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Tourism on the periphery - developing a viable tourism industry in Cooktown
- Authors: Prideaux, B, Thompson, M.
- Published: 2018
Remote settlements face many challenges in striving to achieve a sustainable local economy. The aim of this paper is to identify key barriers that many remote communities face in adopting…
Building relationships towards sustainable economic development in the Fitzroy River catchment
- Author: Greg Mackay
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2017
Development is not a new word for the Fitzroy Catchment in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. However, it is currently the focus of an enormous level of interest and…
“Locked out” and “left behind”: Aboriginal Adult English Literacy and Numeracy in Northern Territory – a call for collective action
- Authors: Allison Stewart, Lorraine Sushames, Fiona Shalley
- Publisher: Australian Council for Adult Literacy
- Published: 2017
Northern Territory (NT) government policy acknowledges the “need for active participation by all people, including Indigenous people, for the north to achieve ongoing prosperity.” However the majority of Aboriginal adults…
Tech tools for improving productivity, profit and pasture in the pastoral rangelands
- Authors: Murray Grey, Tim Driver
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2017
In the last 20 years there has been a huge surge in development of technological tools to improve the business of producing protein in Australia. While in the early stages…
Drought: rain...cash...population...resilience
- Authors: Dana Kelly, David Phelps, Jenny Coombes
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2017
Towns in central western Queensland are especially exposed to the risks of drought, with approximately half of the businesses directly linked to agriculture. This paper reports on surveys undertaken in…
Social return on investment in the rangelands: We think what we are doing is important, but does anybody else care?
- Authors: Leah Feuerherdt, Stuart Peevor, Michael Clinch, Tim Moore
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2017
Social Return on Investment (SROI) is an internationally recognised methodology used to measure and value the impact of programs. Like a traditional cost-benefit analysis, SROI examines economic outcomes, but also…
Using FarmMaps 4D to improve management of Indigenous pastoral infrastructure
- Authors: Joel Dillon, Peter Cunningham
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2017
The Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to acquire and manage land to achieve economic, environmental, social, and cultural benefits. To support this the ILC…
Buffel grass management in Indigenous communities
- Author: Bowman, T
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2017
Buffel grass has been recognised as one of the greatest threats to biodiversity in South Australia’s arid and semi-arid rangelands. It has the capacity to transform ecosystems through habitat loss,…
Simulated impacts of wet season spelling and intensive rotational grazing on pasture condition in a degraded northern Mitchell grass savanna
- Authors: Robyn Cowley, Dionne Walsh, Jane Douglas
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2017
The northern Australian pastoral industry is intensifying development and grazing systems to facilitate greater productivity and capital value. A three year field trial in the Barkly region of the Northern…
Indigenous foods benefiting indigenous Australians
- Authors: Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya, Vilkinas, Tricia, Wijesinghe, Gayathri, Akbar, Skye, Gifford, Stuart
- Published: 2016
In Australia, a (re)emerging and hot trend is featuring native foods in restaurants, food tours and culinary arts. Based on the conceptual analysis for research undertaken for a pilot project…
Parent perspectives of boarding: Insights from remote Aboriginal families
- Authors: Benveniste, Tessa, Dawson, Drew, Guenther, John, Rainbird, Sophia, King, Lorraine
- Published: 2016
Increasingly, remote Aboriginal families are being encouraged to transition their children into boarding environments to complete secondary schooling. This comes largely from recent policy recommendations and implementation of a strategic…
Identifying strategies for promoting VET to higher education transitions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners
- Authors: Smith, James, Pechenkina, Katya (Ekaterina), Gunstone, Andrew, Frawley, Jack
- Published: 2016
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in Higher Education (HE) is significantly lower than non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rates (Behrendt et al. 2012). National data indicates that Aboriginal and…
Understanding the aspirations of remote Aboriginal communities to pursue further education: The benefits of collaborative research
- Authors: Smith, James, Fisher, Simon, Langdon, Jimmy, Katakrinja, Elizabeth, Shannon, Valda, Shannon, Geoffrey, Yibarbuk, Dean, Olcay, Millie, Boton, Eliani, Stewart, Allison, Moore, Terry, Larkin, Steven
- Published: 2016
It is well documented that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are under-represented in Australian universities. This was highlighted in the Behrendt Review (2012) with a range of social, cultural,…
Pedagogical issues in designing a social and emotional learning program for Australian Indigenous youth in remote communities
- Authors: Harper, Helen, Robinson, Gary, Franck, Linel, Gore, Cecelia
- Published: 2016
Skills for Life' is a strengths-based social and emotional learning program that aims to promote resilience, coping and problem-solving skills for Indigenous youth in remote communities. It has a focus…
A theory of enhancement of professional learning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pre-service teachers in very remote communities through mobile learning
- Author: Townsend, P
- Publisher: University of Technology Sydney
- Published: 2016
A theory of enhancement of professional learning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pre-service teachers in very remote communities through mobile learning
What do we know about remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community engagement?: Implications for research and strategy development in tertiary education settings
- Authors: Smith, James, Larkin, Steven, Yibarbuk, Dean, Olcay, Millie, Guenther, John
- Published: 2016
Genuine community engagement is heralded as an important process when engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in discussion about education. This has been repeatedly emphasised in numerous policy documents,…
Boarding schools for remote secondary Aboriginal learners in the Northern Territory: Smooth transition or rough ride?
- Authors: Guenther, J, Milgate, G, Perrett, B, Benveniste, T, Osborne, S, Disbray, S
- Published: 2016
Boarding schools for remote secondary Aboriginal learners in the Northern Territory: Smooth transition or rough ride?
Enhancing training advantage for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander learners
- Authors: Guenther, John, Wooltorton, Sandra, Bat, Melodie, Boughton, Bob, Skewes, Janet, Stephens, Anne
- Published: 2016
Participation in vocational training is strong among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from remote communities. However, despite the high level of participation, completion rates for courses are very low—on…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in business education: Barriers and strategies
- Authors: Dang, Thi Kim Anh, Vitartas, Peter, Ambrose, Kurt, Millar, Hayley
- Published: 2016
In the current Australian higher education context, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students continue to be significantly under-represented (Behrendt, Larkin, Griew & Kelly, 2012; Pechenkina, 2015). They are particularly and…
Becoming a teacher in Central Australia: Picturing resilience through arts-based research methods
- Authors: Beltman, Susan, Papatraianou, Lisa, Strangeways, Al
- Published: 2016
Enhancing resilience is recognised as key to addressing teacher attrition (Johnson et al., 2016) and addressing the challenges of the profession (Beltman et al. 2015; Papatraianou, 2012). However, two significant…