Engineering Innovation and Ethics Indigenous Australian People

Question: Discuss about the Engineering Innovation and Ethics Indigenous Australian. Answer: Indigenous Australians are those people who were migrated from Africa somewhere around 60,000 years ago. They were the first people coming to Australia and had no such defined origin. The development of indigenous population of Australia is not equal. Those indigenous people who are living in the urban or the rural places there developments are not even. Moreover, the development of both groups of indigenous people has moved differently (Thomson, 2012). However, the several of government policies and regulations do suggest that the present time of indigenous people are finding elevated supports from the local government than in the past. This is one reality that indigenous people had no such favours from the Australian government. Until 1967, they had no such significant favouring form the local government. However, the scenarios have changed in the last ten years and this is because of the fact that the Australian government is taking some serious initiatives to uplift the living st andard of the indigenous people of Australia (Short, 2016). The main purpose of the assignment is to evaluate the initiatives take by the local government in the recent times. In the year 2008, the Australian government has decided to address all the inequalities, which the aborigines are facing in Australia. The commitment was decided to vanish the gap. Some of the highlighted gaps were such as to address the solutions for a comparative life expectancy; the rates of deaths of infants are higher than the non-aborigines, comparatively poorer health condition and lower levels of employment and education. The move was to address the issue and find the required solutions for the highlighted problems. However, the initiatives could only be partially successful as it fell down in providing the utmost solutions to the indigenous people. The rate of deaths of infant were reduced than compared to that in the year 1998; however, it did not reduce the extent as it was anticipated. On a same note, the target to close the differences in between the aborigines and non-aborigines are not on track. The rate of unemployment is also not on the track. However, some of the hi ghly infected diseases were efficiently being reduced to a considerable amount. Those diseases were HBV, Gonorrhoea and the rates of smoking in women during pregnancy were also reduced (Hilson, 2016). It is an undeniable fact that the issues are being addressed at some big occasions but nothing so the Australian government has so far achieved commanding. The inequality in between aborigines and non-aborigines are still out of control. The rate of remedial actions and the respective consequences are still defying any potential move by the government. The inequality is not only in the physical condition but it has also dominated the mentalities of common people who are racist to this nature. It is the feeling of racism, which has so far successfully defied any significant consequence of numerous government projects for aborigines (Altman Martin, 2013). The engineering ethics is a set of rules that governs the ethical commitment of engineers towards a society or group. The social wellbeing is one of the responsibilities of engineering ethics, which tries to manifest the social awareness towards a social group. The poor and lamentable conditions of indigenous people in the past and the current development have posed several challenges to the ethical engineering. The challenge is to deliver the moral principles of applied engineering ethics (Behrendt, 2012). The role of engineering may include making through research on some localities, defining the problems, analyzing criteria, and making decisions. However, making decisions would certainly be tested as so far there have been so many reforming works for the indigenous people but nothing significant has happened yet. The ethical duties of engineers are to conduct a thorough analysis and find some necessary solutions to the problems identified. It might also be the case that the identi fied problem is a new find; however, it might be less ensuring to the fact that the works is on progress. The essential problems have so far remained with the clinical remedies in right proportion. This is for such reasons that the aborigines are so far unidentified with an utmost solution (Yu, 2012). The existing problem to the aborigines and the relevant helplessness works of the local government can collectively posed some serious challenges to the engineers. The ethical engineering and the never dying debate on the solutions for the indigenous people are two contradicting facts, which have less connectivity to each others morality. If I have to visit to some aborigines and to conduct a research on the existing problem, I might feel less confident because the same things have been repeated in the past for quite a time. The biggest challenge would be to ensure a maximum faith of aborigines onto the works, which I have planned for them. The several of remedial actions in past have fetched so far no such significant gaps narrowing in between aborigines and non-aborigines (De Costa, 2012). Conducting the research is possible but concluding the results and implementing the same is difficult. The ethical engineering is about finding the problems and providing the possible solutions; however, I would be in all sorts of doubt about how to propose the changes and bring the required remedial actions. This is because of the fact that the remedial actions are easy to be identified but are a comparatively difficult to implement the solutions. The identified solutions might attract respective granting of permission from the local government of Australia as they itself trying their level best to ensure equal rights to all group of societies in Australia. The incapability of the Australian government in bringing changes to the aborigines has put in a complex situation, as it would be difficult for me to communicate effectively with the aborigines. The communication with the aborigines is essential, as this would help coming to some conclusion. However, it is even complicated and tough for me to have a healthy communication with the aborigines because they had so far not received the utmost equal rights (Garling et al., 2013). The local government initiatives to uplift the living standards of aborigines in Australia and giving them equal rights to prevent numerous consequences such as high rates of infant deaths is so far partially achieved. The series of remedial actions from the local government has changed the scenarios to some extent, as the situation was even worse until 1967s. Nevertheless, the highly incremented problems of inequalities have not met with such potential solutions, which could completely outplay the differences n between different communities. For an engineer, it is very difficult and complicated case to have a healthy communication with the aborigines. This is because of the fact that the ethical engineering instructs towards an ultimate solution; however, the present scenarios in Australia would not let the implementation of the solution happen. Moreover, the rising inequalities among different communities in Australia are still in search of some handful remedial action, which could efficiently eliminate the inequalities from the society. The progress is happening but not to the desired level. This has created enormous challenges not only to the Australian government hut also to the ethical rules, which is causing problems to the engineers also. References Altman, J., Martin, D. (2013).Power, Culture, Economy (CAEPR 30): Indigenous Australians and Mining(p. 243). ANU Press. Behrendt, L. (2012).Indigenous Australia for dummies. John Wiley Sons. De Costa, R. (2012).A higher authority: indigenous transnationalism and Australia. UNSW Press. Garling, S., Hunt, J., Smith, D., Sanders, W. (2013).Contested governance: culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia(p. 351). ANU Press. Hilson, G. (2016).Natural resource extraction and indigenous livelihoods: Development challenges in an era of globalization. Routledge. 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