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New Research

Framework for measuring wellbeing: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 2010

05 March 2010This publication describes a framework to map statistical information about Indigenous people, in the context of the interrelationships with their social and physical environments.
A stronger, fairer Australia

A stronger, fairer Australia

19 February 2010Launched on 28 January 2010, A Stronger, Fairer Australia sets out the Australian Government’s vision and strategy for social inclusion, now and into the future.

Indigenous sentencing courts

15 February 2010This brief focuses on Indigenous sentencing courts, which operate in all Australian states and territories except Tasmania.

Social justice report 2009

08 February 2010  The Social Justice Report 2009 focusses on three themes: justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system; the protection of Indigenous languages; and sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities.

The impact of racism upon the health and wellbeing of young Australians 2009

01 February 2010This report explores the attitudes of Australian youth in relation to key issues in contemporary race relations, such as cultural diversity, tolerance and privilege.
The promise of comprehensive native title settlements: The Burrup, MG-Ord and Wimmera agreements

The promise of comprehensive native title settlements: The Burrup, MG-Ord and Wimmera agreements

01 February 2010Based on firsthand accounts of the role of comprehensive settlements in progressing Indigenous and government aspirations for native title, this paper also identifies possible benchmarks for such settlements.
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Culture

Knowledge foundations for the development of sustainable wildlife enterprises in remote Indigenous communities of Australia

15 March 2010This paper addresses issues of complementarity and conflict across Indigenous ecological knowledge and western science.

The future of outstations/homelands

15 March 2010This report records the broad commentary from a workshop about Aboriginal homelands or outstations held at the ANU in October 2009.

Indigenous cultural and natural resource management and the emerging role of the Working on Country program

05 March 2010This paper explores government support for Indigenous land and sea management in the context of the current environment agenda.

Indigenous policy

Child mortality target: analysis and recommendations

15 March 2010Indigenous children aged 0-4 years die at 3 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. This analysis provides direction to achieve the Government’s commitment to halve the gap in mortality rates for Indigenous children by 2018.

From crisis to crime: the escalation of civil and family law issues to criminal matters in Aboriginal communities in NSW

10 March 2010The issue of appropriate legal and social supports is critical to the question of Indigenous overrepresentation in the criminal justice system. This article discusses this relationship, arguing that the overwhelming emphasis on communities' criminal law needs distracts from other equally important, though perhaps less urgent, practical concerns.

Commentary

Silence

27 February 2010In this essay, first published in The Age, Maria Turmarkin explores what being silent or saying something actually means.

Reconciliation must come with the republic

14 January 2010We need to base our future on a recognition of indigenous as well as British heritage, says Noel Pearson at the Sydney Festival

The next step: a reparations tribunal

13 November 2009For most members of the Stolen Generations, pursuing a civil claim through the courts is technically impossible or simply too painful, writes Robin Banks
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Audio

Three areas of human rights

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05 March 2010Disability and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, looks at three areas of human rights in which the involvement of the Australian Human Rights Commission has played a part in changing the human rights landscape

Departing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma reminisces on his term

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08 February 2010Tom Calma has been the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner with the commission for more than five years. 

Indigenous health

Linking census records to death registrations, Mar 2010

15 March 2010This paper builds on other papers already released about the Indigenous Mortality Quality Study, by elaborating on the probabilistic data linking methodology used to link the Census and death records.

Video

Bess Nungarrayi Price on the NT Intervention

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15 February 2010Bess Nungarrayi Price, a Walpiri woman from Yuendemu in the N.T. discusses the issues facing her community and explains why she thinks policies such as enforced income management are needed and welcome.

John Pilger attacks the Australian Government

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26 November 2009As conflicts rage around the globe, Pilger argues that in Australia we have largely remained silent on injustices in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Aboriginal communities and refugees.

Housing

Closing the gap: Prime Minister's report 2010

Closing the gap: Prime Minister's report 2010

12 February 2010This is the second report of the federal government's Closing the Gap program to deal with Indigenous disadvantage.

Websites

Bringing Them Home

19 February 2010This website features oral history interviews with people who were involved in or affected by the removal of Indigenous children from their families.

Indigenous portal

21 September 2009The Indigenous portal provides up to date information on programs and services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Social Inclusion

21 May 2009This Australian Government site brings together resources from a range of departments covering the issue of social inclusion.

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Framework for measuring wellbeing: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 2010
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Demography as destiny: Schooling, work and Aboriginal population change at Wadeye
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From crisis to crime: the escalation of civil and family law issues to criminal matters in Aboriginal communities in NSW
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Report on government services 2010
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Garma Festival 2009 key forum address

Jobs

Events

Seminar
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change - Australian book launch, talk, Q&A
24 Mar 2010
Sydney
Conference
Indigenous Land Management with Economic Development
24 Mar 2010 - 9:00am - 25 Mar 2010 - 5:30am
Darwin
Conference
ACOSS National Conference 2010: A vote for equity
25 Mar 2010 - 9:00am - 26 Mar 2010 - 5:00pm
Canberra

Books

Racial Folly: A twentieth-century Aboriginal family

Racial Folly: A twentieth-century Aboriginal family

  • Gordon Briscoe
  • ANU E Press
A memoir and history of an Aboriginal family living under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century.
Compelling cultures: representing cultural diversity and cohesion in multicultural Australia

Compelling cultures: representing cultural diversity and cohesion in multicultural Australia

  • Kylie Message, Anna Edmundson and Ursula Frederic
  • ANU E Press
Humanities Research Vol XV. No. 2

Noticeboard

National Human Rights Online Consultation
27 May 2009

The National Human Rights Online Consultation on Open Forum will run from 19 May until 26 June 2009, providing an extended opportunity for the Australian community to share their views about which rights and responsibilities matter to us as a society,

Policy Guides

Indigenous Art and the Law

The project provides a literature review and critically examines existing laws and investigates options for urgently-required developments in the area of arts law as it pertains to Indigenous people and culture.

18-11-09

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