Section 2

Statistics

Go to the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity website at http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/statistics/index.html#8 and answer the following questions.

Question 2

1. In what way are statistics useful in the study of Indigenous Australians?
2. What are the limitations of statistical information available about Indigenous Australians?
3. Make a minimum one paragraph summary of the information presented under the following headings:
• Population figures
• Deaths in Custody
• Juvenile Justice
• Removal Care and Protection Orders
• Health
• Housing
• Education
• Income
• Employment

Resource

You may find the following articles interesting:
Reconciliation Social Equity and Indigenous health 2000 S. J. Eades
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_10_150500/eades/eades.html
Moving the debate forward in Australia: Multiculturalism post Mabo 1995 Dr. H. Cattallini
http://www.immi.gov.au/multicultural/_inc/publications/confer/06/speech27a.htm
The Long Road to Reconciliation: A journey into a world apart by M. Gordon The Age June 8 2000
http://www.coh.arizona.edu/aas/AFAS_Website/world_apart.htm
To find this article use the Google search engine and type in "The long road to reconciliation" Gordon. Then find the article and select cached.

Think about the question, ‘Are you going to tell the truth’?

4. Read the article and explain in at least one paragraph how the truth about the socioeconomic conditions of Indigenous Australians might be told? Should the truth be told or should the truth remain hidden?

Go to the word document to type your answers.

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