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Garde, Murray. "Social deixis in Bininj Kun-wok conservation /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17551.pdf.
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Larkin, Christine M. A., and N/A. "Social work and racism : a case study in ACT Health." University of Canberra. Education, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060815.160708.
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A Feminist Action Research methodology was used as a
collaborative process with five ACT Health social workers
based at the Community Health Centres and four at the
Woden Valley Hospital. The primary purpose of the study
was to investigate, both through critical reflection and
action in their work setting, the participants' relevance
or otherwise to Aboriginal people in the ACT and region.
Behind this is the question of how encapsulated social
work is by racism. The impetus for the study arose from
my unresolved concerns regarding these issues, having
been a social worker in ACT Health for 6 years, to 1990.
Decisions on how to proceed involved a process of ongoing
consultation between the participant social workers and
myself. Exploratory meetings were held in March and
April, with an ongoing program being held 2-3 weekly from
June to September, followed by a review in December. Most
gatherings were specific to the Woden Valley Hospital or
Community Health settings. However two half-day workshops
were held for all the participants. All the sessions from
June were taped. Aboriginal leaders were consulted, as
were several managers in ACT Health.
The phenomena of institutional, cultural and personal
racism were addressed by the social workers through
discussion, exercises, and anti-racist initiatives in
their work setting. They found that significant time
restraints presented an example of institutional racism
working against their good intentions. Another dimension
arose from implicitly racist education in social work
courses when most of the participants undertook their
undergraduate courses in the 1960s and 1970s. Aspects
related to professionalism such as its language and
separation of a personal and professional self were
indicative of cultural racism. Stories of personal racism
were shared, in the context of raised awareness leading
to changing those attitudes and behaviours.
The fact that the study took place in 1993 - a watershed
year for Aboriginal/white relations in Australia - seemed
to lead to greater momentum for the project. The social
workers found that participation in this study increased
their knowledge of, and their confidence - both actual
and potential - in interaction with Aboriginal people.
However, they also understood these to be just small
steps towards greater justice for the indigenous people.
An outcome of the project has been involving some
colleagues in similar anti-racist actions to those the
social workers participated in during the time of the
study. The action research project has continued on in
different ways, beyond 1993, despite my withdrawal as
'the researcher' who took the initiative.
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Brock, Stephen. "A travelling colonial architecture Home and nation in selected works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon /." Click here for electronic access: http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150, 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150.
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A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy - Flinders University of South Australia, Faculty of Education Humanities, Law and Theology, June 2003.Title from electronic thesis (viewed 27/7/10)
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Jenkins, Stephen. "Australia's Commonwealth Self-determination Policy 1972-1998 : the imagined nation and the continuing control of indigenous existence /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phj522.pdf.
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Orr, Jardine Andrea Frieda. "Remote indigenous housing system : a systems social assessment /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051103.134917.
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School, of Native Human Services Laurentian University. ""Articulating Aboriginal Paradigms: Implications for Aboriginal Social Work Practice"." School of Native Human Services, 2003. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/401.
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Lapham, Angela. "From Papua to Western Australia : Middleton's implementation of Social Assimilation Policy, 1948-1962." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/270.
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In 1948, after twenty years in the Papuan administration, Stanley Middleton became the Western Australian Commissioner of Native Affairs. State and Federal governments at that time had a policy of social assimilation towards Aboriginal people, who were expected to live in the same manner as other Australians, accepting the same responsibilties, observing the same customs and influenced by the same beliefs, hopes and loyalties. European civilization was seen as the pinnacle of development. Thus both giving Aboriginal people the opportunity to reach this pinnacle and believing they were equally capable of reaching this pinnacle was viewed as a progessive and humanitarian act. Aboriginal cultural beliefs and loyalties were not considered important, if they were recognized at all, because they were seen as primitive or as having being abandoned in favour of a Western lifestyle.
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Goff, Jeremy C. "The Aboriginal outstation movement: reflections on empowerment." Thesis, Macquarie University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/267285.
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Aboriginal people in central and northern Australia for the past 20 years have
been moving away from Aboriginal towns and fringe camps to establish
outstations, or homelands centres: small, isolated communities of close kin and
family living on traditional lands. The outstation movement, as the
phenomenon has become known, is an attempt to preserve and revive the
cultural practices and institutions which give Aboriginal society a sense of
resilience. Outstations promote ~ltural identification, social cohesion and
community well-being. They are important means of arresting and reversing
the social and community crisis which Aboriginal people in the region have
been experiencing for more than 100 years, particularly in the last 40 years.
The outstation movement is a vehicle for Aboriginal empowerment. It is a,n
attempt to recapture control over life, land and society. It is one of the many
spontaneous expressions of Aboriginality in Australia today. Aboriginality is
an assertion of Aboriginal identity and worth.
v.Vhat is the significance of the outstation movement? Is it a form of political
action or separatism? Perhaps it is nothing more than a series of desperate
attempts by communities to escape a situation of extreme crisis. Or does it
constitute something more coordinated and meaningful? What are the goals of
outstation aspirants? Can such goals be achieved? Essentially, the outstation
movement is about Aboriginal people striving to take control of their own
lives. What is the nature of that empowerment?
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Gibson, Lorraine Douglas. "Articulating culture(s) being black in Wilcannia /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/70724.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, 2006.Bibliography: p. 257-276.
Introduction: coming to Wilcannia -- Wilcannia: plenty of Aborigines, but no culture -- Who you is? -- Cultural values: ambivalences and ambiguities -- Praise, success and opportunity -- "Art an' culture: the two main things, right?" -- Big Murray Butcher: "We still doin' it" -- Granny Moisey's baby: the art of Badger Bates -- Epilogue.
Dominant society discourses and images have long depicted the Aboriginal people of the town of Wilcannia in far Western New South Wales as having no 'culture'. In asking what this means and how this situation might have come about, the thesis seeks to respond through an ethnographic exploration of these discourses and images. The work explores problematic and polemic dominant society assumptions regarding 'culture' and 'Aboriginal culture', their synonyms and their effects. The work offers Aboriginal counter-discourses to the claim of most white locals and dominant culture that the Aboriginal people of Wilcannia have no culture. In so doing the work presents reflexive notions about 'culture' as verbalised and practiced, as well as providing an ethnography of how culture is more tacitly lived. -- Broadly, the thesis looks at what it is to be Aboriginal in Wilcannia from both white and black perspectives. The overarching concern of this thesis is a desire to unpack what it means to be black in Wilcannia. The thesis is primarily about the competing values and points of view within and between cultures, the ways in which Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people tacitly and reflexively express and interpret difference, and the ambivalence and ambiguity that come to bear in these interactions and experiences. This thesis demonstrates how ideas and actions pertaining to 'race' and 'culture' operate in tandem through an exploration of values and practices relating to 'work', 'productivity', 'success', 'opportunity' and the domain of 'art'. These themes are used as vehicles to understanding the 'on the ground' effects and affects of cultural perceptions and difference. They serve also to demonstrate the ambiguity and ambivalence that is experienced as well as being brought to bear upon relationships which implicitly and explicitly are concerned with, and concern themselves with difference.
