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Aboriginal people travelling well: issues of safety, transport and health
The starting point for the work reported in this document is the proposition that safe and sufficient transport should be accessible to everyone.
About 25,000 people who live in South Australia identify as being Aboriginal. The circumstances and demographic characteristics of this small part of the total population provide reasons to expect that their transport needs, and the availability of transport options to them, differ from the general population. For example, much larger proportions of Aboriginal people than others live in rural and remote areas, and are young. While the general principles of safe and sufficient transport apply to the whole population, these and other distinct characteristics of the Aboriginal population of South Australia provide the basis for the focus of this project on Aboriginal people. This report was written by Yvonne LM Helps, Jerry Moller, Inge Kowanko, James E Harrison, Kim O’Donnell and Charlotte de Crespigny of the Research Centre for Injury Studies, Flinders University for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government.
