Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 19-20
Description
Biennial conference attracted 1,200 delegates. Only two issues have been on the agenda for the 17 years of these gatherings. One is indigenous life expectancy, the other indigenous health inequality.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 21-23
Description
Discusses program which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
NOTE: pdf displays incorrect information (vol. 30 no.6 November/December 2006)
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, May/June 2003, pp. 19-21
Description
Describes the State Conference of the Aboriginal Disability Network, held in November 2002 which was convened to bring together Australian Aboriginal people with disabilities and families and health providers from across New South Wales, Australia.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, May/June 2003, pp. 25-27
Description
Discusses goals of the group which represents 23 Aboriginal communities across South Australia and includes interview with the State Director about plans for the future.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, March 1981, pp. 13-15
Description
Author argues that most neglected part of Australian Aboriginal health is mental health and that alcohol abuse is rooted in the rapid changes in Aboriginal society.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 27, no. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 10-11
Description
Describes partnership between Aboriginal Medical Services (Australia) and a local hospital to create an ear, nose and throat outreach clinic in New South Wales.
Examines the increase in incarceration from 1991 to 2001, and found that Aboriginal people were not being assisted while in prison or when released from prison.
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.
Social Sciences and Medicine, vol. 64, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 125-137
Description
Looks at how Australian politicians have shaped decades of health policy and influenced health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia.
Australian Humanities Review, no. 43, December 2007, p. [?]
Description
Comments on the life of a successful Australian artist.
Chapter from author's book, Green Power: Environmentalists Who Have Changed the Face of Australia.
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 3, no. 156, February 8, 2003, pp. 1-10
Description
Study identifies risk factors for adult renal disease through a screening program known as the Umoona Kidney Project. Information will be used by Aboriginal health workers.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. [14]-[15]
Description
Statistics from the National Alcohol Indicators Project (NAIP) showed that Australia still has a long way to go address the health inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Examines the controversy over the question of the author's Aboriginality and ethnicity.
Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies.
Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 108.
BRNO Studies in English, no. 33, 2007, pp. 143-156
Description
Examines two life writing narratives by Indigenous women writers from Australia and Canada to demonstrate the ways in which they present alternative (hi)stories of removed Indigenous children.
Canadian Dimension, vol. 41, no. 1, Indian Country, January/February 2007, pp. 48-51
Description
Focuses on activism in film and media arts, highlighting the ImagineNATIVE Film and Arts Festival and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN).