Aboriginal people (Australia)
Alternative labels
Aboriginal Australians
Essay
The Northern Territory Intervention and human rights: an anthropological perspective
In this essay, Dr Mary Edmunds draws together the history, circumstance, culture, principles and practice surrounding the Northern Territory Intervention. Key to her argument is that the Northern Territory Intervention has, for all of its drawbacks, provided an opportunity to review and re-approach how government enables or prevents the exercise of Aboriginal human rights.
Report
Injury of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to transport, 2003-04 to 2007-08
Land transport accidents accounted for 20% of fatal injury cases and 8% of all injury hospitalisations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Based on age-standardised rates, there were 2.7 times more fatalities and 20% more serious injury among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people compared to other Australians.
Book
Passionate histories: myth, memory and Indigenous Australia
The emotional engagements of both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people with Indigenous history are examined in this book. The contributors are a mix of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous scholars, who in different ways examine how the past lives on in the present, as myth, memory, and history. Each chapter throws fresh light on an aspect of history-making...
Report
Expenditure on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2006-07: an analysis by remoteness and disease
Health expenditure patterns, and the ratios between Indigenous and non-indigenous expenditure, vary by remoteness and by the type of health expenditure. For example, Medicare Benefits Schedule expenditure was lower for Indigenous Australians and decreased with remoteness, but the level of disparity actually decreased with remoteness, from a ratio of 0.58 in major cities to 0.77...