Contemporary Nurse, vol. 22, no. 2, 2006, pp. 174-177
Description
Opinion piece concerning the poor health of Aboriginal people in Australia from the perspective of a Research Associate in the Aboriginal Health Research Unit at Flinders University.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, July/August 2006, pp. 12-15
Description
Brief excerpt from, In Our Own Right, Black Australian Nurses' Stories edited by Sally Oam and Kerrynne Liddle about the challenges of being Aboriginal and rising to a nurse educator.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 5, September/October 2006, pp. 22-28
Description
Biographical article of Nancy De Vries, a registered nurse who was removed from her mother and raised in a white family environment.
Extracted from The Lost Children edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read.
Maori Health Indicators: A Background Paper for the Project 'Action Oriented Indicators for Health and Health Systems Development for Indigenous Peoples in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand'
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mihi Ratima
Will Edwards
Sue Crengle
Janet Smylie
Ian Anderson
Description
Outlines the Māori health indicator set development in context of the health sector.
Looks at a project which attempted to bring together scientific and Aboriginal knowledge by recording stories, oral histories and other forms of documentation.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall, 2006, pp. 74-91
Description
Comments on the necessity of mining projects being located on Aboriginal lands to make the maximum possible contribution to Aboriginal economic development.
Alternatives Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, October 1996, p. 10
Description
Argues that assessment can be a good process for determining whether or not the outcomes of economic development are positive or negative and for ensuring that environmental and human equity concerns provide an ethical base for decision making.
Looks at the massacre of twenty-three Aborigines, the depositions of the European witnesses to the events, and the draft of a bill to provide for the Evidence of Aborigines in courts of justice.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, May/June 1996, pp. 17-18
Description
Discusses the partnership between the New South Wales government, Community Controlled Medical Services and Aboriginal communities and the development of a State Aboriginal health policy.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, May/June 2006, pp. 6-8
Description
Offers a history of the events surrounding the founding of the Pre-Med program in 1997 at the University of Western Australia. Each year 6 places for Indigenous students to study Medicine and 2 places for Dentistry are allocated.
Traces changes in Western attitudes toward the classification of objects and the subsequent evolution of the terminology used to refer to them.
Chapter 17 from Handbook of Material Culture edited by Chris Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Küchler, Mike Rowlands and Patricia Spyer.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, March/April 2006, pp. 28-33
Description
Chronicles training evolution of Kathy Abbott from hospital laundress at age 17 to President of the Alice Springs and Barkly Aboriginal Health Workers Association.