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Walker, Roz, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Transformative strategies in indigenous education : a study of decolonisation and positive social change : the Indigenous Community Management Program, Curtin University." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_Walker_R.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/678.
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This thesis is located within the social and political context of Indigenous education within Australia. Indigenous people continue to experience unacceptable levels of disadvantage and social marginalisation. The struggle for indigenous students individually and collectively lies in being able to determine a direction which is productive and non-assimilationist – which offers possibilities of social and economic transformation, equal opportunities and cultural integrity and self-determination. The challenge for teachers within the constraints of the academy is to develop strategies that are genuinely transformative, empowering and contribute to decolonisation and positive social change. This thesis explores how the construction of two theoretical propositions – the Indigenous Community Management and Development (ICMD) practitioner and the Indigenous/non-Indigenous Interface – are decolonising and transformative strategies. It investigates how these theoretical constructs and associated discourses are incorporated into the Centre’s policy processes, curriculum and pedagogy to influence and interact with the everyday lives of students in their work and communities and the wider social institutions. It charts how a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff interact with these propositions and different ideas and discourses interrupting, re-visioning, reformulating and integrating these to form the basis for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous futures in Australia.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Shaw, Wendy Susan. "Ways of whitness : negotiating settlement agendas in (post) colonial inner Sydney /." Connect to thesis, 2001. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000242.
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Everett, Kristina Lyn. "Impossible realities the emergence of traditional Aboriginal cultural practices in Sydney's western suburbs /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/84406.
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"22nd November, 2006".Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Dept. of Anthropology, 2007.
Bibliography: leaves 301-330.
Introduction -- Between ourselves -- Two (or three) for the price of one -- Community -- Bits and pieces -- Space painting or painting space -- Talkin' the talk. Bunda bunya miumba (Thundering kangaroos): dancing up a storm -- Welcome to Country: talkin' the talk -- Messing with ceremony -- 'Ethnogenesis' and the emergence of 'darug custodians' -- Conclusion.
The thesis concerns an Aboriginal community, members of which inhabit the western suburbs of Sydney at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This particular group of people has emerged as a cultural group over the last twenty-five years. In other words, the community did not exist before the advent of Aboriginal land rights in Australia. It might be right to suggest that without land rights, native title and state celebrations and inclusions of Aboriginal peoples as multicufturalism, this particular urban community would not and could not exist at all. That, however, would be a simplistic analysis of a complex phenomenon. Land rights and native title provide the beginning of this story. It becomes much more interesting when the people concerned take it up themselves. -- The main foci in the thesis are the cultural forms that this particular community overtly and intentionally produce as articulations of their identity, namely public speaking, dancing, painting and ceremony. I argue that it is only through these yery deliberate collective practices of identity-making that community identity can be produced. This is because the place that the group claims as its own - Sydney - is always already inhabited by 'us' (the dominant society). Analysis of these cultural forms reveals that even if the existence of the group depends on land rights and, attempts to attract the ultimate 'authenticity' bestowed by native title, members of this group are not conforming to native title rules pertinent to what constitutes 'genuine' 'Aboriginality' for the purposes of winning land claims. Their revived traditions are pot what the state prescribes as representative of 'authentic' urban Aboriginal culture. -- The thesis analyses the ways in which urban Aboriginal peoples are makipg themselves in the era and context of native title. It considers the consequences of being themselves.
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Howe, Margaret L. "The bio-sociological relationship between Western Australian Aboriginals and their dogs." Murdoch University, 1993. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060815.151043.
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The hypothesis central to this study is that distinctly Aboriginal patterns of relationship between humans and dogs are still evident in contemporary Aboriginal groups. The relationship's sociological characteristics in traditional and contemporary settings and its implications for canine and human health are also investigated.
Field research employing survey, quantitative observation and specimen analysis techniques was conducted in 9 Western Australian Aboriginal groups of various
backgrounds and settings. Results were compared to historic-traditional accounts and dog ownership studies in non-Aboriginal groups.
Traditionally dogs served Aboriginals most importantly for supernatural protection and to assist the collection of small game by women. In non-isolated groups, traditional
utilitarian motives were superseded by the Western concept of dogs as companions.
Demographically, the Aboriginal dog populations surveyed were relatively large, and most dogs were classified as medium sized non-descript cross-breds.
Dogs were more commonly owned by adult and aged individuals, rather than by family units as is the Western cultural norm. Most dogs remained with their original owner
and retained their original name for life.
Traditional values of respect towards dogs were compromised to the discriminatory care of higher status animals only, effecting selection pressure against undesirable dogs, particularly females. Similarly, while many aged people were opposed to culling, most respondents regarded community pup production as excessive and accepted culling as necessary. Nevertheless prevention was the preferred option, with strong support for the previously unfamiliar concept of ovariohysterectomy.
Pups were raised in some respects like children in the traditional manner, indulgence giving way in adulthood to expectations of self-reliance rather than obedience.
Most dogs were in good physical and psychological condition, though more likely to be afflicted by sarcoptic mange than other Australian dogs. Other parasites occurred
at or below expected frequencies.
Close physical contact with dogs coupled with favourable microclimates allowed ample opportunity for transmission of canine zoonoses, but the actual risk to human health
remains poorly documented.
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Solonec, Jacinta. "Cast(e) in between: A mixed-descent family's coexistence in the West Kimberley 1944-1969." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/804.
