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How does colonisation affect the health of Indigenous Australians?

Colonisation is well known as the underlying factor influencing the social injustices that result in inequitable health for Indigenous people. A literature review was conducted identifying how the colonial impact on social justice is described in the relationships with the health of Indigenous Australians. A com-

What are the effects of colonisation?

levels of society, from individual to government. Colonisation deconstructs existing cultures, systems and structures resulting in ongoing unequal power distributions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. This has devalued Indigenous ways of knowing and being in present day society.

Is colonialism good or bad for indigenous peoples?

simulacrum of restoration to pre-colonial idyllic times where it is purported that indigenous peoples enjoyed much higher standards of living. The contrasting linear model (i.e. the line in Fig. 5 labelled as settler colonial progress) asserts that colonialism can be beneficial via indigenous assimilation into both settler

What does colonisation mean for indigenous peoples?

to colonisation can be seen as the silencing of the Indigenous persons' right to have 'the highest attainable standard of health conducive to living a life with dignity' (United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 2000).