Indigenous

18 March 2010People living in Australia’s regional areas access cardiovascular disease (CVD) medicines at higher rates than people in major cities or remote areas

Health impact assessment of the Northern Territory Emergency Response

Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association

18 March 2010This report raises serious concerns about the continued future wellbeing of Indigenous children and families under the Northern Territory Intervention. The report assesses the potential health impacts of the Intervention on all aspects of Indigenous health and wellbeing, not just physical health.

Knowledge foundations for the development of sustainable wildlife enterprises in remote Indigenous communities of Australia

Adrian M. Fordham, and others
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

15 March 2010This paper addresses issues of complementarity and conflict across Indigenous ecological knowledge and western science.

Linking census records to death registrations, Mar 2010

Australian Bureau of Statistics

15 March 2010This paper builds on other papers already released about the Indigenous Mortality Quality Study, by elaborating on the probabilistic data linking methodology used to link the Census and death records.

Child mortality target: analysis and recommendations

National Indigenous Health Equality Council, Department of Health and Ageing

15 March 2010Indigenous children aged 0-4 years die at 3 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. This analysis provides direction to achieve the Government’s commitment to halve the gap in mortality rates for Indigenous children by 2018.

Culture

Framework for measuring wellbeing: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 2010

Australian Bureau of Statistics

05 March 2010This publication describes a framework to map statistical information about Indigenous people, in the context of the interrelationships with their social and physical environments.

Indigenous policy

The future of outstations/homelands

15 March 2010
This report records the broad commentary from a workshop about Aboriginal homelands or outstations held at the ANU in October 2009.

Commentary

Windschuttle, again

17 March 2010Keith Windschuttle brings the temperament of a barrister to his latest subject, the stolen generations, writes Dean Ashenden in Inside Story

Silence

27 February 2010In this essay, first published in The Age, Maria Turmarkin explores what being silent or saying something actually means.

Welfare quarantining: reversing the burden of truth

06 February 2010The federal government's new quarantining rules won't solve the problem they're designed to address, argues Kemran Mestan

Audio

Three areas of human rights

05 March 2010Disability and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, looks at three areas of human rights in which the involvement of the Australian Human Rights Commission has played a part in changing the human rights landscape

New approaches to structuring government to close the implementation gap

19 February 2010This lecture argues that without reform of the structures of government, finance, policy and administration, remote Australia will remain a place of recurring crises.

Indigenous health

Video

Bess Nungarrayi Price on the NT Intervention

15 February 2010Bess Nungarrayi Price, a Walpiri woman from Yuendemu in the N.T. discusses the issues facing her community and explains why she thinks policies such as enforced income management are needed and welcome.

John Pilger attacks the Australian Government

26 November 2009As conflicts rage around the globe, Pilger argues that in Australia we have largely remained silent on injustices in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Aboriginal communities and refugees.

Housing

Closing the gap: Prime Minister's report 2010

Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

12 February 2010This is the second report of the federal government's Closing the Gap program to deal with Indigenous disadvantage.

Websites

Indigenous Vocational Education and Training

15 March 2010 The purpose of this resource is to provide a simple summary of NCVER's statistics and research on Indigenous Australians and vocational education and training (VET).

Bringing Them Home

19 February 2010This website features oral history interviews with people who were involved in or affected by the removal of Indigenous children from their families.

SettlerColonialStudies.org

06 February 2010This Melbourne-based blog is concerned with promoting a global appraisal of Indigenous issues, and an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of settler colonialism and its consequences.

Jobs

Events

Seminar

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change - Australian book launch, talk, Q&A

24 Mar 2010

Sydney

Conference

Indigenous Land Management with Economic Development

24 Mar 2010 - 9:00am - 25 Mar 2010 - 5:30am

Darwin

Conference

ACOSS National Conference 2010: A vote for equity

25 Mar 2010 - 9:00am - 26 Mar 2010 - 5:00pm

Canberra

Calls

Call for applications

Bold Ideas, Better Lives Challenge

23 Apr 2010

Courses

Criminal Justice Administration – Master of Social Science incorporating Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate

RMIT

Victoria

Graduate Diploma of Arts (Media and Communications)

Swinburne University of Technology

Victoria

Books

Racial Folly: A twentieth-century Aboriginal family

Gordon Briscoe
ANU E Press

A memoir and history of an Aboriginal family living under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century.

Compelling cultures: representing cultural diversity and cohesion in multicultural Australia

Kylie Message, Anna Edmundson and Ursula Frederic
ANU E Press

Humanities Research Vol XV. No. 2

Noticeboard

WANTED: Communications Projects (Melbourne)

16 February 2010

RMIT University in Melbourne runs a degree program where groups of
communication research‐trained students work on a communication research
project for a not‐for‐profit client.

National Prison Book Program - sending books to Australian prisoners

14 January 2010

The National Prison Book Program provides prisoners with free reading materials. Our aim is to provide books to prisoners and enhance prison library and educational services.

National Human Rights Online Consultation

27 May 2009

The National Human Rights Online Consultation on Open Forum will run from 19 May until 26 June 2009, providing an extended opportunity for the Australian community to share their views about which rights and responsibilities matter to us as a society,

Policy Guides

Indigenous Art and the Law

The project provides a literature review and critically examines existing laws and investigates options for urgently-required developments in the area of arts law as it pertains to Indigenous people and culture.

Updated date: 18-11-09

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