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This thesis investigates the social and racial dynamics of life in the West Kimberley between 1944 and 1969. It identifies three groups defined by their racial characteristics which co-existed on the land: full-descent, mixed-descent and Gudia. It argues that despite many people in these different groups being related to each other, their lives followed different trajectories as a result of government policies and laws which defined people by their degree of Aboriginality. These racial categories were reflected in the social and economic relations of full-descent, mixed descent and Gudia people. Coexistence of these groups is analysed by focusing on one extended mixed-descent 'Nygkina' family. During the 1940s, 50s. and 60s, the children of Fulgentius and Phillipena Fraser left their mission haven and entered the world of employment under Gudia management. In 1944, a young 21 year old Spaniard, Francisco Casanova-Rodriguez, ventured to the Kimberley to work as a station hand. Rodriguez crossed paths with the Frasers in 1946 and he married their eldest daughter, Katie, in December of that year. He was accepted into the mixed-descent family, where kindred relationships deepened by virtue of mutual religious belief systems, amidst a life of discrimination and financial hardships. Rodriguez and Katie were devout Catholics and that became the strength of their relationship. An insight into this family's coexistence with Gudia during the twentieth century is extracted from Rodriguez's diaries, oral histories collected from the Fraser family and associates, and from government archival files. With their mission training the Fraser children became subservient employees to Gudia pastoralists and town business people. Rodriguez taught himself his trade as a builder,-and he, too, worked for pastoralists in an industry that was expected to flourish. But the certainty of a profitable sheep industry never eventuated, and by the early 1970s there were no sheep stations operating in the region. Neither were there many Aboriginal people living and working on the stations. Most had relocated to the towns. Full-descent people lived on reserves, while both mixed-descent and Gudia people lived either in their own homes, or in Housing Commission houses.
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Sharp, Pamela Agnes, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "A study of relationships between colonial women and black Australians." Deakin University, 1991. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060922.083240.
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The study is concerned with the history of black and white women in Australia during the colonial period. Particular emphasis is on the variety of cross-cultural relationships which developed between women during that time.
As a starting point, male frontier violence is discussed and compared with the more moderate approach taken by women faced with threatening situations. Among Europeans, women are revealed as being generally less racist than men. This was a significant factor in their ability to forge bonds with black women and occasionally with black men.
The way in which contacts with Aborigines were made is explored and the impact of them on the women concerned is assessed, as far as possible from both points of view. Until now, these experiences have been omitted from colonial history, yet I believe they were an important element in racial relations. It will be seen that some of these associations were warm, friendly and satisfying to both sides, and often included a good deal of mutual assistance. Others involved degrees of exploitation. Both are examined in detail, using a variety of sources which include the works of modern Aboriginal writers.
This study presents a new aspect of the female experiences which was neglected until the emergence of the feminist historians in the 1960s. It properly places women, both black and white, within Australian colonial history.
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Blackmore, Ernie. "Speakin' out blak an examination of finding an "urban" Indigenous "voice" through contemporary Australian theatre /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080111.121828/index.html, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080111.121828/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2007."Including the plays Positive expectations and Waiting for ships." Title from web document (viewed 7/4/08). Includes bibliographical references: leaf 249-267.
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Hart, Michael, and Yvonne Pompana. ""Establishing the Aboriginal Social Work Associations: Sharing the Manitoba experience"." School of Native Human Services, 2003. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/414.
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The impetus for this article arose out of a dialogue with
several like-minded people while attending an Aboriginal social work conference in Sudbury in
January of 2003. Our discussion revolved around the establishment of a national
Aboriginal social work association. During the discussion the people were informed of the
ongoing process in Manitoba to establish an Aboriginal social work association, namely the
Aboriginal Professional Helpers Society, Inc. What follows is a description of that process
beginning with background/history of our association, the identification of a number of challenges
we experienced or could potentially experience, the benefits and potentials we see for Aboriginal
social work associations, and a number of recommendations to support the development of these
associations.
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Howe, Margaret Lillian. "The bio-sociological relationship between Western Australian Aboriginals and their dogs." Thesis, Howe, Margaret Lillian (1993) The bio-sociological relationship between Western Australian Aboriginals and their dogs. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1993. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/78/.
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The hypothesis central to this study is that distinctly Aboriginal patterns of relationship between humans and dogs are still evident in contemporary Aboriginal groups. The relationship's sociological characteristics in traditional and contemporary settings and its implications for canine and human health are also investigated.
Field research employing survey, quantitative observation and specimen analysis techniques was conducted in 9 Western Australian Aboriginal groups of various backgrounds and settings. Results were compared to historic-traditional accounts and dog ownership studies in non-Aboriginal groups.
Traditionally dogs served Aboriginals most importantly for supernatural protection and to assist the collection of small game by women. In non-isolated groups, traditional utilitarian motives were superseded by the Western concept of dogs as companions.
Demographically, the Aboriginal dog populations surveyed were relatively large, and most dogs were classified as medium sized non-descript cross-breds.
Dogs were more commonly owned by adult and aged individuals, rather than by family units as is the Western cultural norm. Most dogs remained with their original owner and retained their original name for life.
Traditional values of respect towards dogs were compromised to the discriminatory care of higher status animals only, effecting selection pressure against undesirable dogs, particularly females. Similarly, while many aged people were opposed to culling, most respondents regarded community pup production as excessive and accepted culling as necessary. Nevertheless prevention was the preferred option, with strong support for the previously unfamiliar concept of ovariohysterectomy.
Pups were raised in some respects like children in the traditional manner, indulgence giving way in adulthood to expectations of self-reliance rather than obedience. Most dogs were in good physical and psychological condition, though more likely to be afflicted by sarcoptic mange than other Australian dogs. Other parasites occurred at or below expected frequencies.
Close physical contact with dogs coupled with favourable microclimates allowed ample opportunity for transmission of canine zoonoses, but the actual risk to human health remains poorly documented.
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Howe, Margaret Lillian. "The bio-sociological relationship between Western Australian Aboriginals and their dogs /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 1993. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060815.151043.
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Belicic, Michael Joseph. "Alcohol and violence in Aboriginal communities : issues, programs and healing initiatives." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
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Alcohol misuse is considered the most significant cause of violence in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. All members of the Aboriginal
community feel the impact of heavy alcohol consumption and related violence.
Initiatives that attempt to reduce alcohol consumption as a strategy to decrease crisis
levels of violence have had limited success. This thesis examines the extent and
patterns of Aboriginal alcohol consumption and explores the relationship between
alcohol misuse and violence, using secondary statistical and exploratory literature. It
will be contended that: the link between alcohol misuse and violence is not a simple
cause and effect relationship; and Aboriginal family and community violence are
symptoms of underlying social and psychological trauma.
This thesis presents qualitative researched case studies of Aboriginal alcohol treatment organisations, and Aboriginal initiatives that address the issues underlying violence. It is argued that interventions focusing on alcohol alone will not reduce family violence and community dysfunction. A "grassroots," Aboriginal community based response is presented as an alternative to reactive and short-term interventions.
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Prout, Sarah. "Security and belonging reconceptualising Aboriginal spatial mobilities in Yamatji country, Western Australia /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/23030.
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"December 2006".Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Human Geography, 2007.
Bibliography: p. 284-307.
