Australia

Author presents a history of mental health in Africa.

Compares Indigenous rights cases in Canada, United States, Australia and Sweden and discusses the outcomes.

Examines issues surrounding the supply, quality, ownership and location of housing in aboriginal communities in Australia.

Compares perceptions of teaching from several backgrounds: a Yup'ik Eskimo teacher, an Anglo Australian teacher, and an Aboriginal Australian teacher. Reports school culture in Australia needs to change.

Describes how researchers can and should work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to jointly find solutions to community problems.

Contends that the best results come from a combination of good teaching and management on the school side, and support and determination on the community side.

Comments on the protocol of speaking rights by examining a specific debate about Aboriginal identities that took place in the journal Oceania in the 1992 and 1993 issues.

Committee heard that a desirable goal of the Commonwealth Department of Health (Australia) is more Aboriginal health care workers.

Discusses the on air practices of a group of young Walpiri women broadcasters at PAW radio in north central Australia.

Author reflects on her personal courage when moving to a new job and the rewards received for facing her fears.

New kits, videos and books available for health workers from the New South Wales Health promotion team on diabetes, nutrition, systems of the human body, and having babies.

Information booklets on AIDS and child sexual assault.

Comments on cross-cultural and all-Indigenous productions of various Shakespearean plays performed in Australia.

Presents interview data gained from wide range of people living in southeast Australia about what they know and how they feel about Australian Aboriginal people and issues.

Discusses the three main roles that Aboriginal health workers in Western Australia should play

Looks at the common themes which emerged from the project including the need for self determination and local leadership, the need to consider the social determinants of health, and more.

Authors use discourse analysis to engage with the online response to an essay they had coauthored previously; and provide criticism of social narratives that have erased the history of Indigenous peoples prior to the founding of Australia.

Comments on the high prevalence of suicide and the necessity to rethink conventional models and assumptions in suicide prevention.

Focuses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples in Australia.

Appendix.

Appendix B, Summary of Assessed Items, to accompany What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2009-10.

Access Appendixes B to D.

Appendixes to accompany What Works to Overcome Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Learnings and Gaps in the Evidence, 2011-2012.

Authors examine government policies and a range of community, education, business, health, and media initiatives that variously support or hinder efforts to maintain or revive the use of Indigenous languages. Compares the effects of language devaluation in two different colonized nations.

Short poem about how a boomerang can symbolize the loss of Aboriginal culture in Australia.

Book review of: When the Sky Fell Down by Keith Wiley. To access review, scroll down to page 204.

Brief story recalls the trauma suffered by an Aboriginal Australian women who had a child removed from her care.

Common sense advice for primary health (family) care providers.

Advisory article instructs parents what symptoms can be treated by care givers and when to seek medical help.

Instructs parents what symptoms can be treated by care givers and when to seek medical help.

Instructive article for Australian rural health research workers provides an understanding of the role that various politicians play in developing health policy.

Book review of: Where is Dr. Leichhardt? by Darrell Lewis. Scroll down to page 189 to read review.

Book review of: Where the Ancestors Walked by Philip Clarke. Review located by scrolling to page 162.

[Humanities and the Arts] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 2005.

[Archaeology and Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Australian National University, 1972.

Focuses on the United States stance and what it conveys about the colonial present in North America.

Briefly reports on the proceedings of the 6th Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN) Conference held in September 2004.

Book review of: Wherever I Go edited with an introduction and afterword by Jeremy Beckett. Review located by scrolling to page 316.

Book review of: Rethinking Social Justice: From 'Peoples' to 'Populations' by Tim Rowse.

Comments on the findings from a study based on the development and implementation of an Indigenous Cultural Competency Course

Discusses the impact of colonialism and how empowerment strategies are the key to creating generational change and establishing functional communities.

Book review of: Whispers of This Wik Woman by Fiona Doyle. Review located by scrolling to page 176.