2. What’s the problem facing Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians?
We are not individually responsible for the past but we can help shape the future.
The Goal
Understand and empathise with the reason why many Indigenous people experience injustice and disadvantage.
The Understanding
Lack of awareness and acts of injustice lead to pain and disadvantage.
The Question Why are many Indigenous Australians experiencing disadvantage and injustice?
What’s the problem facing Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians?

3. We are not individually responsible for the past but we can help shape the future.
The Goal
Understand and empathise with the reason why many Indigenous people experience injustice and disadvantage.
The Understanding
Lack of awareness and acts of injustice lead to pain and disadvantage.
The Question Why are many Indigenous Australians experiencing disadvantage and injustice?

4. The Goal
Understand and empathise with the reason why many Indigenous people experience injustice and disadvantage.

5. Lack of awareness and acts of injustice lead to pain and disadvantage.
The Understanding
Lack of awareness and acts of injustice lead to pain and disadvantage.

6. The Question
Why are many Indigenous Australians experiencing disadvantage and injustice?

7. There’s a wound in the spirit of our nation
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The lack of understanding, respect and value between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians which started at colonisations, caused a wound in our nation that remains today.

8. K1.1
SoS: Intro video mins

9. “A land belonging to no-one.”
Terra Nullius
A Latin legal term from Roman times meaning
“A land belonging to no-one.”
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10. K1.1
Uncle Graham: Terra Nullius - 42sec

11. K1.1
Uncle Graham: Colonisation and Intergenerational Trauma mins

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14. There is a disparity that is not right
K1.2 Many Indigenous people today face injustice and disadvantage.
When we compare Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians on a range of statistical indicators there is disparity, which is not right.

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SoS: Statistics mins

16. The past continues to affects us
K1.3 The past still affects the present.
Events policies and behaviours of our shared history all continue to contribute to the current injustice and disadvantage suffered by many Indigenous people. For example:

17. Treaty
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18. Constitutional Recognition
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20. Cultural awareness helps us understand the wound better
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21. • Cultural practices • Land ownership • Land practices
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To understand the reason for the wound, we need to understanding the meaning of Indigenous:

22. Stereotypes and identity issues need to be addressed
K1.5 Indigenous Australians are not defined by the stereotypes many people hold.

23. Good intentions sometimes lead to poor responses
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Many attempts to address injustice and disadvantage are not working.
There is good will in many Australians, but a considerable lack of knowledge about how to respond.