Introduction -- Case-study area profile and methodology -- A walkabout race?: contemporary Aboriginal mobilities in Yamatji country -- State service provision and Aboriginal mobilities -- Security and belonging: re-conceptualising Aboriginal mobilities -- Security and belonging and the mainstream economy -- The ties that bind: negotiating security and belonging through family -- Conclusion.
This dissertation explores contemporary Aboriginal spatial practices in Yamatji country, Western Australia, within the context of rural service provision by the State government. The central themes with which it engages are a) historical and contemporary conceptualisations of Aboriginal spatialities; b) the lived experiences of Aboriginal mobilities in the region; and c) the dialectical, and often contentious, relationship between Aboriginal spatial practices and public health, housing, and education services. Drawing primarily on a range of field interviews, the thesis opens up a discursive space for examining the cultural content and hidden assumptions in constructions of 'appropriate' models of spatial mobility. In taking a policy-oriented focus, it argues that the appropriate provision of basic government services requires a shift away from overly simplistic assumptions and discourses of Aboriginal mobility. Until the often subtle practices of rendering particular Aboriginal mobilities as irrational, deviant, and/or mysterious are challenged and replaced, deep-colonising practices in rural and remote Australia will persist. --The thesis reconceptualises contemporary Aboriginal spatial practices in Yamatji country based upon an examination of dynamics and circumstances that undergird Aboriginal mobilities in the region. With this empirical focus, it argues that Aboriginal spatial practices are fashioned by the processes of procuring, cultivating and contesting a sense of security and belonging. Case study material presented suggests that two primary considerations inform these processes. A post-settlement history of contested alienation from family and country (both sources from which belonging and security were traditionally derived), and a changing engagement with mainstream social and economic institutions, have produced a context in which security and belonging are iteratively derived from a number of sources. Contemporary Aboriginal spatial practices therefore take a complex variety of forms. The thesis concludes that adopting the framework of security and belonging for interpreting contemporary Aboriginal mobilities provides a starting point for engaging more effectively and intentionally with dynamic Aboriginal spatial practices in service delivery policy and practice.
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Frawley, J. W., University of Western Sydney, College of Social and Health Sciences, and School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. "Country all round : the significance of a community's history for work and workplace education." THESIS_CSHS_ASH_Frawley_J.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/528.
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the significance of a Tiwi community's history in order to better understand the work of Aboriginal Community Police Officers (ACPO).The situation under study is a workplace on Bathurst Island in the Northern Territory. The literature on workplace education offers the proposition that an understanding of the socio-cultural and historical context of workplaces is fundamental to thinking about workplace education.It is hypothesised that ACPOs have a dual consciousness of their profession and their workplace, and this consciousness has been informed and shaped by their common history.It is argued that this history is characterised by syncretism. The process of acculturation is researched, where police officers draw on experiences with, and knowledge of, both Tiwi and murrintawi societies.An historical account of the Tiwi society is given.A literary device of vignettes is used, followed by a descriptive-analytical interpretation in which historical events and various social-cultural aspects are described, analysed and interpretedDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Teh, Melissa. "Australians' and Tongans' responses to escalating workplace conflict : a social rules analysis /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16827.pdf.
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Quinn, Emerald. "The story of indigenous Australians : the role of categorisation shifts in inter-group conflict resolution and collective action for social change /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19740.pdf.
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Groves, Ronald George. "Fourth world consumer culture: Emerging consumer cultures in remote Aboriginal communities of North-Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1201.
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Over the two centuries since the arrival of European settlers in Australia, the material culture and lifestyle of the indigenous Aboriginal people of Australia has undergone dramatic change. Based on qualitative fieldwork in three remote Aboriginal communities in north-western Australia, this study examines the emergence of unique consumer cultures that appear to differ significantly from mainstream Australia and indeed from other societies. The study finds that the impact of non-indigenous goods and external cultural values upon these communities has been significant. However, although anthropologists feared some fifty years ago that Aboriginal cultural values and traditions had been destroyed, this study concludes that they are still powerful moderating forces in each of the communities studied. The most powerful are non-possessiveness, immediacy in consumption, and a strong sharing ethos. Unlike findings in the so-called Second and Third Worlds, these Fourth World consumer cultures have not developed an unquenchable desire for manufactured consumer goods. Instead, non-traditional consumption practices have been modified by tradition oriented practices. The consumer cultures that have emerged through a synthesis of global and local values and practices have involved Aboriginal adoption, adaption and resistance practices. This process has resulted in both positive and negative impacts on the Aboriginal people of these communities. Ways of dealing with the negative effects have been suggested, while the positive effects have been highlighted as examples of what can possibly be learned from Aboriginal culture. The study also finds differences between the emerging consumer cultures of each community, concluding that this can be attributed to historical and cultural differences. The main conclusion is that the development of a global consumer culture is by no means inevitable.
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Kealy, Vanessa. "Imagined spaces: interpreting perceptions of place and regulation of spaces through the processes of normalisation and reconciliation at Weipa." Thesis, Macquarie University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/269920.
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As an imagined space of suburban normalcy, Weipa North, far north Queensland, is in a transition of governance, from a Comalco controlled space to a local government entity. 'Normalisation1 of the 'company town' is revealed as a mechanism of regulation, excluding the local Aboriginal community of Napranum which is constructed as Weipa North's 'other'.
This thesis focuses on the process of normalising' Weipa North through the experience of young Aboriginal people, and argues that normalisation' of Weipa North will not lead to Aboriginal reconciliation within the Weipa area. Marginalisation of young Aboriginal people's concerns and aspirations surrounding issues of 'normalisation', it is argued, undermines the potential for reconciliation where Comalco assumes connections to country
and culture are irrelevant to young Aboriginal people
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Hardie, Charlotte. "Seven spans thick: exploring resilience from the perspectives of Aboriginal peoples living off-reserve." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40804.
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Building on the limited foundation of asset-based research in Aboriginal communities, this study explores how Aboriginal peoples living off reserve experience and perceive resilience. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five Aboriginal members of a small, non-native community. Themes emerging from the interviews highlight the importance of connections to family, culture, community, land, and public services, as well as to a sense of life purpose. These results support and expand existing resilience theory, and relate to social determinants of health and social capital theories. Implications of the study demonstrate the importance of a holistic approach to personal well-being, responsibility for which is balanced between the individual and society, and which requires careful negotiation between Aboriginal and mainstream cultures.Puisque la plupart des études sur les questions autochtones se concentrent sur les problèmes et les conflits, on oublie souvent d’examiner la force caractère et la persévérance démontrées par les peuples autochtones. Le sujet de cette recherche est le bien-être et la réussite des personnes autochtones qui habitent hors-réserve. Les entrevues ont été faites avec cinq individus autochtones dans une petite communauté au Québec. Les thèmes qui en ressortent démontrent l’importance des liens avec la famille, la culture, la communauté, la terre, et les services sociaux, ainsi que l’importance d’avoir une ‘raison d’être’. La théorie de résilience est à la fois soutenue et élargie par ces résultats, qui se rapportent aussi aux théories sociologiques comme le capital social. Cette étude démontre la valeur d’une approche holistique au bien-être, et souligne l’équilibre de la responsabilité entre l’individu et l’état. Elle souligne aussi l’importance qu’il faut porter aux négotiations entre les différentes cultures.
