The paper explores two specific case studies describing the origins of place names, namely the work of Ednie Hassell of Jerramungup and Alfred John Bussell of Wallcliffe near Margaret River. With the incessant development of suburbs and urbanisation of Western Australia’s landscape and within the context of reconciliation and native title debates, the ongoing use...

Aimed at informing policy analyses, planning and program implementation, this is the first of six reports containing detailed analyses against HPF indicators. This is the first of six reports that contains detailed analyses against indicators in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework (the HPF). The HPF is the basis for monitoring the...

This story of Indigenous Australian-Indonesian intermarriage is one that sheds light on the changes to citizenship entitlement in Australia and the struggles of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Asian peoples to lead their lives free from government intervention. Indonesian-Australian contacts remain relatively unknown in Australian history. Early Macassan relations with the peoples of Northern Australia...

This report explains the activities of the Australian Human Rights Commission over the past year. It covers issues such as discrimination, children in detention and indigenous disadvantage. The Annual Report of the Australian Human Rights Commission for the period ending 30 June 2011 has been prepared pursuant to section 45 of the Australian Human Rights...

This report details our audit of the implementation of the NSW Interagency Plan to Tackle Child Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities 2006 - 2011 (Interagency Plan). The report seeks to bring together what we have said over a number of years publicly - as well as to agencies directly - about the systemic reforms that...