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ʹMutual obligationʹ, the CDEP scheme, and development prospects in remote Australia

  • Author(s): Altman, Jon
  • Published: 2004
  • Publisher: ANU Press

Many observers feel that current social policy, and particularly the payment of welfare to the unemployed, needs to be fundamentally rethought. It is notable that advocates of change include both the government-appointed McClure Committee and influential Indigenous spokespersons, most notably Noel Pearson. In their publications Participation Support for a More Equitable Society (McClure 2000) and…

10-Valent pneumococcal non-typeable H. influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV10) versus 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) as a booster dose to broaden and strengthen protection from otitis media (PREVIX_BOOST) in Australian Aboriginal children: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

  • Author(s): Oguoma, Victor M., Wilson, Nicole, Mulholland, Kim, Santosham, Mathuram, Torzillo, Paul, McIntyre, Peter, Smith-Vaughan, Heidi, Balloch, Anne, Chatfield, Mark, Lehmann, Deborah, Binks, Michael J., Chang, Anne, Carapetis, Jonathan, Krause, Vicki, Andrews, Ross, Snelling, Tom, Licciardi, Paul, Morris, Peter, Leach, Amanda Jane
  • Published: 2020
  • Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group

INTRODUCTION: Streptococcus pneumoniae and non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) are major otitis media pathogens that densely co-colonise the nasopharynx and infect the middle ear of Australian Aboriginal infants from very early in life. Our co-primary hypotheses are that at 18 months of age infants receiving 10-valent pneumococcal Haemophilus influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV10) compared with…

100 Years On, Melancholic Sovereignty

  • Author(s): Povinelli, Elizabeth
  • Published: 2011
  • Publisher: Charles Darwin University The Northern Institute

Drawing on critical theory and her own ethnographic work with Indigenous people in the NT to discuss why the ideology of sovereignty continues to grip the social imagination long after the inroads of the state in the era of neoliberal globalization

1365-P: Type 2 Diabetes after Gestational Diabetes, a High-Risk Population

  • Author(s): Wood, Anna, Boyle, Jacqueline, Barzi, Federica, Barr, Elizabeth L., Hare, Matthew J. I., Titmuss, Angela, Death, Elizabeth, Kirkwood, Marie, Simmonds, Alison, Moore, Elizabeth M., Oats, Jeremy, McIntyre, David, Zimmet, Paul Z., Brown, Alex D., Shaw, Jonathan E., Maple-Brown, Louise J.
  • Published: 2020

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have high rates of gestational diabetes (GDM). The Pregnancy And Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) study is a prospective longitudinal cohort of women with type 2 diabetes (T2D), GDM or normoglycemia in pregnancy in the Northern Territory, Australia. In this analysis we report progression to prediabetes and…

17 ways that ‘community talk’ misguides research

  • Author(s): Guerin, B, Guerin, P
  • Published: 2007
  • Publisher: Muddycreek Press

17 ways that ‘community talk’ misguides research

2010 Indigenous Expenditure Report

  • Author(s): Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision,
  • Published: 2010
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission

This Indigenous Expenditure Report is the first in a series. It provides estimates of government expenditure on services related to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. These estimates are one element of the evidence base that policy makers need to gain a clearer picture of the impact of government expenditure on Indigenous Australians. Estimating the Indigenous component…

2012 Indigenous Expenditure Report

  • Author(s): Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision,
  • Published: 2012
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission

The 2012 Indigenous Expenditure Report is the second in a series, prepared by the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision under the auspice of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). It provides estimates of expenditure on services provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by the Australian Government, and State and…

2014 Indigenous Expenditure Report

  • Author(s): Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision,
  • Published: 2014
  • Publisher: Productivity Commission

The 2014 Indigenous Expenditure Report is the third in a series of biennial reports first commissioned by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in December 2007. The Report presents estimates of expenditure by all governments on both Indigenous specific and mainstream services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. The estimates are broadly aligned to…

2014 Jobs Profiles: Ali Curung

  • Author(s): Northern Territory Government,
  • Published: 2014
  • Publisher: Dept. of Business, NT

This profile is intended to be used as an evidence base to inform decision making relating to workforce development and enterprise opportunity in this town. This is the second production and publication of the jobs profiles, the first was provided in 2011 to support the implementation of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery….

2014 Jobs Profiles: Angurugu

  • Author(s): Northern Territory Government,
  • Published: 2014
  • Publisher: Dept. of Business, NT

This profile is intended to be used as an evidence base to inform decision making relating to workforce development and enterprise opportunity in this town. This is the second production and publication of the jobs profiles, the first was provided in 2011 to support the implementation of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery….