The Ceduna Koonibba Aboriginal Health Service uses the following strategies to improve the lifespan and quality of life of its clients: being a part of the community; using traditional health care; yarnin (stroytelling or narrative therapy); cooperative work with other organisations; and thinking laterally when it comes to allied health service shortage. The paper describes...

In this paper Tom Karmel aims to establish the importance of vocational education and training (VET) to young people in South Australia in Adelaide and regional areas. It finds that VET, as a substitute of continuing school, is important in Adelaide and regional areas, although it is more important in non-metropolitan areas. Further, lower socio-economic...

This report presents the findings of research that aimed to assess the extent to which the various objectives of tenure diversification policies have been achieved.

Making the Connections is the result of the Social Inclusion Board’s investigation into the causes of low school retention rates and our response as Government to the Board’s work. It considers ways young people and their families, schools, government agencies and communities can work together on the issues that cause many young people to become...

This paper outlines some of the key findings of two complementary research projects both of which studied intra- migration within the Australian states of New South Wales and South Australia.