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Aboriginal people (Australia)

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Aboriginal Australians
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Article

Mungo Man needs help – to come home


It's time for funds and a plan to preserve and commemorate this visitor from Ancient Australia, writes the geologist who discovered Mungo Man’s remains.
Working paper

The ins and outs of the labour market: employment and labour force transitions for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians


Abstract This paper uses data from the Australian Census Longitudinal Data set to conduct the first representative analysis of labour force transitions for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The main finding is that Indigenous females and males are more than 10 percentage points more likely than their non-Indigenous counterparts to move from employment in 2006 to...
Literature review

Literature review relating to the current context and discourse surrounding Indigenous early childhood education, school readiness and transition programs to primary school


Since the educational experiences of Aboriginal Australians are often framed from a ‘deficit’ perspective, whereby the failures of Indigenous people to engage with the mainstream educational system are seen as the ‘problem’, an alternative approach to Indigenous early childhood education discourse is preferable. This alternative approach highlights the strengths that many Aboriginal children possess when...
Book

In defence of country: life stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and women


Presents a selection of life stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ex-servicemen and women who served in the Australian Army, Navy and Air Force after World War Two. Overview Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been protecting country since time immemorial. One way they have continued these traditions in recent times is through...