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Aboriginal people (Australia)

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Aboriginal Australians
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Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010-11: an analysis by remoteness and disease


This report provides a detailed analysis of health expenditure for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in 2010-11. Summary This report complements Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2010-11 (AIHW 2013a) by providing a more detailed analysis of health expenditure estimates for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in 2010-11. Estimates are disaggregated at the...
Discussion paper

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples perspectives on homelessness, 2013: discussion paper


In recognition of the differences in understanding concepts of home and homelessness, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is undertaking further engagement to inform estimation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homelessness. This discussion paper outlines some of the key themes identified and provides a basis for further stakeholder consultation.
Journal article

A review of programs that targeted environmental determinants of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

This review finds that there are relatively few papers describing interventions that target environmental determinants of Indigenous health. Abstract: Objective: Effective interventions to improve population and individual health require environmental change as well as strategies that target individual behaviours and clinical factors. This is the basis of implementing an ecological approach to health programs and...
Report

Growing our children up strong and deadly: healing for children and young people


The trauma experienced by Indigenous people as a result of colonisation and subsequent policies, such as the forced removal of children, has had devastating consequences. The disruption of our culture and the negative impacts on the cultural identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples has had lasting negative effects, passed from generation to generation...
Discussion paper

We have the song, so we have the land: song and ceremony as proof of ownership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land claims


This paper explores the importance of evidentiary references to song and ceremony in land claims and analyses judges' reports to show how references to song and ceremony have figured in them.