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Aboriginal Mental Health Awareness: An Overview - Part Six Signs and Times

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Author/Creator
Ernest Hunter
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 5, September/October 1993, pp. 13-19
Looks at important symptoms for common mental health problems at different ages. The first groups deals with behaviours or problems with normal behaviour and the second group deals with behaviours that are abnormal.
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Aboriginal Mental Health - For Health Workers

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Author/Creator
Cliff Fua
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, December 1988, pp. 41-42
Study shows a sizable gap between health status of Aboriginal people in Australia and non-Aboriginals and inappropriate treatment especially regarding mental health.
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Aboriginal Mental Health: the Early Years

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Author/Creator
Cyril Hennessy
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, March/April 2006, pp. 23-24
Probation and parole officer discusses his early involvement in mental health and the obstacles faced developing Aboriginal health services.
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Aboriginal Mental Health: The Early Years

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Author/Creator
Cyril Hennessy
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 26-28
Author relates his personal experiences with alcohol and working as a probation and parole officer.
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Aboriginal Military Service and Assimilation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Noah Riseman
Aboriginal History, vol. 38, 2014, pp. 155-178
Focuses on three Aboriginal veterans and the prejudices they faced as they attempted to assimilate into mainstream Australian society.
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Aboriginal Nurses

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Author/Creator
Trudy Longbottom
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, December 1980, pp. 25-27
Discusses educational training possibilities for young people wanting to be health workers to serve in their home communities.
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The Aboriginal Nutrition Forum

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Author/Creator
Karen Rodgers
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 6, November/December 1996, pp. 17-18
Discusses factors effecting nutritious health access and a presentation about the Strong Women, Strong Babies, Strong Culture program.
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Aboriginal Oral Traditions of Australian Impact Craters

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Duane W. Hamacher
John Goldsmith
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 16, no. 3, [2013], pp. 295-311
Examines how Aboriginal stories and artworks relate to scientific accounts of Australian meteorite craters.
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Aboriginal Otitis Media Program: A Partnership In Action

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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 10-11
Describes partnership between Aboriginal Medical Services (Australia) and a local hospital to create an ear, nose and throat outreach clinic in New South Wales.
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Aboriginal Overseas Study Awards Scheme

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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, September 1985, pp. 59-60
Notice asking for expressions of interest for up to ten interested Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander individuals seeking to add to their skills and experience through short term overseas observational study.
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An Aboriginal Parenting Crisis

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Author/Creator
Lynn Barnett
Infant Observation, vol. 15, no. 1, February 2012, pp. 92-93
Comments on the infant mortality rate among the Aboriginal population compared to the Australian average.
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Aboriginal People And Injecting Drug Use: New Research

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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, March/April 2002, p. 13
Research report found that drug injection use by Aboriginals in Western Australia during the 1994-2002 period increased by more than 50%.
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Aboriginal People and Problem Drinking

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Author/Creator
Marvin Kahn
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, September 1982, pp. 44-49
Presents several factors contributing to the social and psychological distress of aboriginal people elevating substance abuse levels.
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Aboriginal People 'Talking Back' to Policy in Rural Australia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Inara Walden
Brianna Dennis
Walgett Gamilaraay Aboriginal Community Working Party
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2014, pp. 1-16
Presents community profile and case study of Walgett, chosen for priority attention in the government's commitment to remote service delivery.
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Aboriginal People Trade Land Claim for Dialysis

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bebe Loff
Stephen Cordner
Lancet, vol. 352, no. 9138, January 17, 1998, p. 194
Outlines the denial of a deal in which a land claim by the Jawoyn Aboriginal community was traded for an alcohol-rehabilitation centre and two renal-dialysis machines.
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Aboriginal People: Victims of Colonisation

Alternate Title
Aboriginal People: Victims of Colonization
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Author/Creator
Major Sumner
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, March/April 1995, pp. 8-11
Events leading up to a breakdown in society and culture caused by alcohol consumption.
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Aboriginal Peoples and Post-Secondary Education: What Educators Have Learned

Alternate Title
Does Money Matter: Millennium Research Series ; no. 8
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
R.A. Malatest & Associates
Focuses on strategies that promote recruitment and retention such as financial support, transition programs, community delivery, Aboriginal control, and partnerships between mainstream institutions and Aboriginal communities.
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An Aboriginal Perspective on Cancer

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Author/Creator
Maureen Kirk
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, May/June 1993, pp. 11-13
Discusses personal experience with cancer and career at the Royal Women's Hospital helping Aboriginal people who are going through cancer treatments.
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Aboriginal Political Representation: A Review of Several Jurisdictions

Alternate Title
Background Paper (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; BP-359E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Niemczak
Célia Justras
Briefly looks at experiences in Maine, New Zealand, Australia, and the Sami parliaments, with more in-depth look at the Canadian context. 2008 version.
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Aboriginal Political Representation: A Review of Several Juristictions

Alternate Title
Background Paper (Law and Government Division, Library of Parliament) ; BP-359E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Peter Niemczak
Brief overview of efforts made in Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, Maine and Canada to increase Indigenous presence in government institutions. 1999 version.
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Aboriginal Projects Undertaken in South Australia

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Author/Creator
Merilyn King
Kay Wilson
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 22, no. 6, November/December 1998, pp. 24-27
Reports on diabetes initiatives that have improved the health outcome of Indigenous Australians.
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Aboriginal Provision of Health Services Before and After Colonisation and Aboriginal Participation in and Control of Health Programs

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Provision of Health Services Before and After Colonization and Aboriginal Participation in and Control of Health Programs
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Emma Collins
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 5, September/October 1995, pp. 26-31
Looks at past health care services and current health worker training courses.
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Aboriginal Radical Discourses in Australia: A Reaction to Political Marginalisation, a Redefinition of Aboriginality?

Alternate Title
Culture and the State ; v. 2
Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Vanessa Castejon
pp. 133-140
Examines how the federalisation of Aboriginal people and the racial reactions to it gave birth to a redefinition of Aboriginality in Australia. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 133.
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Aboriginal Recommendations for Substance Use Intervention Programs

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Author/Creator
Fiona Nichols
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, May/June 2010, pp. 4-8
Looks at Aboriginal perceptions of substance abuse intervention programs and provides suggestions for programs different then those currently offered.
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Aboriginal Reconciliation Still a Long Way to Go

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bebe Loff
Ian Anderson
Lancet, vol. 355, no. 9220, June 10, 2000, p. 2070
Comments on the Australian Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and gives examples of injustices and how relations have deteriorated.
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Aboriginal Recovery From Depression: Eleven Clinical Types

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Author/Creator
John Cawte
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, September 1981, pp. 14-31
Comments on the doctor-patient relationship and the efforts to raise awareness of the National Aboriginal Mental Health Association (NAMHA).
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Aboriginal Research: An Aboriginal Perspective

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Author/Creator
Louisa Collins
Lewis Poulson
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, March/April 1991, p. 6
Looks at how Menzies School of Health Research is working towards a better relationship with Aboriginal people when conducting research in a community.
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