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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

'Emerging themes' : National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education

  • Year: 2000
  • Author: National Inquiry into Rural and Remote Education (Australia)
  • Publisher: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
  • Published Location: Sydney, NSW
  • Country: Australia

Includes a chapter on access to and participation in rural and remote education by Indigenous Australians; discusses barriers to participation and success; outcomes; Indigenous cultural studies; Indigenous languages. Report Locationhttp://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/rural_education/briefing/indigenous_ed.html ....

'Going back to country with bosses': the Yiriman Project, youth participation and walking along with elders

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Palmer, David; Watson, John; Watson, Anthony; Ljubic, Peter; Wallace-Smith, Hugh; Johnson, Mel
  • Journal Name: Children, Youth and Environments
  • Journal Number: Vol.16, No.2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

This paper describes a new approach to youth participation and development used by a youth organization, the Yiriman Project, in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. It offers an account of how people from isolated communities in the north of Australia organize bush trips, or what they call 'back to country' trips, to br ....

'Heritage and Regional Development: An Indigenous Perspective'

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Collins, Robbie; McMahon-Coleman, Kimberley
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 6, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

Heritage is important to regional development in terms of promoting a sense of place and a sense of identity for those in the region. Heritage is often expressed through culture and the arts as a means of manifesting a community's sense of what the community or region is about. For Indigenous communities this is particularly releva ....

'Virtual Justice in the Bush': The Use of Court Technology in Remote and Regional Australia

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Wallace, Anne
  • Journal Name: Journal of Law, Information and Science
  • Journal Number: 19
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

Courts and tribunals in Australia are making substantial investments in court technology, in particular, videoconferencing and broadband technology, as a way of delivering justice to remote and regional Australia. While the deployment of technology in this way is most often justified on the grounds of cost-savings and convenience, ....

'Which Bloke Would Stand Up for Yalata?': The Struggle of an Aboriginal Community to Control the Availability of Alcohol

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Brady, Maggie; Byrne, Joe; Henderson, Graham
  • Journal Name: Australian Aboriginal Studies
  • Journal Number: 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

Legislation to restrict the supply of alcohol has been introduced in many rural communities across Australia over the past ten to fifteen years. Overall these restrictions have been at the instigation of Aboriginal groups. This paper records the history of the struggle of one Aboriginal community in South Australia to restrict the ....

10 out of 10 deadly health stories: nutrition and physical activity : successful program from NSW Aboriginal community controlled health services

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of New South Wales
  • Publisher: Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of New South Wales
  • Published Location: Sunny Hills, N.S.W.
  • ISBN: 9780980515916
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

This booklet presents the stories of ten nutrition and physical activity programs for Indigenous people in New South Wales, demonstrating the potential and effectiveness of community initiatives. The programs were all delivered by Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (aCCHSs), in rural, urban, or regional areas, and were ....

A blueprint for action for regional Indigenous homelessness projects: safer places with new opportunities: consolidated report and strategies

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Queensland. Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
  • Publisher: Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
  • Published Location: Brisbane, Qld
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This document is a blueprint for action for regional Indigenous homelessness projects in Mt Isa, Cairns, and Townsville / Thuringowa. The blueprint details strategies to be implemented in cooperation with all stakeholders in each of the communities. Five strategic areas underpin the direction of the blueprint and will guide future ....

A complex balance: mediating sustainable development in Cape York Peninsula

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Smith, Benjamin R
  • Journal Name: The Drawing Board: an Australian Review of Public Affairs
  • Journal Number: Vol.4, No.2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

This paper examines 'sustainable development' in a contemporary remote Aboriginal rural community. The author argues that sustainability in Indigenous development in the central Cape York region involves an ongoing compromise between often incommensurable forms of social, political, and economic organisation. Drawing on material ga ....

A future for Indigenous youth?

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Beadman, Bob
  • Journal Name: Policy: a Review of Public Policy and Ideas
  • Journal Number: Vol.20, No.3
  • Country: Australia

The future of Indigenous communities depends on the introduction of a new framework of government assistance that focuses on mutual obligation requirements, rewarding of initiative not idleness, and policing of school attendance. The author explains how a set of mutual obligation principles for the bush would work, and how the Land ....

A half-hearted defence of the CDEP scheme

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Hunter, Boyd
  • Journal Name: Family Matters
  • Journal Number: 81
  • Country: Australia

The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme was developed as a response to the perceived social threat of 'sit-down money' to Indigenous communities in the 1970s. Ironically, the scheme is now being criticised as being one of the main factors driving the social effects of prolonged welfare dependence. This article u ....

A human capital approach to the educational marginalisation of Indigenous Australians

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Biddle, Nicholas
  • Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 073154966X
  • Country: Australia

Education is a key determinant at both a national and individual level for health, wellbeing and access to economic resources. What's more, education has intrinsic benefits for those who undertake it, as well as for those around them. The standard human capital model has been used by many to understand the education decisions that ....

A Measure of the Strength of the Relationship between the Indigenity and Desirability of Queensland State Schools

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Michaelson, Matthew Thomas
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, The
  • Journal Number: 35
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Queensland

Education Queensland's Remote Area Incentives Scheme (RAIS) is intended to provide financial and other benefits to teachers who choose to accept employment in undesirable locations in the state. On paper, this scheme claims that remoteness from an urban centre is the foremost measure of a school's undesirability. However, the perce ....

A new way of doing justice business? Community justice mechanisms and sustainable governance in Western Australia

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Blagg, Harry
  • Publisher: Law Reform Commission of Western Australia
  • Published Location: Perth, WA
  • ISBN: 1740350456
  • Country: Australia

With a main focus on developments in remote regions, this paper explores the current and potential contribution of Aboriginal community justice mechanisms to the goal of improving security and safety in Aboriginal communities and ensuring the maximum possible ownership of justice and justice related processes by Aboriginal communit ....

A project-based approach to improving services in reproductive and sexual health in rural areas

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Read, Christine
  • Journal Name: 7th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin, ACT
  • Country: Australia

In 2001, FPA Health, whose primary goal is to improve access to a range of reproductive and sexual health services for regional, rural and remote areas in New South Wales, conducted a reproductive and sexual health needs assessment of the Macquarie area. Community consultations were conducted with students, adolescent mothers, men, ....

A qualitative study of a social and emotional well-being service for a remote Indigenous Australian community: Implications for access, effectiveness, and sustainability

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Carey, Timothy A
  • Journal Name: BMC Health Services Research
  • Journal Number: 13.1
  • Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd.
  • Published Location: United Kingdom
  • Country: Australia

People living in rural and remote Australia experience increased mental health problems compared with metropolitan Australians. Moreover, Indigenous Australians are twice as likely as non Indigenous Australians to report high or very high levels of mental health problems. It is imperative, therefore, that effective and sustainable social and emot ....

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