New Research

Juvenile detention population in Australia 2011

09 February 2012This report presents information on the number of young people in detention in 2011 and describes recent trends in the detention population.

Improving Indigenous community governance

02 February 2012Strengthening the organisational capacity of both Indigenous and government organisations is critical to raising the health, wellbeing and prosperity of Indigenous Australian communities.

Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition

01 February 2012Over half (51%) of Indigenous people living in non-remote parts of Australia aged 15 and over do very little or no exercise, compared with 33% of non-Indigenous Australians (AIHW 2011a).

Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution

30 January 2012Current multiparty support has created a historic opportunity to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of Australia, to affirm their full and equal citizenship, and to remove the last vestiges of racial discrimination from the Constitution.

Caring for country: Australian natural and cultural resource management

30 January 2012This issue presents work and ideas from a diverse range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners, researchers and collaborators who work in central and northern Australia in a range of environments, from local to regional scales.

What are the options? Pricing and taxation policy reforms to redress excessive alcohol consumption and related harms in Australia

24 January 2012Increasing community and political concern about excessive alcohol consumption and related harms in Australia has prompted calls for the introduction of tighter regulatory controls.

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Education

Indigenous child placement principle: audit report 2010/11

18 January 2012This paper represents the second audit conducted by the Commission in fulfilling its legislative responsibility to monitor the Department of Communities’ compliance with section 83 of the Child Protection Act 1999.

Indigenous policy

Commentary

Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: the "what" and "how"

05 February 2012In Inside Story, Paul Kildea looks at what’s being proposed for Australian constitutional reform, and how we might get there

What's data got to do with it? Reassessing the NT intervention

25 January 2012Income management should be one of the easier programs to measure writes Eva Cox for The Conversation.

Learning in both worlds

27 October 2011Despite the international evidence, the Northern Territory has discouraged bilingual programs in its schools, writes Lisa Waller in Inside Story. But there are early signs of another shift in attitude, both in Darwin and Canberra

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Topic Guides

NBN: Guide for Consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

09 June 2011The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), have developed NBN: A Guide for Consumers, designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

A guide to understanding and working with General Practice in NSW

  • Carla Saunders, Laura Tierney
  • General Practice NSW

20 May 2011Providing an outline of general practice, this resource considers its uniformity and diversity; its funding arrangements, service delivery, workforce, training, capacity and supporting structures.

Working with Aboriginal people and communities: A practical resource

23 April 2009This practice resource is a guide for all Community Services and relevant non-government organisation (NGO) staff, particularly field staff. 

Audio

Communication, access and equality

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08 December 2011This program looks at number of projects aiming to improve access to communication - be it the use of telephones in East Timor or Internet access in the remote interior of Australia.

Hack in Alice Springs: Bridging the internet divide

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21 September 2011Remember a time before the internet? Some of you might... But in Papunya, a remote Aboriginal community in the central Australian desert, people are just getting connected.

Indigenous health

Video

Not sorry enough

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22 November 2011What are the short-term and long-term goals Indigenous Australians are setting for their communities, and who will be leading the way? Karla Grant leads a panel of Kim Hill, Linda Burney, Tania Major and Robbie Thorpe through these contentious questions.

Paul Keating master storyteller

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15 November 2011On this special Sunday evening presentation, Paul Keating joined Robert Manne for a conversational marathon, coinciding with the publication of his post-prime ministerial speeches.

Housing

The role of assertive outreach in ending 'rough sleeping'

The role of assertive outreach in ending 'rough sleeping'

19 January 2012Drawing on experience of policy-makers, service providers and service users in Brisbane, Sydney and Darwin, this paper suggests that deliberate and strategic attempts to end a person's homelessness can be successful.

Websites

Community Water Planner

04 November 2011Remote and Indigenous communities can look forward to cleaner, safer drinking water, thanks to an enhanced Community Water Planner tool, developed to help assess and manage the risks in remote Australian community water supplies.

Solid Arts

30 September 2011Solid Arts is an online resource with free legal tools, practical advice and links to other sites.

Australian Social Policy Association (ASPA)

18 July 2011Established to promote debate and to increase understanding of social policy in Australia, the ASPA enables productive collaborations between those working and researching in social policy locally, across the Asia-Pacific region and internationally.

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Books

Indifferent Inclusion Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation

Indifferent Inclusion Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation

  • Russell McGregor
  • Aboriginal Studies Press
Russell McGregor is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Aboriginal history. The very title of the book breaks new ground because of the questions implicit in its approach…his perspective is genuinely fresh and insightful. Historian Mark McKenna
Belonging Together Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Policy

Belonging Together Dealing with the politics of disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Policy

  • Patrick Sullivan
  • Aboriginal Studies Press
Belonging Together describes current Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period since the end of ATSIC in 2004. It provides a unique overview of the trajectory of current policy, with Sullivan advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy, moving beyond the debate over self-determination and assimilation.

Noticeboard

Access and equity inquiry
20 December 2011

On 18 November 2011, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator the Hon Kate Lundy, announced the establishment of an independent panel of eminent community leaders to conduct an inquiry into Australian Government services to ensure they are responsive to the needs of Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Survey: Last chance to have your say on information technology and mental illness
15 December 2011

We live in a 'wired society'. But how much are people affected by mental illness included in this? Does social media increase isolation or help people overcome it?

Historical Justice and Memory newsblog
09 December 2011

The Historical Justice and Memory website now includes a daily newsblog.

Topic Guides

NBN: Guide for Consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

09 June 2011The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), have developed NBN: A Guide for Consumers, designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

Topics

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