New Research

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.

Can cultural differences affect access of families to health care?

30 December 2011Differences in culture can become apparent when families seek out or require access to health care in Australia.

Influences on Indigenous labour market outcomes

19 December 2011This staff working paper examines factors that potentially influence Indigenous labour market outcomes (LMOs).

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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

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

Heritage, memory and identity - global issues?

20 October 2011Can heritage be globalised like information or commerce? Martine Hawkes reviews a collection of essays from around the world on heritage, memory and identity.

Analysis of Indigenous funding in the 2011-12 Commonwealth Budget

09 June 2011Progress in ‘Closing the Gap’ on Indigenous disadvantage is heart-breakingly slow writes Lesley Russell.

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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

Prison art ban raises human rights concerns

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25 March 2011Do people detained in our correctional services have the right to paint and have their work exhibited in the wider community? Not in Queensland they don't.

Cultural competence training

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11 November 2010Cultural competence training aims to educate Australians to better identify and challenge their cultural assumptions, values and beliefs.

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.

Why is overcoming Indigenous disadvantage so hard?

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01 April 2011In this presentation, prize-winning novelist, Professor of Law and 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year Larissa Behrendt addresses the lack of progress on Indigenous issues in Australia.

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

Solid Arts

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

Indigenous teaching at Australian universities

25 February 2011The resources on this website are designed for anyone involved in Indigenous teaching in Australian Universities - or beyond. Among other things, the site features a set of research-based exemplars for good practice.

Stories project

11 February 2011Launched in 2010 with stories from Western Sydney and the Western Desert, remote Western Australia, the Stories Project delivers "beautiful bursts of cinema, filmed on the streets and sand dunes of Australia".

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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.

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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.

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