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Remote Australia is a vast and complex area. To create opportunity, foster social inclusion and drive economic development in this region, you need a comprehensive knowledge base to drive change.
Remote Australia Online is exactly that. It’s an online platform that delivers authoritative research on topics that impact this region and its people, including education and its pathways, policy, business, social and cultural welfare, infrastructure, communication and natural resource management.
Remote Australia Online is for those who want to delve deeper into the complexities of remote Australia: its intricate and interconnected networks, the geographical, social, cultural and environmental influences, its opportunities, challenges, and to understand just what makes this unique region tick.
Protocol for the Yapatjarrathati project: a mixed-method implementation trial of a tiered assessment process for identifying fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in a remote Australian community
- Authors: Shanley, Dianne C., Hawkins, Erinn, Page, Marjad, Shelton, Doug, Liu, Wei, Webster, Heidi, Moritz, Karen M., Barry, Linda, Ziviani, Jenny, Morrissey, Shirley, O’Callaghan, Frances, Wood, Andrew, Katsikitis, Mary, Reid, Natasha
- Published: 2019
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a highly prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure. Early identification can improve functioning for individuals and reduce costs to society. Gold standard…
Barriers and opportunities to clinical placements in regional, rural and remote settings
- Author: Eklom, Bonnie
- Published: 2019
Rural and remote Australia continues to experience worse health outcomes and poorer access to health services compared to inner metropolitan Australia. Geographic maldistribution of the health workforce is a significant…
Birth outcomes in women with gestational diabetes managed by lifestyle modification alone: The PANDORA Study
- Authors: Cheng, E., Longmore, D., Barzi, F., Barr, E. L. M., Lee, I., Whitbread, C., Boyle, J. A., Oats, J., Connors, C., McIntyre, H. D., Kirkwood, M., Dempsey, K., Zhang, X., Thomas, S., Williams, D., Zimmet, P., Brown, A. D. H., Shaw, J. E., Maple-Brown, L.
- Published: 2019
Aims To assess outcomes of women in the Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) cohort with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) managed by lifestyle modification compared with women…
'Four boys Nga-Lerebina Ngana': Oracy and translanguaging in English and Ndjebbana
- Authors: O'Mara, Joanna, Auld, Glenn, Djabibba, Lena
- Published: 2019
In this paper we take on Green's (2017) orientation of the Australian Curriculum: English and consider what might it hold for the students of Australia. We set about analysing eighteen…
Compulsory income management: Combatting or compounding the underlying causes of homelessness?
- Authors: Peterie, Michelle, Bielefeld, Shelley, Marston, Greg, Mendes, Philip, Humpage, Louise
- Published: 2019
Compulsory Income Management (CIM) is a form of conditional welfare that involves the mandatory quarantining of a portion of welfare recipients’ social security payments. Quarantined funds are accessible via a…
Rural radio and the everyday politics of settlement on Indigenous land
- Authors: Waller, Lisa, Mesikämmen, Emma, Burkett, Brian
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Published: 2019
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Country Hour radio programmes are produced regionally and promote specific understandings of rurality. This article presents an analysis that shows Indigenous people and issues are rarely…
Talking skin: attitudes and practices around skin infections, treatment options, and their clinical management in a remote region in Western Australia
- Authors: Amgarth-Duff, Ingrid, Hendrickx, David, Bowen, Asha, Carapetis, Jonathan, Chibawe, Robby, Samson, Margaret, Walker, Roz
- Published: 2019
INTRODUCTION:Skin infections including scabies and impetigo have a high burden and cause significant morbidity in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. Nevertheless, there is limited knowledge about community, healthcare practitioner and…
Costs and effects of higher turnover of nurses and Aboriginal health practitioners and higher use of short-term nurses in remote Australian primary care services: an observational cohort study
- Authors: Zhao, Yuejen, Russell, Deborah Jane, Guthridge, Steven, Ramjan, Mark, Jones, Michael P, Humphreys, John S, Wakerman, John
- Published: 2019
Objectives To compare the costs and effects of higher turnover of resident nurses and Aboriginal health practitioners and higher use of agency-employed nurses in remote primary care (PC) services and…
Forming a humanitarian brand: Childhood and affect in Central Australia
- Author: Anderson, Drew
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Published: 2019
This chapter draws upon ethnographic research with an international NGO working with Indigenous communities in the central desert of Australia. International NGOs have often relied upon the commodification of children…
Rethinking evaluation for improved health outcomes: Implications for remote Australia
- Authors: Carey, Timothy A., Fauth, James M., Tremblay, George C.
