HSC203 ASSESSMENT 1
Approx. 1000-1500 words
Task:
This is an opportunity for you to tell a persons story on a specific Indigenous health and wellbeing topic and it can either be from a personal or professional perspective.
You can choose the medium or way of telling this story and these can include: writing down someones story, recorded oral presentation, or poster/picture/collage.
This assignment is an opportunity for you to tell a story on a specific Indigenous health topic and it can either be from a personal or professional perspective.
You can choose the medium or way of telling this story and these can include: recorded oral presentation, poster/picture/collage or writing down someones story.
The main requirement of the assignment is to do a biography of an Indigenous person or an autobiography (if you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person yourself) as a representative or personalisation of a specific Indigenous health topic. This is about putting the face to the facts as it were and telling the stories that come with the statistics.
You can choose an Indigenous person involved either as a client or a worker in an Indigenous health setting, tell their story and tie it in with some background or an overview of the Indigenous health issue.
If you dont work in the Indigenous health area or personally know any Indigenous persons that you could relate to for this assignment; you could look into the lives of some well-known Indigenous Australians who have battled some kind of health issue. For example:
Dr M Yunupingu: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-29/australian-story-message-from-mandawuy/4729298
Jimmy Little: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-03/jimmy-little-farewelled-in-sydney/3987290
Dr Marika: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/06/16/2275966.htm
Dr Charles Perkins http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/perkins/
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/kunothmonks/
Dr Roiane West http://www.isrn.qut.edu.au/pdf/members/researchers/Roianne_West.pdf
Professor Alex Brown http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/about/consultants?pid=96
George Burarrwanga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burarrwanga