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First Nations and Inuit people are covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits Program (NIHB), which is a federal program available to people registered under the Indian Act (“Status Indians”) and to Inuk people recognized by an Inuit land claims organization.

Some believed that the Ancestors were animal-spirits. Others in parts of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory believed the Ancestors were huge snakes. In other places the spirit who created the world were believed to be the Wanadjina. Dreamtime is the foundation of Aboriginal religion and culture.

The National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party (NAHSWP ) attempted to establish a mechanism that would enable, as far as possible, full and complete consultations with Aboriginal communities and their organisations, professional organisations, and other interested bodies to try and ensure that any National ...

Contrary to what many people think (and to the stereotype of Australian advertising) the majority of Aboriginal people live in Australia's eastern states and not in the remote desert regions of the continent. Most Aboriginal people livein New South Wales and Queensland.

Major beliefs within the Aboriginal Australian religion include oral tradition, songlines, and the Dreamtime. Dreamtime is crucially important as it is the period when everything was created.

The complex set of spiritual values developed by Aboriginal people and that are part of the Dreamtime include 'self-control, self-reliance, courage, kinship and friendship, empathy, a holistic sense of oneness and interdependence, reverence for land and Country and a responsibility for others.

The people still have their own traditional belief systems. Stories of the Tagai, their spiritual belief system, represent Torres Strait Islanders as sea people, with a connection to the stars, as well as a system of order in which everything has its place in the world. They follow the instructions of the Tagai.