Aboriginal Studies Resources

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News, Reviews & Views


Reports

Native Title Report 2008

Australian Human Rights Commission  May 28, 2009

Social Justice Report 2008


Australian Human Rights Commission  May 28, 2009

CMKb: a web-based prototype for integrating Australian Aboriginal customary  medicinal plant knowledge

Jitendra Gaikwad et al  BioMed Central   March 18, 2009

Solid ground: Infrastructure and key organisations review

Fieldworx / Australia Council    January 22, 2009

Progress of the Northern Territory Emergency Response child health check initiative: preliminary results from the child health check and follow-up data collections


Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Department of Health and Ageing               January 19 2009

Analysis of the representation of Indigenous Australians in mainstream print media: An exploration centred on the social determinants of health

Jessica Roberts / Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health    January 19, 2009

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance framework 2008 report: detailed analyses

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare    January 19, 2009

Why the Northern Territory Government needs to support Outstations/Homelands in the Aboriginal, Northern Territory and national interest

Jon Altman, Seán Kerins, Bill Fogarty and Kate Webb / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research    December 23, 2008

Unfinished business

Stolen Generations Victoria    December 17, 2008

Indigenous languages programs in Australian schools: a way forward

Australian Council for Educational Research / Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations    December 9, 2008




Reviews

Surviving institutional abuse: Andrena Jamieson reviews Bill Simon's Back on the Block

Eureka Street,
Vol 19 No 10 - June 5, 2009

Chronicler of a disaster foretold:  Marcia Langton
reviews Hinkson & Beckett's An Appreciation of Difference

The Australian -
March 4, 2009

The Good Soldier: WEH Stanner and "An Appreciation of Difference":  Inga Clendinnen
reviews Hinkson & Beckett's An Appreciation of Difference

The Monthly -
April 2009

Bureaucracy's bleeding northern heart:
Ian Anderson reviews Tess Lea’s Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts

Inside Story - January 20, 2009

From Mouth to Page: Catherine Murphy reviews Doreen Kartinyeri and Sue Anderson's Doreen Kartinyeri: My Ngarrindjeri Calling

Bulletin of the International Oral History Association  January 2009

Sharing of wisdom under the Boab tree:
Chris Laming reviews Brian McCoy's Holding Men

Eureka Street - November 7, 2008

A Winner in More Ways Than One: Elizabeth Emanuel reviews Gayle Kennedy's Me, Antman & Fleabag

M/C Reviews - January 8, 2008

Indigenous Health: Reaching beyond rhetoric: Charles Guest
reviews Social Determinants of Indigenous Health

eMJA - November 2007

Carpentaria: Alison Ravescroft reviews Alexis Wright's Carpentaria

The Age - August 19, 2006

Views

Indigenous study needs magic bullet - Chris Sarra - The Australian, February 26, 2009

Our Schooling Shame - Mick Dodson - The Age, February 19, 2009

The Shattered Silence - Sylvia Lawson - Inside Story, January 6, 2009

Aborigines have for too long been portrayed as victims - Marcia Langton - The Guardian, December 23, 2008


Faraway Downs fantasy resonates close to home - Marcia Langton - The Age, November 23, 2008

Greer maintains rage of racists - Marcia Langton - On Line Opinon, August 23, 2008


After the Apology - Patrick Dodson - National Press Club Address February 2008

Trapped in the Aboriginal Reality Show - Marcia Langton - Griffith Review 19: Re-imagining Australia

White Guilt, Victimhood & the Quest for a Radical Centre - Noel Pearson - Griffith Review 16: Unintended Consequences

2007 Charles Perkins Lecture - Marion Scrymgour

Indifference has robbed generations of our history - Louis Nowra - December 27, 2008