The Let’s Start project was a trial to implement the Exploring Together Preschool Program (ETPP) in the Northern Territory (NT) for managing behaviour problems in Indigenous and other children.

The north is Australia’s last frontier. Here, dreams of development, conservation and Indigenous rights collide. Out of this collision may emerge a social, cultural and environmental order which is interesting, novel, sustainable and different to what has happened on colonial frontiers elsewhere. It is unlikely that everyone will like what happens: indeed for some their...

The current policy settings in northern (and central) Australia means that this area could become a serious social and economic (and ecological) liability to the rest of the nation within the next couple of decades argues Rolf Gerritsen. This is for two reasons: the nature of the region’s demography and the likely nature of its...

This report evaluates an early intervention for primary school students and their parents delivered in three Tiwi primary schools from 2000-2004.