https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/61177
Title: | The Australian Psychological Society’s Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People |
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Contributor(s): | Dudgeon, Pat (author); Carey, Timothy A (author); Hammond, Sabine (author); Hirvonen, Tanja (author); Kyrios, Michael (author); Roufeil, Louise (author); Smith, Peter (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2020-10-02 |
Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/61177 |
Related DOI: | 10.1017/9781108348607 |
Abstract: | 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. |
Publication Type: | Book Chapter |
Source of Publication: | The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights, p. 553-567 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Place of Publication: | United Kingdom |
ISBN: | 9781108425636 9781108442817 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 5203 Clinical and health psychology |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book |
Publisher/associated links: | 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 |
Editor: | Editor(s): Neal S. Rubin and Roseanne L. Flores |
Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Psychology |
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