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Hart, Michael Anthony. ""Seeking Minopimatasiwin (the Good Life): An Aboriginal approach to social work practice"." School of Native Human Services, 1999. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/460.
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Aboriginal peoples have been utilizing their own approaches to helping one another for centuries. Many Aboriginal social workers have incorporated these approaches or aspects of them in their professional practice. However, such approaches have not always been respected on their own merits by the social work profession. In recognition of this concern, the Canadian Association of the Social Workers (1994) have acknowledged the need for greater understanding and respect of Aboriginal practices.
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Doohan, Kim. "One family, different country : the development and persistence of an Aboriginal community at Finke, Northern Territory." Master's thesis, University of Western Australia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/274429.
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Rozanna, Lilley. "Paperbark people, paperbark country : gender relations, past and present, amongst the Kungarakany of the Northern Territory." Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/275607.
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Not having the feeling of presenting a clearly identifiable product, I will explain some of the basic impressions that motivated this thesis, point out the targets it is aimed at, the polemics it engages in or opens and indicate something of the design of the work.
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Doohan, Kim Elizabeth. ""Making things come good" Aborigines and miners at Argyle /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/145.
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Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, Department of Human Geography, 2007."November 2006".
Bibliography: p. 352-398.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
xvi, 399 p. ill., maps
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Kickett-Tucker, Cheryl S. "Urban Aboriginal children in sport: Experiences, perceptions and sense of self." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1258.
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The purpose of this study was to describe the sense of self for a group of urban Western Australian Aboriginal children through analysing their perspectives and experiences in school sport and physical education. A symbolic interaction inquiry paradigm complemented with qualitative data collection methods was utilised. Informal conversational interviews and nonparticipant observations were employed. Interviews were conducted with participants and those whom they reported as their significant others. Participants were also observed in the school sport setting during physical education classes and intra and inter school sport competitions. Eight Western Australian Aboriginal children who resided in an urban suburb of Perth, Western Australia and attended a coeducational state school were the participants. Upper primary students, aged 11 to 12 years were included with an equal representation of both males and females. Data were analysed in accordance with Colaizzi’s (1978) procedure. Significant participant responses were extracted and meanings were identified in order to group the meanings into various themes. It was found that Aboriginal students mostly experienced positive interactions with others in the school sport setting. They demonstrated above average sport skills and were consistently rewarded with praise from their fellow peers and teachers. Aboriginal students did not enjoy physical education since it limited their participation, social interaction with others and their enjoyment. Team sports were preferred, but females reported that they disliked coeducational sport competition. Aboriginal students reported that participating in sport (particularly team sports) made them feel happy about themselves since it provided an opportunity for them to feel proud of identifying as an Aboriginal. Opportunities for equality and acceptance from others were more accessible in the school sport domain, since feedback for performances was constant and contained positive information. Feedback was often supplied immediately after a performance and was directed to the student concerned. For some though, sport participation could also result in students experiencing shame. This occurred when a mistake was performed or when significant "others" were present and observed their participation. In all, school sport provided the opportunities for Aboriginal students to develop positive and favourable self-perceptions, particularly with regard to their Aboriginal identity.
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McBride, Gerald F. "Are there lessons to be learned by ecological economics from the wisdom of the Kaurna people?" Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envm119.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 64-66. Argues that the sustainable lifestyle of traditional Aboriginal communities acheived the teleological harmony suggested as a possible conceptual framework for the emerging area of study known as ecological economics.
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Sevo, Goran, and sevo1984@yubc net. "A multidimensional assessment of health and functional status in older Aboriginal Australians from Katherine and Lajamanu, Northern Territory." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20051021.144853.
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Human health is multidimensional: apart from physical, mental, and social aspects, it also
incorporates subjective perceptions of health, and functional status (FS). Given that elderly
persons have very distinctive health and social needs, multidimensional assessment (MA)
of health proves particularly useful in this age group.¶
Aboriginal populations suffer poor health, and there are relatively few studies addressing
the health problems of older Aboriginal Australians, mainly because of their distinctive
demographic structure, and the low proportion of their elderly. Also, there is no prior
information available on MA of health in this Australian population group.¶
This thesis offers a MA of health in older Aboriginal persons from two, urban and
rural/isolated, locations in the NT, Katherine and Lajamanu (the NT survey).¶
This thesis specifically addresses the following questions:
- what is the physical health, FS, subjective perception of health, and social
functioning amongst the NT survey participants?
- what are the possible similarities and differences in various dimensions of health
between the two major survey locations, what age and gender patterns are
observed, and what are the reasons for these patterns, similarities and
differences?
- how do various dimensions of health relate to each other, and why?
- how do current findings relate to broader Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
populations, and why?
- what can MA add to a better understanding of various aspects of morbidity and
health care use?
- what are its possible implications for health planning?¶
Findings from this work indicate poor physical health amongst participants in almost all
investigated aspects, comparable to information available from other Aboriginal
populations. These are accompanied by low levels of ability for physical functioning. Despite this, subjective perception of health is rather optimistic amongst participants, and
levels of social functioning high. Use of health services is mainly related to available health
infrastructure. Important health differences exist between Katherine and Lajamanu, and
they became particularly visible when all dimensions of health are considered together.¶
The Main conclusions from the current work are that 1) poor physical health is not
necessarily accompanied by similar level of deterioration in other dimensions of health:
even though participants from the isolated community of Lajamanu experience most
chronic diseases, their ability for physical functioning is better, self-perceived health (SPH)
more optimistic and levels of social functioning highest 2) institutionalised participants from
Katherine suffer by far the worst health of all sample segments in this study; at least some
of the poor health outcomes are potentially avoidable, and could be improved by more
appropriate residential choices for Aboriginal elderly 3) better health infrastructure does
not necessarily bring better health in all its dimensions, suggesting that other factors
(primarily socio-economic and cultural) should be addressed in conjunction with this in
solving complex health problems of Aboriginal Australians, and 4) it provides strong
support that MA can become a useful tool in comprehensive health assessment of older
Aboriginals.
