Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 6, November-December 2003, pp. 25-27
Description
Describe the $5.2M Rio Tinto Child Health Partnership which is focused on reducing smoking and alcohol during pregnancy and improving child health capacity.
"Oh How Different": Regimes of Knowledge in Aboriginal Texts for Children
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clare Bradford
The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 27, no. 2, April 2003, pp. 199-217
Description
Examines Australian children's literature including Booyooburra, a story of the Wakka Wakka people from Barambah in Queensland, Australia, the Papunya School Book of Country and History and Killing Darcy, a novel for adolescents.
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision)
Description
Measures the well-being against indicators across a range of areas including health, education and employment, and identifies programs and policies which appear to be improving outcomes.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, January/February 2003, pp. 7-9
Description
Reports on the history of palliative care and identifies the needs that require a multidisciplinary team approach: physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural .
Book review of: People of the Rivermouth by Frank Gurrmanamana, Les Hiatt and Kim McKenzie with Betty Ngurrabangurraba, Betty Meehan and Rhy Jones.
Review located by scrolling to page 258.
Presents two case studies illustrating identity politics in which Aboriginal Tasmanians are routinely immersed and then explains why and how the politics have developed.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 31.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 4-8
Description
Suggests that certain factors occur with a greater frequency in the Indigenous Australian population such as obesity, diabetes and a lack of physical activity.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 27, no. 2, 2003, pp. 161-178
Description
Presents some ideas from the author's dissertation, which stresses the importance of relationships and the merging of "formal" and Indigenous knowledge systems.
Argues that the relationality of Indigenous and non-Indigenous constituencies within the postcolonial nation in Australia has always been mediated by the discourse of race.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 75.
Compares delivery of secondary education to Indigenous young people to other states in Australia and outcomes being achieved by remote and urban students.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, May/June 2003, pp. 11-16
Description
Discusses a method for transfer of skills and knowledge through the Family Wellbeing empowerment program. Issue of control is a key factor in disease rates among Australian Aboriginal peoples.
Submission to the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee Inquiry into Aboriginal Customary Law in the Northern Territory
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Description
Statistics show there is a breakdown of Indigenous community and family due to an erosion of traditional, customary law functions that address behavior. Looks at recognition of Aboriginal title using various cases as examples.
Contents that the only way to control the disease is for government health departments to recognize the disease as a priority and to establish appropriate systems to treat and monitor patients.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, March/April 2003, p. 31
Description
Brief article describes an Indigenous Mental Health Symposium held in Toowoomba (South East Queensland), Australia. Findings stress the need to work collectively.
Book review of: The Town Grew Up Dancing by Wenten Rubuntja and Jenny Green with contributions from Tim Rowse.
Review located by scrolling to page 261.