Australia

Unfinished Journey -- Indigenous Self-Determination: Setbacks and Political Reaction have led Many to Turn Away from the Difficult Project of Extending Indigenous Rights. But it is Only Through Completing the Journey to Full Self-Determination...

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Larissa Behrendt
Arena Magazine, vol. 24, no. 4, April/May 2002, pp. 24-28
Description
Self-determination allows for the setting of standards and to set the goal of what is trying to be achieved, for the next, sympathetic era.
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Unintended Consequences: Satellite Policy and Indigenous Television

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ellie Rennie
Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, no. 149, Indigenous Media Practice, November 2013, pp. 92-103
Description
Comments on the introduction of the Viewer Access Satellite Television platform in 2010 and the introduction of AUSSAT in the mid-1980s.
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Universality: What Space Exists For Aboriginality?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Irene Watson
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 15-25
Description
Article examines the challenges of discrimination and the exclusion of Aboriginal views from mainstream Australian society.
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Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jocelyn Davies
Aboriginal History, vol. 34, 2010, pp. 309-311
Description
Book review of: Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning by Libby Porter. Review located by scrolling to page 309.
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Unpaid Work, Unpaid Care, Unpaid Assistance and Volunteering

Alternate Title
2011 Census Paper Series
CAEPR Indigenous Population Project 2011 Census Papers ; no. 4
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mandy Yap
Nicholas Biddle
Description
Data from the 2011 Australian Census shows that a high proportion of caring activities are being undertaken in regional and remote areas of the country.
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Untitled [Poem]

Articles » General
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, March 1986, p. 61
Description
Poem comments on the loss suffered by the Australian Aboriginal people with the arrival of the Europeans.
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Update On The Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study

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Author/Creator
Susan Sayers
Dorothy Mackerras
Gurmeet Singh
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, March/April 2004, pp. 6-8
Description
Describes a long term study from 1987 that looked at the impacts of maternal health and birth size on childhood growth, nutrition, morbidity and chronic disease risk factors.
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Update on the Aboriginal Birth Cohort Study: Wave 3 Methods at 20 Years

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Author/Creator
Susan Sayers
Gurmeet Singh
Joseph Fitz
Kobi Shultz
Belinda Davson
Lisa Jamieson
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, July/August 2008, pp. 18-20
Description
Describes the methods of the study which looked at 686 Aboriginal babies born at the Royal Darwin Hospital between January 1987 and March 1990.
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"Urimbirra Geen" - To Take Care Of Your Heart

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Author/Creator
Melinda Green
Fiona Dangerfield
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 24, no. 4, July/August 2000, pp. 3-5
Description
Describes the events arising at the Aboriginal Health Forum which led to the creation of a Coordinator of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heart Care Project in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
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Us Women, Our Ways, Our World

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Tanja Hirvonen
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri: Pimatisiwin, vol. 2, no. 2, September 2017, pp. 142-144
Description
Book review of: Us Women, Our Ways, Our World edited by Pat Dudgeon, Jeannie Herbert, Jill Milroy and Darlene Oxenham.
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Use and Uptake of Web-based Therapeutic Interventions amongst Indigenous Populations in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada: A Scoping Review

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel Reilly
Jacqueline Stephens
Jasmine Micklem
Catalin Tufanaru
Stephen Harfield … [et al.]
Systematic Reviews, vol. 9, 2020, p. article 123
Description

Findings from 31 studies were summarized by: first author; study population and context; aim/method and health condition, intervention and delivery type; measured impacts/outcomes; explanation for uptake and effects; and authors' conclusions/recommendations.

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Useful Internet Addresses

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Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, January/February 2005, p. 16
Description
Briefly lists internet addresses for 42 Australian Aboriginal organizations.
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Using a Health Promotion Framework with an "Aboriginal Lens'

Alternate Title
Making Two Worlds Project
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mungabareena Aboriginal Corporation
Women Health Goulburn North East
Description
Examines a cultural sensitive and responsive framework, developed as a resource for health workers to promote Aboriginal health, which considers factors and approaches, builds on Aboriginal strengths, and reflects on values, assumptions and feedback.
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Using in CHASP in Aboriginal Health

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Author/Creator
Barry Watson
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 19, no. 3, May/June 1995, pp. 20-21
Description
Reports on the review of an Aboriginal community medical service in Wooloongabba in Brisbane by CHASP (Community Health Accreditation Standards Program) and goals of the service.
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Using the Health Hardware Method to Measure Poverty in Indigenous Australia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Eileen Willis
Meryl Pearce
Carmel McCarthy
Sharon Meagher
Ben Wadham
International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, vol. 3, no. 2, August 2009, pp. 191-202
Description
Studies four communities in southern Australia using Tregenza's adaptation to the Cost of Living methodology to create a connection between poverty and health.
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Utopia Story

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Author/Creator
Wangka Alpmillinia
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, March 1982, pp. 56-58
Description
Describes the role of the Urapuntja Council in Utopia, a remote area located 240 kilometres north east of Alice Springs, Australia
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Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Policy for Indigenous Populations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert I. Menzies
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach For the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1263-1283
Description
Reviews literature, government reports and immunization guidelines from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, an the United States.
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Valentine's Story

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Author/Creator
Valentine Clumpoint
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 43-46
Description
Personal account of struggles with alcohol abuse and recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous in Queensland, Australia.
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Valuing Community in Postgraduate Education

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Author/Creator
Shaun Ewen
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 6, November-December 2004, p. 6
Description
Briefly describes the three postgraduate subjects in Aboriginal health for the Master of Public Health program for 2004.
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Valuing Diversity

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Author/Creator
Pat Anderson
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, May/June 2004, pp. 26-27
Description
Discusses consequences of the official Australian policy of Assimilation or the Stolen Generation and initiatives in Aboriginal community-controlled Health Services.
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Venereal Disease

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Author/Creator
Charlie Gunaburra
Alexander Thompson
Tessie McDonald
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, March 1979, pp. 15-21
Description
Health workers report on their experiences regarding the expanding number of people contracting venereal diseases.
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Veterans' Benefits and Indigenous Veterans of the Second World War in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. Scott Sheffield
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring, 2017, pp. 63-79
Description
"This study addresses the gap in our understanding through a transnational examination of the administration of veterans' benefits for Indigenous military personnel in four victorious settler societies that all mobilized significant recruits from their Indigenous minority populations".
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