Book review of three books: Aboriginal Workers edited by Ann McGrath and Kay Saunders, with Jackie Huggins.
Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry by Dawn May.
Indians at Work by Rolf Knight.
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Borderlands E - Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-8
Description
Explores the dichotomy between cultural relativism and universalism and examines how these tensions are used to legitimize assimilation by the Australian colonial state.
Survey questions focused on four core areas: awareness, attitudes, perceptions and action. Sample consisted of 1,007 non-Indigenous individuals aged 18 or more and 617 Indigenous Australians.
Survey developed to provide a benchmark of progress towards reconciliation by measuring knowledge of facts, attitudes, and actions taken by individuals and governments. Sample was 1,007 Australians aged eighteen and up.
IPA Backgrounder, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 1-24
Description
Disputes issues discussed in the 1997 national inquiry report, Bringing Them Home, such as specific cases, comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child removal and the claim of genocide.
Argues that there is an over-emphasis in the Closing the Gap approach on equality between Indigenous and other Australians and too little emphasis on diversity and difference.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, January/February 2009, pp. 16-17
Description
Summary of Baseline Evaluation Report provides snapshot of childbearing population revealing need for support and treatment, awareness raising, and professional education and training.
E Law: Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, vol. 16, no. 2, 2009, pp. 38-71
Description
Discusses the historic compensation package agreed to by the Canadian federal government and the lack of any similar actions by the governments of the other two countries.
Australian Army Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, Autumn, 2009, pp. 191-206
Description
Discusses how official policy changed from exclusion to inclusion of Aborigines after the high losses of personnel in 1917 and 1918 and presents a case study of the experiences of three Aboriginal enlistees in the Australian Imperial Force.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to the appropriate page.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 43-48
Description
Author states that when local community organizations are empowered with the delivery of employment and training programs, the chances of a successful outcome is improved.
"The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a range of options for constitutional reform in order to promote discussion and exploration of specific possibilities for Australia".
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, February 21, 2009, pp. 548-573
Description
Presents findings from 312 Indigenous volunteers who responded to the Measure of Indigenous Racism Experiences (MIRE) as part of the Darwin Region Urban Indigenous Diabetes (DRUID) study. Interpersonal racism was reported by 70 per cent of participants.
Comments on an appropriate approach to Aboriginal art and the issues of art production, art reception and representation with specific reference to Bush Tomato Dreaming by artist Lucy Ngwarai Kunoth.
Journal of Ecotourism, vol. 8, no. 2, June 2009, p. 144–160
Description
Looks at the critical perspective on the capacity of Indigenous ecotourism to foster more sustainable lifeways in the hope of transforming the destructive nature of the Western environmental paradigm.
Lancet, vol. 374, no. 9683, July 04, 2009, pp. 76-85
Description
Looks at Indigenous notions of health and identity, mental health and addictions, urbanization and environmental stresses, whole health and healing, and reconciliation.
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, vol. 1, no. 3, 2009, pp. 35-51
Description
Comments on the failure of the reconciliation process and the Howard Government, to recognize Indigenous rights such as sovereignty, a treaty, self-determination and land rights.
Book review of: Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972 by Heather Goodall.
Review located by scrolling to page 274.