Indigenous
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Aboriginal responses to climate change in arid zone Australia
Abstract Given the broad scale and fundamental transformations occurring to the natural environment due to anthropogenic climate change in the present era, what does the future hold for Aboriginal people in remote arid regions of Australia? In searching for answers to this question, this study takes an interior arid-zone region, the Upper Georgina River Basin...
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Indigenous reform 2011-12: comparing performance across Australia
This report found that Australia was on track to halve the gap in child death rates within 10 years. In education, more young Indigenous people were completing Year 12 and studying post school qualifications, but Indigenous children were not doing well in reading and numeracy. Key findings: There has been good progress on 3 of...
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Indigenous voices in climate change adaptation
Abstract This project investigated how the deep knowledge of the Yorta Yorta people can be used to strengthen their participation and influence in the complex national and regional processes that determine how their traditional lands, which are in the highly-contested Murray-Darling Basin, are managed, leading to improved adaptation decisions both for the Yorta Yorta and...
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Indigenous women's preference for climate change adaptation and aquaculture development to build capacity in the Northern Territory
Abstract Research was carried out on South Goulburn Island, Northern Territory, to improve understandings of local, Indigenous people’s dependency on marine resources, and of their perspectives on climate change, and aquaculture as a means towards adapting to climate change. Workshops and interviews were carried out mostly with women, but also some men with an emphasis...
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Indigenous provisions in the 2013-14 budget
There are several critical developments in 2013 that together will likely determine whether the goal of Indigenous health equality is achieved by 2030, writes Lesley Russell.