- Published: 2019
Despite enduring and unacceptable disparities in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians as well as people living in rural and remote locations, evidence indicates that health services…
What counts? The influence of school attendance on Australia’s urban Indigenous students’ educational achievement
- Authors: Baxter, Lindy P., Meyers, Noel M.
- Published: 2019
Formal primary and secondary school education for all students should provide a pathway to overcome inequality and disadvantage. Logically, attending school regularly and often during the compulsory years of school…
The picture talk project: Aboriginal community input on consent for research
- Authors: Fitzpatrick, Emily FM, Macdonald, Gaynor, Martiniuk, Alexandra LC, Oscar, June, D’Antoine, Heather, Carter, Maureen, Lawford, Tom, Elliott, Elizabeth J
- Published: 2019
Background: The consent and community engagement process for research with Indigenous communities is rarely evaluated. Research protocols are not always collaborative, inclusive or culturally respectful. If participants do not trust…
Rural paramedics’ capacity for utilising a salutogenic approach to healthcare delivery: a literature review
- Authors: Cockrell, Krista Renee, Reed, Buck, Wilson, Leigh
- Published: 2019
Introduction Australia has had a long-standing challenge in meeting rural and remote healthcare needs. Recently, new expanded paramedic roles have proven successful in addressing healthcare gaps, however, further research is…
Qualitative perspectives on the sustainability of sexual health continuous quality improvement in clinics serving remote Aboriginal communities in Australia
- Authors: Gunaratnam, Praveena, Schierhout, Gill, Brands, Jenny, Maher, Lisa, Bailie, Ross, Ward, James, Guy, Rebecca, Rumbold, Alice, Ryder, Nathan, Fairley, Christopher K, Donovan, Basil, Moore, Liz, Kaldor, John, Bell, Stephen
- Published: 2019
Objectives To examine barriers and facilitators to sustaining a sexual health continuous quality improvement (CQI) programme in clinics serving remote Aboriginal communities in Australia.Design Qualitative study.Setting Primary health care services…
Australian Indigenous Art Innovation and Culturepreneurship in Practice: Insights for Cultural Tourism
- Author: Loaney, Denis R.
- Published: 2019
Indigenous cultural tourism offers significant future opportunities for countries, cities and Indigenous communities, but the development of new offerings can be problematic. Addressing this challenge, this article examines contemporary Australian…
TeaH (Turn ‘em around Healing): a therapeutic model for working with traumatised children on Aboriginal communities
- Authors: Moss, Michelle, Lee, Anthony Duwun
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Published: 2019
Aboriginal children in Australia are over-represented in both the child protection and juvenile justice systems. Using Western therapeutic models of practice with Aboriginal people who live in remote communities can…
Breast screening attendance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the Northern Territory of Australia
- Authors: Tapia, Kriscia A., Garvey, Gail, McEntee, Mark F., Rickard, Mary, Lydiard, Lorraine, Brennan, Patrick C.
- Published: 2019
Objective: To compare breast screening attendances of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. Methods: A total of 4,093 BreastScreen cases were used including 857 self-identified Indigenous women. Chi-squared analysis compared data between…
Economic hybridity in remote Indigenous Australia as development alterity
- Author: Curchin, Katherine
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Published: 2019
(Abstract for book) Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas…
Factors affecting the development of school and Indigenous community engagement: A systematic review
- Authors: Lowe, Kevin, Harrison, Neil, Tennent, Christine, Guenther, John, Vass, Greg, Moodie, Nikki
- Published: 2019
School systems and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have long acknowledged the levels of social, cultural and epistemic conflict that has historically existed between teachers and schools, and Aboriginal students,…
Through the eyes of students: the satisfaction of remote Indigenous boarding students’ with a transition support service in Queensland, Australia
- Authors: Redman-MacLaren, Michelle, Benveniste, Tessa, McCalman, Janya, Rutherford, Katrina, Britton, Amelia, Langham, Erika, Stewart, Richard, Saunders, Pat, Kinchin, Irina, Bainbridge, Roxanne
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Published: 2019
More than 4000 Indigenous Australian students enrol and take up a placement at boarding school each year. While reasons for attending boarding school vary, the impetus for many remote and…