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).

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.

2010-11 report on the operation of the Aged Care Act 1997

23 January 2012Recent reviews of the Aged Care Act of 1997 have led to increases in government funding in particular, aged care facilites and the services they provide to indigenous communities.

Social justice report 2011

10 January 2012This report covers the developments in the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for the 2010/2011 period.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2010 report

10 January 2012These publications report on indicators relevant to health status and health outcomes, determinants of health and health systems performance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in NSW, Vic, Qld, WA, SA, and NT.

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Education

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.

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 language education in remote communities

15 December 2011Focussing on the role of Indigenous languages in emergent development activity in remote Australia, this report examines the out-of-school language and literacy needs of adolescents and young adults, with a focus on the digital economy.

Indigenous policy

Commentary

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.

When freedom is fatal: the preventable deaths of recently released prisoners

19 July 2011A study published in the Medical Journal of Australia concludes that more prison inmates in Australia die in the year after they’ve been released than the annual number of deaths in custody writes Alex Wodak.

Playing number games with Indigenous Australians' health

24 June 2011Achieving equity is less about grand gestures than meeting the actual needs of Indigenous Australians writes David Paul
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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

Telemedicine provides healthcare to remote patients

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08 July 2011Medical consultations over the internet just got more affordable in Australia with the federal government announcing online visits to the doctor will be funded by Medicare.

Wellbeing quantified

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08 November 2010There's a good news story which hasn't made the headlines: compared to 20 years ago, the world is a better place.

Indigenous health

Video

Innovative Indigenous policy

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04 November 2011Professor Ian Anderson, Foundation Chair in Indigenous Health at the University of Melbourne, comments on some of the countries most pervasive issues of Indigenous inequality and disadvantage.

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

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.

The Lowitja Institute

04 March 2011The Lowitja Institute is Australia's National Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research.

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.

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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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