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Talk, text and technology: Literacy and social practice in a remote Indigenous community

• Author(s): Kral, I
• Published: 2012
• Publisher: Multiligual Matters

Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This study traces one Indigenous group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy in the 1930s to the recent arrival of digital literacies and new media. This innovative work examines changing social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and…

A History of Aboriginal Futures

• Author(s): Ginsburg, Faye, Myers, Fred
• Published: 2006
• Publisher: DKCRC

This article addresses the paradox of the persistence, growth, and increasing circulation of work in indigenous media and acrylic painting in Aboriginal Australia, despite the alarming political turn against gains made by indigenous Australians over the last decade, not only by right-wing politicians but intellectuals as well. Indigenous people in settler nation-states have faced a…

Indigenous child health: urgent need for improved data to underpin better health outcomes

• Author(s): Fremantle, E, Zurynski, YA, Mahajan, D, D’Antoine, H, Elliott, EJ
• Published: 2008
• Publisher: DKCRC

Accurate data about Indigenous child health is vital to enable us to understand its current state, to acknowledge achievements, and to determine how to reduce inequalities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. We have identified a paucity of national, or nationally representative, data relating to Indigenous child health outcomes, and significant deficiencies in available data. A…

Hospitalisation for head injury due to assault among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, July 1999 – June 2005

• Author(s): Jamieson, LM, Harrison, JE, Berry, JG
• Published: 2008
• Publisher: DKCRC

Objective: To describe rates of hospitalisation for head injury due to assault among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Design, setting and participants: Secondary analysis of routinely collected hospital morbidity data for 42 874 inpatients at public and private hospitals in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory for the 6-year period 1 July 1999…

‘Hearing the country’: Reflexivity as an intimate journey into epistemological liminalities

• Author(s): Bradley, John
• Published: 2012
• Publisher: DKCRC

In this article I discuss the way Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and reflexivity is employed in a university environment to address the question of how we can most successfully transfer knowledge about the presumed Other into our own cultural space without reducing, fragmenting, and exoticising complex knowledge systems. My goal is to stimulate in students an…

Indigenous Knowledges in Education: Complexities, Dangers, and Profound Benefits

• Author(s): Kincheloe, Joe L, Steinberg, Shirley R
• Published: 2008
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Indigenous Knowledges in Education: Complexities, Dangers, and Profound Benefits

Climate change adaptation, energy futures and carbon economies in remote Australia: a review of the current literature, research and policy.

• Author(s): Maru, YT., Chewings, V., Sparrow, A.
• Published: 2012
• Publisher: Ninti One Limited

This report is a review of current literature and research on climate change projections, impact, vulnerability, adaptation, energy futures and carbon economies in remote Australia. It is intended to inform research frameworks and directions for the research project Climate Change Adaptation, Energy Futures and Carbon Economies in Remote Australia within the Cooperative Research Centre for…

Framing vulnerability and adaptive capacity assessment: Discussion paper.

• Author(s): Preston, B. L., Stafford Smith, D. Mark
• Published: 2009
• Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC

The purpose of this discussion paper is to briefly highlight various perspectives regarding key concepts associated with climate change vulnerability and adaptation, as well as some of the commonly used methodologies and frameworks for assessing vulnerability, adaptive capacity and risk. It was first written in March 2008 as part of a project by the CSIRO…

Indigenous Family Violence (IFVP): The Cross Borders experience

• Author(s): Pearce, G, Wright, G
• Published: 2007
• Publisher: DKCRC

This project focuses upon the Pitjantjatjara-, Yankunytjatjara-, and Ngaanyatjarra-speaking communities in Central Australia, located in the region known as the NPY Lands. This target group forms a large part of the cross border region of South Australia, Northern Territory and Western Australia as defined by the Justice Departments in the three contributing jurisdictions in the…

Evaluation of the National Trachoma Health Promotion Programme: Report for Indigenous Eye Health University of Melbourne

• Author(s): Ninti One Limited,
• Published: 2017
• Publisher: Ninti One Limited

Evaluation of the National Trachoma Health Promotion Programme: Report for Indigenous Eye Health University of Melbourne