New Research

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).

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.

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.

Changing scale, mixing interests: Generational change in Northern Territory local government

Changing scale, mixing interests: Generational change in Northern Territory local government

15 December 2011From both quantitative and observational perspectives, this paper argues that the greater challenge for the new NT local governments may be their vast geographic scale, rather than their mixing of diverse interests.

Indigenous language education in remote communities

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.

Implementation of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing in the NT

12 December 2011This audit assesses the effectiveness of the implementation of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing in the Northern Territory from the perspective of the Australian Government.

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Education

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.

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 policy

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.

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.

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

Government ignores evidence of policy failure on Aboriginal issues

06 September 2011Despite a raft of studies showing income management isn’t significantly improving people’s life chances, the Commonwealth is determined to press on with expanding the policy writes Eva Cox

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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

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.

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.

Housing

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.

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".

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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