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Indigenous

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Children 'growing' the declaration strong: opportunities and strategies for advancing Indigenous children's rights


This paper explores various avenues to give greater attention to the protection and promotion of Indigenous children’s rights through implementation of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in combination with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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An enhanced mortality database for estimating Indigenous life expectancy


The aim of this feasibility study is to improve reporting of information on Indigenous deaths by linking death registrations data with several additional data sets that contain information on Indigenous deaths. Linkage of registered deaths data to the additional data sets identified 10.2 per cent more deaths that were not identified as Indigenous on the...
Book

Indigenous participation in Australian economies II: historical engagements and current enterprises


This book resulted from a research project intended to revisit historical, spatially diverse and now contemporary articulations of Indigenous and settler-state and settler-capitalist social and economic forms.
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National best practice guidelines for data linkage activities relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people


The Guidelines focus on six key aspects of data linkage. These are the values and ethics in human research relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, transparency and accountability, the quality of the Indigenous status variable on key data sets, the quality of the variables that are used for the linkage, the quality of...
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Indigenous job training: questioning the numbers


This Topical Issue critically analyses the use of statistics on Indigenous jobs by Andrew (Twiggy) Forrest and the Australian Government. Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s May 2 address to the National Press Club signalled another war of words with the Gillard Government, this time over his plan for Indigenous jobs. Forrest used the occasion to criticise...