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Elder, Catriona, and catriona elder@arts usyd edu au. "Dreams and nightmares of a 'White Australia' : the discourse of assimilation in selected works of fiction from the 1950s and 1960s." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 1999. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20050714.143939.
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This thesis is an analysis of the production of assimilation discourse, in
terms of Aboriginal people’s and white people’s social relations, in a small
selection of popular fiction texts from the 1950s and 1960s. I situate these
novels in the broader context of assimilation by also undertaking a
reading of three official texts from a slightly earlier period. These texts
together produce the ambivalent white Australian story of assimilation.
They illuminate some of the key sites of anxiety in assimilation discourses:
inter-racial sexual relationships, the white family, and children and young
adults of mixed heritage and land ownership. The crux of my argument is
that in the 1950s and early 1960s the dominant cultural imagining of
Australia was as a white nation. In white discourses of assimilation to
fulfil the dream of whiteness, the Aboriginal people – the not-white – had
to be included in or eliminated from this imagined white community.
Fictional stories of assimilation were a key site for the representation of
this process, that is, they produced discourses of ‘assimilation
colonization’. The focus for this process were Aboriginal people of mixed
ancestry, who came to be represented as ‘the half-caste’ in assimilation
discourse. The novels I analyse work as ‘conduct books’. They aim to
shape white reactions to the inclusion of Aboriginal people, in particular
the half-caste, into ‘white Australia’. This inclusion, assimilation, was an
ambivalent project – both pleasurable and unsettling – pleasurable
because it worked to legitimate white colonization (Aboriginal presence as
erased) and unsettling because it challenged the idea of a pure ‘white
Australia’.
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Hughes, Bridget Y. "Collective impact: Closing the gap in educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Queensland." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230011/1/Bridget_Hughes_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examined the educational outcomes for Indigenous children enrolled in Queensland state (public) primary schools from the perspective of the collective and social impact of programs and services. The study used quantifiable data to show that the gap is not closing, regardless of an improvement in attendance, along with literacy and numeracy achievement levels, in certain regions of Queensland.
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Frawley, J. W. "Country all round : the significance of a community's history for work and workplace education /." View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030416.131433/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2001."A thesis submitted in the School of Applied Social and Health Sciences at the University of Western Sydney (Nepean) for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, February 2001" Bibliography : leaves 327-343.
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Elder, David R. "The social construction of Aboriginal fringe-dwellers." Master's thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116806.
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Since the early days of the colonization of
Australia, governments have established commissions and
committes of inquiry to investigate and to provide them
with advice about solutions to the Aboriginal 'problem'.'
These inquiries, as Woenne notes, have also had an
educative aspect, informing the general public of the 'true
state of affairs' of the Aboriginal situation, (woenne
1979:324-56) The passing of the 1967 referendum and the
establishment of Aboriginals as an issue of public interest
has seen an increasing reliance by governments on the
advisory and educative functions of such inquiries. Current
policies of self-determination and self-management have
contributed to this trend as governments have established
inquiries to consult with Aborigines and provide them with
advice that ostensibly reflects Aboriginal needs and
desires. Despite this trend there are few studies of such
inquiries. (Woenne 1979 and Australian Institute of
Aboriginal Studies 1984) This thesis is about one of these
inquiries, that of the House of Representatives Standing
Committed on Aboriginal Affairs into fringe-dwelling
Aboriginal communities.
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Reid, Gordon Stephen. "Queensland and the aboriginal problem, 1838-1901." Phd thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110014.
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The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act,
introduced by the Queensland parliament in 1897, was the most
important of the various pieces of legislation affecting Aborigines
passed by the Australian colonies. It attempted to improve the
condition of Aborigines by providing safeguards on the terms of their
employment and by confining those not employed to reserves where, it
was expected, they would no longer be adversely affected by contact
with Europeans and others. The thesis argues that, contrary to the
views of other writers, the 1897 Act was consistent with a long
tradition of humanitarian attempts to produce an effective protection
system. To understand the Act fully that tradition must be studied in
depth.
The Preface summarises the legislation and the Introduction states the
reasons for studying this topic, reviews related literature and puts
the argument to be advanced. The thesis is in two parts, the first
dealing with efforts before the 1890s to assist the Aborigines and the
second with the changed circumstances which caused the government to
take action, the Act and the immediate aftermath. The first three
chapters in Part l deal with the work of the Lutheran missionaries who
arrived in Moreton Bay in 1838, the experience of the Presbyterian
missionary, William Ridley, and the campaign of the former Native
Police commandant, Frederick Walker, on behalf of the Aborigines. The
opposing views of the squatters, on one hand, and churchmen and other
humanitarians, on the other, are examined in the next three chapters.
Then, the failure of Edward Fuller's mission on Fraser island is
contrasted with the partial success of the first Aboriginal reserve at
Mackay. Three chapters are given to considering the practical work of
the two Aborigines commissions in the 1870s along with the impractical
idealism of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Duncan McNab. The
collapse of humanitarian effort in the late 1870s and early 1880s is
examined as a prelude to the resurgence of missionary work,
particularly by the Lutherans in northern Queensland, in the late
1880s.
In Part 2 close attention is given over several chapters to Archibald
Meston, because of the part he played in devising a workable
protection system and forcing it upon a hesitant government. The
passage of the 1897 legislation through parliament is considered in some detail, as the debates clarify contemporary political positions
and community attitudes. In the last two chapters the administration
of the new law in the period before 1901, when an important amendment
was made, is briefly surveyed. This leads to some reflections on the
previous lack of effective administration in Aboriginal affairs in
Queensland and its ready acceptance in the 1890s.
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Khalidi, Noor Ahmad. "The Aboriginal population of Alice Springs : a demographic study." Phd thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117707.
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Our knowledge of Aboriginal demography in Australia at a national level is limited by the lack of
conformity of the census counts on the size of the population and the unavailability of vital data.
