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Understanding the challenges of managers from non-Indigenous backgrounds working in remote Australia: A cultural competence perspective
- Author: Whittle, Michelle
- Publisher: Flinders University
- Published: 2013
This study explores the challenges non-Indigenous art centre managers face, from a cultural competence perspective, when they work in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Other cultural challenges were…
Dialoguing in the Desert for Sustainable Development: Ambivalence, Hybridity and Representations of Indigenous People
- Author: McGrath, Natalie
- Publisher: Murdoch University
- Published: 2007
will require dialogue. This thesis explores how institutional practice and discourse frames
What Makes an Aboriginal Council Successful? Case Studies of Aboriginal Community Government Performance in Far North Queensland
- Author: Limerick, Michael
- Publisher: Griffith University
- Published: 2009
Improving Aboriginal community governance is increasingly recognised as pivotal to closing the gap in social and economic outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. The past decade has seen a shift…
The failure of Australian legislation on indirect discrimination to detect the systemic racism which prevents Aboriginal people from fully participating in the workforce
- Author: de Plevitz, Loretta Ruth
- Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
- Published: 2000
unemployment rate for other Australians. This thesis aims to assess whether Australian indirect
The use and benefits of ebusiness to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art centres in 2014
- Author: Bendor, Iris
- Publisher: Southern Cross University
- Published: 2014
Islander art centres. This thesis identifies the knowledge gaps in the field of ebusiness in
Exploring engagement between Indigenous communities and government: lessons for Country management
- Author: Anderson-Smith, B
- Publisher: ANU
- Published: 2008
This thesis explores engagement between Indigenous communities and governments in the Australian
The augmented rural reality: how rural high school students’ decisions to pursue university study in digital media are ‘augmented’ by the role of life history and cultural capital.
- Author: Turner, Krystle
- Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
- Published: 2018
influences include family, community, school and digital media. The thesis draws on 25 interviews conducted
Models of leadership in remote Aboriginal schools in the Northern Territory
- Author: Nolen, Helen Maree
- Publisher: Northern Territory University
- Published: 1998
Aboriginalisation or localisation of leadership in schools in remote areas of the Northern Territory is becoming more widespread in this last decade of the second millennium. Emerging models or ways…
Retention of allied health professionals in rural and remote areas of South Australia
- Author: Barney, Tania
- Publisher: University of South Australia
- Published: 1998
Around one third of all Australians live in rural and remote areas. People living in rural and remote areas tend to experience poorer health status than their metropolitan counterparts. Differences…
Power, policy and remote citizen activism: a case study of the Lake Eyre Basin Wild Rivers policy
- Author: Capel, Christene Susanne
- Publisher: Monash University
- Published: 2015
This PhD research examines what influence women and men in Central Western Queensland (CWQ) have on natural resource management policy that significantly impacts on their lives and livelihoods. It uses…
Overseas trained doctors in rural and remote Australia: do they practise differently from Australian trained doctors?
- Author: Laurence, Caroline Olivia May
- Publisher: University of Adelaide
- Published: 2007
Over the last seven years the recruitment of overseas trained doctors (OTDs) has formed a significant part of Australia’s policy to address the medical workforce issue of geographic maldistribution to…
Motor performance, prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Aboriginal children in remote Australia
- Author: Lucas, Barbara
- Publisher: University of Sydney
- Published: 2016
to the context of this Thesis and a literature review of the existing evidence. The current Thesis
Education of rural and remote general practitioners (GPs) in Australia on type 2 diabetes: impact of online continuing medical education on GPs’ knowledge, attitudes and practices and barriers to online learning
- Author: Thepwongsa, Isaraporn
- Publisher: Monash University
- Published: 2014
Background: The gap between current and evidence-based management of type 2 diabetes is widely acknowledged in Australia. Therefore, there is a need to find effective strategies to encourage GP awareness…
Art at auction: Price formation and the creation of superstars in the Australian art auction market
- Author: Wilson-Anastasios, Meaghan
- Publisher: University of Melbourne
- Published: 2008
This thesis shows that prices generated by the art auction system can be anything but mysterious
Processes for effective management: learning from agencies and Warlpiri people involved in managing the Northern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area, Australia
- Author: Walker, J
- Publisher: Charles Darwin University
- Published: 2011
Over the past three decades, protected area management has moved away from a strict preservation to a more socially orientated management ethos. This change is based on ideals such as…
Living FIFO: The Experiences and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Western Australian Fly-in/fly-out Employees and Partners
- Author: Sibbel, Anne M.
- Publisher: Edith Cowan University
- Published: 2010
Using a concurrent multi-methods design employing both quantitative and qualitative methodologies this study investigated the psychosocial wellbeing Western Australian fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) mining employees and their partners. The quantitative phase of…
Living FIFO: The Experiences and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Western Australian Fly-in/fly-out Employees and Partners
- Author: Sibbel, A.
- Publisher: Edith Cowan University
- Published: 2010
Using a concurrent multi-methods design employing both quantitative and qualitative methodologies this study investigated the psychosocial wellbeing Western Australian fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) mining employees and their partners. The quantitative phase of…
Sustainability of Remote Aboriginal Art Centres in Australian Desert Communities
- Author: Petersen, Kim
- Publisher: Curtin University
- Published: 2015
This thesis investigates and analyses the functions and business practices that underpin the
The dreams of mobile young Aboriginal Australian people
- Author: Parkes, Amy
- Publisher: University of South Australia
- Published: 2013
Despite growing interest in mobility patterns and quantification, little is known about the lived experiences of mobile young Aboriginal Australian people. Mobility research to date has focused primarily on remote…
A theory of the viewer experience of interactive television
- Author: McGinley, Maurice
- Publisher: Murdoch University
- Published: 2009
practitioners. In response to this call, this thesis develops an integrative theory of the user experience of