Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide in Context

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ernest Hunter
Helen Milroy
Archives of Suicide Research, vol. 10, no. 2, April-June 2006, pp. 141-157
Description
Looks at the sharp increase in young adult male suicides from the 1980s to substantially higher levels.
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Aboriginal, Anglo, and Immigrant Australian Students' Motivational Beliefs About Personal Academic Success: Are There Cultural Differences?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dennis M. McInerney
John Hinkley
Martin Dowson
Shawn Van Etten
Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 90, no. 4, December 1998, pp. 621-629
Description
Discusses and compares different learning goals; mastery (task oriented), performance (ego-oriented) and social (non-academic).
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Aboriginal Art: How to Create it

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barbara Herberholz
Arts and Activities, vol. 138, no. 5, January 2006, p. 14
Description
Video explanation, by Peggy Flores, an artist and educator, how the beliefs of the Australian Aborigines are reflected in their art, which in turn shows the connection between man and nature.
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Aboriginal Art: Sacred and Profane

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Anthony White
Art Journal , vol. 59, no. 4, Winter, 2000, pp. 105-107
Description
Book review of: Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A Guide to the Rebirth of an Ancient Culture by Susan McCulloch.
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"Aboriginal Art: Who Was Interested?"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Thomas
Journal of Art Historiography, no. 4, June 2011, pp. 1-10
Description
Looks at art-museum attraction to Aboriginal art. Revised article originally titled: "Aboriginal Art as Art: Who Was Interested?".
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Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Sylvia Kleinert
Aboriginal History, vol. 20, 1996, pp. 222-224
Description
Book review of: Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century by Andrew Sayers. Review located by scrolling to page 222.
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Aboriginal Arts & Crafts

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Win Hilliard
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1977, pp. 46-51
Description
States that art is one way that Aboriginals can add to Australian life while improving their personal and mental health.
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Aboriginal Attitudes to Smoking

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Peter Lake
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 16, no. 6, November/December 1992, p. 11
Description
Shows results from postal survey by Henderson staff sent to health agencies around Australia.
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Aboriginal Australian and Canadian First Nations Children's Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angeline O'Neill
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 13, no. 2, Thematic Issue: About Indigenous Literatures , June 2011, pp. 1-10
Description
Uses comparative methodology to look at children's picture books and unique features highlighting the combining of oral and written traditions.
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Aboriginal Australian's Experience of Social Capital and its Relevance to Health and Wellbeing in Urban Settings

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kathryn Browne-Yung
Anna Ziersch
Fran Baum
Gilbert Gallaher
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 97, November 2013, pp. 20-28
Description
Study conducted in-depth interviews with 153 individuals focusing on positive and negative impacts of relationship networks in a group with limited resources in terms of income, educational attainment and employment.
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Aboriginal Australians Abroad 1606-1875

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Mulvaney
Aboriginal History, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 41-48
Description
Looks at overseas voyagers and explorers, including the discovery of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
M.C. Dillon
Aboriginal History, vol. 19, 1995, pp. 228-230
Description
Book review of: Aboriginal Autonomy: Issues and Strategies by H. C. Coombs. Review located by scrolling to page 228.
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Aboriginal Camps as Urban Foundations?: Evidence from Southern Queensland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ray Kerkhove
Aboriginal History, vol. 42, December 2018, pp. 141-172
Description
Author explores oral traditions which document what is now Musgrave Park in South Brisbane, Queensland as a pre-settlement Aboriginal camp and meeting place; offers critical assessment of settler narratives surrounding Indigenous camps as inaccurate and marginalizing.
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Aboriginal Child Care in Hospital - Cairns

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ann Gray
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, September 1986, pp. 18-22
Description
Describes role as a combination of health assistant, educator, and liaison person in community in Queensland, Australia.
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Aboriginal Child in Hospital

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Viv Fuller
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 25-31
Description
Advocates for better education of the medical profession to understand cultural differences between themselves and their patients.
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The Aboriginal Child in the Present World

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lorna Wenitong
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, September 1982, pp. 10-14
Description
Article compares urban and rural (humpy) children in Australia.
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Aboriginal Child Poverty: Our Children are Our Future

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christine Choo
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 14, no. 3, September 1990, pp. 39-45
Description
Summary of report sponsored by the Secretariat of the National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) and the Brotherhood of St. Laurence.
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Aboriginal Child Welfare

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Chisholm
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, June 1982, pp. 54-57
Description
Commentary on the state of child welfare laws in Australia relating to Aboriginal youth and suggestions on how to improve them.
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Aboriginal Child Welfare and Health Outcomes in Manitoba

Alternate Title
The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba
E-Books
Author/Creator
Brad McKenzie
Corbin Shangreaux
Description
Chapter from The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba edited by Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon, and Jim Silver. Material presented as exhibit 130 from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.
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Aboriginal Children

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Philip Morrissey
Australian Humanities Review, no. 42, August 2007, p. [?]
Description
Looks at the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and homes.
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Aboriginal Children in Hospital 20 Years On

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Rita Williams
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 6, November/December 1996, pp. 5-7
Description
Promotes need for outreach Paediatric service to reduce hospitalization, improvements to housing and food, and cross-cultural awareness training for hospital staff.
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Aboriginal Children in Urban Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helen Lawrence
Issues in Educational Research, vol. 4, no. 1, 1994, pp. 19-26
Description
Looks at inequities in the Australian education system and government policies to address the situation.
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Aboriginal Community Health in South West Sydney

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Audrey Tindal
Dorothy Shipley
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, July/August 1995, pp. 16-17
Description
Health care workers discuss roles in the community and the health programs they look after.
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Aboriginal Community Health Workers: Our Screening Program

Articles » General
Author/Creator
K. Abbott
T. Beck
T. Cutter
H. Nelson
M. Armstrong
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, September 1979, pp. 24-28
Description
Explains a local health record system that enables semi-literate health workers to independently assess children and keep accurate health records of patients.
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Aboriginal Council Takes Control of Research

Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, July/August 2004, pp. 33-34
Description
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) commits the university-based research centres to assist the Tangentyere (Australia) Council in taking control of research activities in their own communities.
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Aboriginal Creative Writing: A Survey to 1981

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam Shoemaker
Aboriginal History, vol. 6, no. 2, 1982, pp. 111-129
Description
Comments on some of the first Aboriginal authors published according to genre.
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Aboriginal Curriculum Integration Project

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Curriculum Integration Project
Description
Lesson plans for K-12 in the areas of: English, Social Studies, Math, Science and Physical Education. Includes some instructional videos.
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Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: A Continuing Systematic Abuse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris Cunneen
Social Justice, vol. 33, no. 4 (106), Deaths in Custody and Detention, 2006, pp. 37-51
Description
Looks at Aboriginal over-representation in all aspects of the criminal justice system in Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Uses the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to focus on deaths in police custody and prison in Australia.
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