Hence, regional and small area studies were found useful to reveal the recent patterns of
Aboriginal demography. This study begins with a review of Aboriginal demography at a national
level. The distinct demographic characteristics of the Aboriginal population are pointed out in
comparison with the total population of the country. The study then focuses on a regional level,
Central Australia, for a closer examination of mortality and fertility levels, patterns, trends and
differentials. It confirms that the levels of Aboriginal mortality and fertility in Central Australia are
substantially higher than those of the total population of the country and are similar to those
found for the Aboriginal population elsewhere; however, it registers, for the first time through a
single study on a particular population, the occurrence of a process of steady decline in
Aboriginal mortality and establishes that this decline in mortality is largely due to the reduction in
deaths from diseases of the circulatory and respiratory systems, which are in the meantime still
the leading causes of death of the Aboriginal people. Aboriginal fertility was found to be very
high in the early ages of childbearing and the observed decline is mostly due to the reduction of
fertility of the older women of 30 and over and younger women of 15-19. A detailed study of the
demographic characteristics of the Aboriginal population in Alice Springs revealed that while as
a whole the characteristics of Alice Springs Aborigines are similar to those of Aborigines
elsewhere, different patterns of socio-economic and historical conditions have led to the
emergence of two demographically distinct Aboriginal groups in Alice Springs; those Aborigines
who live in the town proper and those who live in the town camps. While the majority of those
Aborigines who migrated to the town proper came from other urban centres, most of the town
campers are rural-urban migrants mostly from ether Aboriginal settlements and stations in
Central Australia.
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Ottosson, Ase-Britt Charlotta. "Making Aboriginal men and music in Central Australia." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149659.
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Adams, Christine. "Melancholic attachments : the making and medicalisation of Aboriginal 'loss'." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109777.
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This thesis examines the loss of Aboriginal Australians as both an embodied
experience and a powerful form of identity-construction. The focus of research is
on southeast Australia where Aboriginal people, having suffered profound and
often violent dispossession and state-authorised intrusion into their lives and
communities, have been consistently defined in terms of their 'loss' of those
qualities seen to constitute 'authentic' Aboriginality. I show how Aborigines have
taken up and interacted with these dominant ascriptions of their identity such that
the experience of loss has become a constitutive quality of Aboriginality in
southern Australia, a pivotal basis of identification in public and political arenas.
Further, I demonstrate how Aborigines' experience of loss has been reframed in
dialectic with dominant forms of knowledge in changing socio-political milieux.
In particular, I contend that in the last decades of the twentieth century,
Aboriginal loss has been subsumed and redefined within the categories of
psychology and psychiatry. I argue that this psychologisation of Aboriginal
experience has significant ramifications in terms of how Aborigines are known
and come to know themselves.
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Jenkins, Stephen (Stephen William). "Australia's Commonwealth Self-determination Policy 1972-1998 : the imagined nation and the continuing control of indigenous existence." 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phj522.pdf.
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"September 2002." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 336-366) Argues that the Australian nation is the primary obstacle to the granting of self-determination to indigenous people because it is imagined and constituted as a monocultural entity, one that resists any divisions within the national space on the basis of culture or 'race'.
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Jenkins, Stephen (Stephen William). "Australia's Commonwealth Self-determination Policy 1972-1998 : the imagined nation and the continuing control of indigenous existence / Stephen Jenkins." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21932.
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"September 2002."Includes bibliographical references (leaves 336-366)
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Argues that the Australian nation is the primary obstacle to the granting of self-determination to indigenous people because it is imagined and constituted as a monocultural entity, one that resists any divisions within the national space on the basis of culture or 'race'.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Politics, 2002
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Jagger, David Stewart. "The capacity for community development to improve conditions in Australian Aboriginal communities : an anthropological analysis." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109231.
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For 35 years, Aboriginal self-determination policy privileged local autonomy in the autonomy-relatedness dynamic central to Aboriginal sociality. This privileging brought a major change to Aboriginal sociality and collective identity. The self in self-determination policy had a strongly local focus through which it was thought community development would thrive. Key connected factors in the privileging of local autonomy are socio-cultural reification, juridification and entification. The reification is with respect to identity associated with land-based tradition. All three of these factors are contrary to the profound processes of relatedness in the Australian Aboriginal domain. The so-called intervention by the Commonwealth into Northern Territory Aboriginal affairs in 2007 dramatically changed the policy settings in the NT at least. But local autonomy remains privileged over relatedness. As such, this thesis argues, the foundation for an Aboriginal civil society able to negotiate the now very fluid policy environment and make the most of the opportunities presented in community development projects like the thesis case studies in fact remains generally weak. The thesis argues that recognition of relatedness is the basis of civil society in the Aboriginal domain and a key to improvements in Australian Aboriginal communities, without dismissing local autonomy. The common good inherent in community development is limited without this recognition. So is cultural match, said to be important in development project governance in the Indigenous domain. The thesis examines these matters through three case studies, community development projects that use moneys paid to Aboriginal people from the use of Aboriginal land for mining and a national park. An important finding is that autonomy-relatedness balance reflected in the governance arrangements of community development projects is needed for Aboriginal people to properly identify with the projects and thus participate meaningfully in them in order to realise tangible and sustainable community benefits from them. Meanwhile, commercial development like mining continues to favour the certainty afforded in the localising factors of reification, juridification and entification. Aboriginal self-determination has been characterised as a policy of disengagement of wider society from Aboriginal people. Consistent with this, and again contrary to relatedness, an underlying theme in the thesis is that of separation. As well as the disengagement of the policy, this separation includes the separation of some Aboriginal people from other Aboriginal people arising from locally emplaced identity, tradition from modernity and community development from economic development and the market economy. At this level, the thesis points to the importance of an intercultural approach to development entertaining the notion of hybridity including that of the hybrid economy. This is not to deny the benefits of self-determination policy over its policy predecessors, much less to suggest a return to assimilation policy in particular, but to suggest some ways to help resolve the serious problems still facing remote Aboriginal communities as well as to flag the limitations of community development in this context.
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Sanders, Will. "Access, administration and politics : the Australian social security system and Aborigines." Phd thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/130118.
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This work is about Australian government social security
policy towards Aborigines. It begins by outlining the move from
the legislative exclusion of Aborigines from the social security
system in the early part of this century to their gradual
legislative inclusion between 1941 and 1966. The rest of chapter
1 is devoted to clarifying my conceptual approach to the notion
of policy and to outlining an approach to the study. In it I
argue that policy needs to be understood in terms of patterns of
governmental commitment over time, rather than as something that
can be comprehended in particular documents, such as legislation,
or in the words or actions of particular participants, such as
government ministers. As a consequence, policy needs to be
studied and analysed as it emerges from the strategic
interactions of all those involved in a particular shpere of
governmental activity. This approach to the study of policy
commits me to examining the established patterns of governmental
commitment against which recent relations between Aborigines and
the social security system have emerged. For this reason, the
rest of part I of the work provides background material on the
general dynamics of Australian social security administration and
on general governmental approaches to Aborigines.
