"Paper aims to ensure that the Child and Family Health Service's future service delivery framework, as proposed in the 'Case for Change' discussion paper, optimises the outcomes for Aboriginal children and families along with the wider population."
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, January/February 2008, pp. 27-29
Description
Comments that awareness training can be achieved through strategic policy direction, educational partnerships and accountabilities to the Indigenous community.
Updated plans for improvement of the social and economic situation of Aboriginal and Torres Streat Islander peoples and relationships with Australia's First Peoples through education and entrepreneurship.
Speaker argues that in the context of the violent history of dispossession in State-Indigenous interactions, the residential school truth and reconciliation process privileges only one form of violation, and allows for absolution without accountability for crimes or true changes in government behaviour.
Duration: 1:22:38.
Popular Music and Society, vol. 31, no. 5, December 2008, pp. 575-597
Description
Uses interviews, music and lyrics, artists and record label website to show the popularity of reggae music in Indigenous communities in the US southwest, New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, January/February 2008, pp. 16-17
Description
Report celebrates the final major academic work of ten third year students in the Bachelor of Health Science Degree (Indigenous Mental Health) program.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 6, November/December 2008, pp. 18-19
Description
Article mentions the, "social exclusion" created by income inequality particularly affecting Indigenous people. Also chronicles HIV/AIDS rates in various countries.
Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
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Maryrose Casey
Description
Chapter from Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies edited by Ian Maxwell.
Explores major themes identified by interviewing 15 participants regarding research and researchers.
Behavioural Science Honours Dissertation --University of Notre Dame, Australia, 2008.
International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, vol. 4, no. 1, 2016, pp. 4-32
Description
Review of 33 published and grey literature sources. Analysis includes population characteristics, age, method, definition of resilience and key findings for each item.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 17-27
Description
Contends that before Australian sociology expands its engagement with Indigenous issues and knowledges, there needs to be reconsideration and reconciliation with past beliefs and practices.
Discusses debates surrounding ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and looks at three Indigenous initiatives: Igloolik Isuma, "Us Mob", and "Raven Tales" projects.
Chapter 8 from The Media and Social Theory edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee.
Purpose of paper was to review various methods of gathering data at the provincial level, identify best practices and make recommendations for the development of standards.
Book review of: Rights and Redemption: History, Law and Indigenous People by Ann Curthoys, Ann Genovese , Alexander Reilly.
Review located by scrolling to page 186.
Judge ruled that the Crown could not sue on behalf of victims, which undermined the position that Aboriginals were wards of the state. Article uses new archival documents to document litigation and show the ideological dilemmas faced by the welfare administration.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2008, pp. 45-51
Description
Document consists of two chapters, one examining colonial history and the second reviewing aspects of Keith Windschuttle's book, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, March/April 2008, pp. 6-7
Description
Contains the text of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology statement which was read in Parliament and brief reactions from the assembled crowd outside.