Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
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Year: 2004
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Author: Carney, Libby
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Journal Name: Indigenous Law Bulletin
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Journal Number: Vol.6, No.1
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Country: Australia
This article explores some of the reasons why family violence is an increasing issue for Indigenous peoples, and recent developments aimed at combating the problem. Discussion includes Indigenous and Western law, self determination and family violence, and the need for governments to develop a better and closer relationship with In ....
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Year: 2003
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Author: Lowell, Anne; Maypilama, Elaine; Biritjalawuy, Dianne
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Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 1876831731
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Northern Territory
The study which is the subject of this report was initiated to provide a greater opportunity for Indigenous people themselves to develop and articulate their own theories about the relationship between their education and health. This was to provide the basis from which practical strategies could be generated to achieve community-d ....
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Year: 2011
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Author: McCarney, P.C.M.
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Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
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Publisher: Trent University (Canada)
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Published Location: Canada
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ISBN: 9780494682357
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Country: Canada
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State/Region: Ontario
This thesis investigates resource development involving Aboriginal communities, with a focus on Ontario, and the factors that generate conflict. It explores the frameworks governing mining and the environmental effects of these activities, with a specific focus on the relationships between these activities and Indigenous jurisdiction; t ....
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Year: 2005
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Author: Armstrong R; Morrison J; Yu P
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Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Northern Australia
Indigenous people have had a presence for thousands of years throughout Australia, and have in the process, developed a sustainable society based on close connections to both terrestrial and marine environments. In recent times, the colonisation of Australia, has left the Indigenous people marginalized and often subject to entrench ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: DB Carson, DA Carson, A Taylor
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Journal Name: Annals of Tourism Research
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Journal Number: 42
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Northern Territory
The paper proposes a model explaining how ‘problem tourists’ emerge at tourism destinations. Problem tourists are incompatible with the accepted dominant status of tourism and emerge from social distance between tourists and hosts, or between different groups of tourists. A case study of long grassers in Darwin, the capital of Australia’s N ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Andreasyan, Karen; Hoy, Wendy E.; Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan, Srinivas N.
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Journal Name: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
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Journal Number: Vol.31, No.5
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Queensland
OBJECTIVES:
To quantify Indigenous mortality, compare it with non-Indigenous mortality, and identify causes of excess Indigenous mortality by remoteness in Queensland, 1997-2000.
DESIGN:
Cross-sectional survey of all deaths of Queensland residents registered in Australia during the study period.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Mortality rates were st ....
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Year: 2004
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Author: Borg, Tracey; Paul, Anne
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Publisher: SNAICC
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Published Location: North Fitzroy, Vic
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Country: Australia
Phase One of the Parenting Information Project consists of a literature review, program audit and substantial national consultations on parenting information and programs for Australian parents including those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. This document reports upon the Indigenous component. The Department ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: Biddle, Nicholas.; Taylor, J.; Yap, Mandy.
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Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 0731556631
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Country: Australia
This paper examines the extent to which Indigenous Australians have shared in the large expansion of the Australian workforce that is revealed by a comparison of 2001 and 2006 census results. It considers whether this is reflected in changes to regional patterns of Indigenous labour force status, income, occupation and industry of ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: Zhao, Yuejen; Condon, John R; Li, Shu Qin; Guthridge, Steven and Chondur, Ramakrishna.
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Journal Name: The Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
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Journal Number: Vol. 19 No. 3
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Publisher: Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association
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Published Location: Armidale, NSW
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ISBN: 1324-0935
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Country: Australia
This study analysed interregional migration for Indigenous patients in the Northern Territory, Australia. Individual-level linked hospitalisation data between July 1998 and June 2011 were used to describe the migration patterns and associated factors. Micro-simulations were conducted to assess the impacts on mortality estimates. Indigenous patien ....
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Year: 2004
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Author: Australian National University
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
Statistical profile on Indigenous people in the Murray Darling Basin.
Report Locationhttp://caepr.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Publications/DP/2004_DP264.pdf ....
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Year: 2003
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Author: Saunders, John ; Jones, Michael ; Bowman, Kaye ; Loveder, Phil ; Brooks, Louise
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Publisher: NCVER
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Published Location: Adelaide, SA
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ISBN: 1740961765
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Country: Australia
Provides a statistical review of Australian Indigenous peoples' participation and outcomes in vocational education and training (VET) over the period 1997-2001; provides base benchmarks that can assist in assessing trends; includes a disaggregated analysis by geographic region; presents more than forty tables
Report Locationhttp://www ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: Boero Rodriguez V; Puangsumalee P; Griffiths G
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Publisher: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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ISBN: 1920925570
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Country: Australia
Agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries are an important source of employment for Australia's indigenous people. Around 4 per cent of the indigenous workforce is employed in these industries but this represents little more than 1 per cent of all people working in agriculture, fisheries and forestry in Australia. Little is kn ....
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Year: 2002
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Author: Nettheim, Garth; Craig, Donna. ; Meyers, Gary D
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Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 085575379X
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Country: Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Greenland, Scandinavia
Examines ways Indigenous peoples have used national and international legal mechanisms to create governance structures which facilitate interaction with non-Indigenous governments and structures, while remaining as close as possible to Indigenous structures and processes; includes studies from the United States, Alaska, Canada; New ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: Woolley, T., Sivamalai, S., Ross, S., Duffy, G. and Miller, A.
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Editors: David Perkins
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Journal Name: Australian Journal of Rural Health
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Journal Number: Vol. 21 No. 2
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Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
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ISBN: 1440-1584
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Country: Australia
Providing an emphasis on Indigenous health in medical undergraduate education is seen as a high priority by Australian medical organisations. A regional North Queensland medical school asked local Indigenous people to list personal attributes they want to see in graduate doctors who choose to practise in their remote community.
Report Locationh ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: McCausland, Ruth; Levy, Marc
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Journal Name: Australian Journal of Social Issues
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Journal Number: Vol.41, No.3
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Country: Australia
Shared Responsibility Agreements (SRAs) are a key instrument of the Federal Government’s new arrangements for the administration of Indigenous affairs. SRAs, described by the Government as a form of ‘mutual obligation’, require Indigenous communities to commit to behavioural changes or other actions in order to access ‘discretionary’ go ....
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