Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
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Year: 2006
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Author: Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health
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Publisher: WA Country Health Services
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Western Australia
WA Country Health Services (WACHS) is endeavouring to develop a service delivery model to provide allied health and rehabilitation services to Aboriginal people in remote communities. A Community Based Rehabilitation model, with an emphasis on Community Based Workers, has been proposed as a viable framework.
There are significant barriers to the ....
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Year: 2004
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Author: d'Abbs, P; Wong, M; Tamwoy, E; Haswell-Elkins, M; Rogers, W; McDermott, R
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Journal Name: Health Promotion Journal of Australia: Official Journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals
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Journal Number: Vol. 15, No. 3
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Torres Strait
Issue addressed: Although it is well known that there is a very high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the Torres Strait Islands and Northern Peninsula Area (NPA), little has been published on the personal perspectives and situations that the people with diabetes face in daily life, which includes managing their disease. This study ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: Jocelyn Davies; Yiheyis Maru
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Journal Name: Dialogue
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Journal Number: Vol.29, No.1
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Country: Australia
Paper aims to discuss 'livelihoods' as a concept that has value in understandings both about Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people; and secondly to illustrate how 'livelihoods analysis' can contribute to stronger intercultural understandings of human well-being and regional sustainability.
Report Locationhttp://nintione.com.au/publicat ....
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Year: 2012
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Author: Limerick, Michael; Morris, Robyn; Sutton, Melissa
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Publisher: Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government
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Published Location: Sydney, NSW
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Country: Australia
This report presents the findings of the first phase of an investigation into models for the funding and delivery of local government services in remote Indigenous communities in Australia.
A set of guiding principles critical to the design of any model for funding and delivering local government services to remote Indigenous communities was for ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: Biddle, Nicholas
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Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 0731549600
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Country: Australia
One of the potential constraints on achieving the Council of Australian Government's (COAG) employment target is location. It has been noted by a number of authors that the very different geographic distributions of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations is a key factor in explaining the former's socioeconomic disadvantage r ....
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Year: 2008
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Author: Taylor, John
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Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 0731549422
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Country: Australia
The ABS 2006 Post Enumeration Survey was extended to include a sample of localities from the whole of Australia, thereby providing an estimate of census net undercount reflective of the enumeration in remote Indigenous settlements for the first time; the results revealed substantial undercounting of the Indigenous population in cer ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: Clark, Kim D; Oosthuizen, Jacques; Beerenfels, Susan; Rowell, Anne-Marie C
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Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
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Journal Number: Vol.10, No.3
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Western Australia
Tambellup is a small rural town in Western Australia with a much higher Aboriginal population than the national average. Notably, this town has achieved very positive results for year one children in 2007 regional Australian Early Development Index testing. In 2009 the Great Southern GP Network requested that Edith Cowan University ....
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Year: 2011
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Author: Cheng, Melanie S; Clarke, Angela; Moore, Timothy D; Lau, Phyllis M
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Journal Name: Australian Health Review
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Journal Number: Vol. 35, No. 1
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Country: Australia
Objective. Health brokerage is one method being employed by government health agencies in an attempt to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people' access to primary healthcare. This qualitative study explores key stakeholders' understanding and acceptance of the health brokerage model, prior to the implementation of brok ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: Read, Christine M; Bateson, Deborah J
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Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
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Journal Number: Vol.9, No.2
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
Research shows that Australian Aboriginal women experience a significantly higher rate of mortality from cervical cancer than non-Aboriginal women. As infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is a necessary prerequisite for cervical cancer, a research project, the 'Women, Human papilloma virus prevalence, Indigenous, Non indigenou ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Brereton, David.
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Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism
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Published Location: Gold Coast, Qld
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ISBN: 9781920704940
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Country: Australia
The first of its kind undertaken, this study used a case study methodology to investigate the opportunities for using ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ mining project infrastructure to support the development of indigenous tourism operations in northern Australia. Key study objectives were to:
•Assess the potential to develop existing natural and indi ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: Brereton, David; Barker, Tanuja; Memmott, Paul; Thomson, Linda; O'Rourke, Tim; Chambers, Catherine; Reser, Joseph; Buultjens, Jeremy
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Publisher: Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Aboriginal Environments Research Centre
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Northern Australia
This study was funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Rio Tinto. The aim of the study was to investigate the opportunities for mining operations to support the development of Indigenous tourism ventures in remote and regional Australia.
Many Indigenous communities have cultural tr ....
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Year: 2003
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Author: McDonnell, Siobhan
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Journal Name: Australian Social Policy Conference
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Publisher: Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
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Published Location: Sydney, NSW
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Country: Australia
A lack of access to banking and financial services, otherwise termed financial exclusion, is one of the key aspects of the social exclusion of low income groups in Australian society. Individuals without access to banking services are at an economic disadvantage. Without the ability to save, individuals are denied a range of econom ....
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Year: 2001
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Author: Altman, J
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Editors: Morphy, F. and Sanders, W
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Journal Name: The Indigenous welfare economy and the CDEP Scheme
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Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 0731551044
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Country: Australia
First defining the boundaries of remote Australia, noting that about 70 per cent of the 265 Community Development Employment Projects (CDEPs) that existed in 1996, fall within this jurisdiction, this paper provides a brief assessment of the economic impact of the CDEP scheme in this remote region. McClure's and Pearson's prescripti ....
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Year: 2006
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Publisher: Council of Australian Governments
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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Country: Australia
The effects of mental illness are felt across our nation. Recent reports from Parliamentary inquiries and independent reviews have presented strong evidence for change in the way governments respond to mental illness. In February 2006, Australian leaders recognised that mental health is a major problem for the Australian community ....
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Year: Various
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Author: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
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Country: Australia
Under the Native Title Act 1993, the Social Justice Commissioner is required to prepare a Native Title Report each year for federal Parliament. Through these reports the Commissioner gives a human rights perspective on native title issues and advocates for practical co-existence between Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups in using land.
Availab ....
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