Australian's and the life span of an Indigenous person is almost ten years less than the rest of the population. (Reconciliaction, 2007, viewed 9 May 2014)
Today, Aboriginals still face much racial discrimination and are constantly judged for their poor living conditions. Indigenous Australians are often victims of sickness and disease.
The perpetrators for this issue are a variety of government policies dating back to when the English first set foot in this country, and the initial exposure to European diseases and food from the early white settlers. Over many generations, bad health habits have been created. (Flood. Josephine, 2006, viewed 9 May 2014)
Organisations such as Caritas and the Fred Hollows Foundation spend time and money trying to improve the health and conditions of the Indigenous Australians. They save or rescue these people from the harsh conditions they live in.
Many Australians have been and still are very ignorant of how this issue developed over the past 200 years. The majority of white Australians in the Silent Generation, the Baby Boom Generation and to some extent, Generation X would be the bystanders as they just didn't realise or understand the snowballing effect of these initial and continuing injustices and ignorantly went along with the idea that it is the norm for Indigenous Australians to live in poor conditions.
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