Parts II and III of the work provide a detailed empirical
account of recent relations between the social security system
and Aborigines. Building on a distinction between patronal and
legal bureaucratic access structures for the poor, part II
analyses the changing roles and resources of participants
involved in this area of government activity. Chapter 4 identifies the way in which social security payments to
Aborigines were, until the 1960s, largely incorporated into the
existing highly patronal special purpose state-level Aboriginal
welfare systems. Chapter 5 traces the transformation of this
pattern of servicing through a growing DSS awareness of and
commitment to it new Aboriginal clientele, while chapter 6
identifies the effects on Aboriginal access to social security
payments of changes in the non-government Aboriginal welfare
sector.
Part III of the work inquires more closely into the
processes through which this general policy change has occurred.
It examines a number of specific debates in recent years over the
application of particular aspects of the social security system's
rules to Aborigines. Chapter 7 examines instances of the
breakdown of standard DSS procedures when applied to Aborigines.
Chapter 8 recounts debates over the application of the social
security system's family income units to Aborigines. Chapters 9
and 10 are concerned with various aspects of recent debates over
Aboriginal eligibility for unemployment benefit.
Part IV of the work returns to the overall concern with
policy maintenance and transformation. Drawing on the details of
parts II and III, it attempts first to identify the general
nature of the transformation of Aboriginal access to social
security payments and of the DSS's commitment to Aborigines and
second to identify some general characteristics of the processes
through which this policy change has emerged.
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Schwab, Robert. "The "Blackfella Way" : ideology and practice in an urban Aboriginal community." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110284.
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This is a study of urban Aboriginal ideology, conducted in Adelaide, South
Australia. It addresses the issue of Aboriginal identity and argues that in order
to understand the Aboriginal sense of self it is necessary to examine the tension
between history, ideas, dispositions and social practice in the context of the
objective conditions of daily life. The thesis is that there exists among
Aborigines in Adelaide an ideational system they refer to as the "Blackfella
Way". An overview of the structure and content of the Blackfella Way in terms
of its two distinct and complementary dimensions, essence and style, is
presented. It is argued that this system is an historical, cognitive and social
construction which synthesizes the tone, texture, style, and mood of life and
provides a conceptual and practical framework through which individuals
formulate, think about &mi act in the world.
The process whereby the ideational system is translated into ideology and the
structural position of Aborigines in Adelaide reproducer :s also examined.
Consideration is given to the ways in which social and ideological formations
mediate the influence of external events and forces and shape human practice
are explored. It is argued that through the process of symbolic violence, the
limitations of the objective conditions become internalized and appropriated.
Objective conditions thus inform and frame the ideological system which
Aboriginal actors produce, reproduce and which ultimately reproduces the
existing imbalance of power.
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Trebeck, Katherine. "Democratisation through corporate social responsibility? : the case of miners and indigenous Australians." Phd thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151703.
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Monaghan, James. "'Our way': social space and the geography of land allocation practice on the southern gulf lowlands of Cape York Peninsula." Thesis, 2005. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/1284/13/JCU_1284_Monaghan_2005_thesis.pdf.
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This thesis reviews the geography of land allocation practice in Pormpuraaw and Kowanyama. The two communities are adjacent to each other on the southern Gulf Lowlands of Cape York Peninsula and their Aboriginal residents share many ties of kinship, though since their establishment in the earlier years of the 20th century they have had differing experiences of church mission and then State administration of their affairs. As with other rural Aboriginal communities in Queensland, their ‘Deed of Grant in Trust’ or DOGIT title to community lands was transferred to locally elected Community councils in 1987. This was followed in the 1990s by the establishment of homelands or outstations by kin groups and their families in their traditional homeland country. A number of historically contingent as well as traditional protocols appear to have been used in the selection of these homeland sites.
Community life is complex and the rationale that underlies decision-making on homeland allocation and land use issues is often difficult to elucidate in community land planning as decision-making can encapsulate criteria that are taken for granted and thus not referred to when people explain either their actions or aspirations. Bourdieu’s concept of ‘habitus’ (1977, 1984) is used as a conceptual framework in this thesis to explore what I propose are the implicit or taken for granted and the explicit or declared properties of landscapes in the southern Gulf Lowlands in order to explain the geography of land allocation practice that prevails there in the early 21st century.
Specifically, this thesis treats the historical and geographical interactions between the DOGIT tenure and the Aboriginal landscape, and the seasonal proximity of traditional country to the community township as core properties of implicit or unstated space. Explicit space is identified by the landmarks, places and personal geographies that people refer to when describing personal connections to traditional country or when reviewing community land management issues. My thesis is that at the convergence of these geographies there is a praxis which explains a large part of the diversity in land allocation practice on the southern Gulf Lowlands today.
In order to develop and confirm my thesis I apply concepts of ‘social space’ developed by Bourdieu (1977, 1984), Casey (1993, 2001), Lefebvre (1991) and Soja (1996) and their view that geographical space is not just a passive container of social relations but is a generative medium where social practice is actively reproduced. To this end, this thesis develops a series of cartographic models which use kinship models of social organisation and ethno-archaeological models of the spatial organisation of land use to project the properties of social space onto the physical spaces of the townscapes and landscapes of the southern Gulf Lowlands. The topology of social space is reproduced at three levels of emplacement in patterns of household residency in the townscape; in land use and homeland affiliation in the landscape, and in personal space and the daily life of personal relationships and of work and recreation. The relative congruence or disjuncture between these modeled spaces provide direct insights into processes that underlie the geography of land allocation practice in Kowanyama and Pormpuraaw.
Differences in land allocation practice between Kowanyama and Pormpuraaw, which are identified in both the implicit and explicit properties of social space in each community, are complemented by a marked congruity between their respective mapped landscapes and townscapes. Local variations in practice are also identified in implicit space within each community, in landscape units that have their latency in either the seasonal properties of the Aboriginal landscape, the coincident mainstream DOGIT tenure or their proximity to the township.
Explicit space is filled with a comprehensive knowledge of the environmental properties of the southern Gulf Lowlands that is referenced to geography of European and Aboriginal places and landmarks in the region. People used differing kinds of landmark knowledge, depending on their clan or tribe affiliation and their age or their life experiences, to describe their homeland country as well as the wider region. Everybody has their own personal suite of person- place – social space relationships that define their homeland, tribe or community affiliation. As a result of generational differences in landscape knowledge between people, there may be a variety of person-place-space topologies in any homeland group but they all refer to a common geographical space and shared identity. The social spaces which these topologies refer to are stable over time and present day homeland spaces correspond with those clan estates and tribal domains mapped by anthropologists in the 20th century. The underlying geometry of traditional country is immutable, as it is central to indigenous perceptions of social space in the southern Gulf Lowlands. It is only the suite of places or landmarks that people use to map themselves onto the landscape that changes over time. This geography is part of a continuous process of innovation and re-creation in southern Gulf Lowlands society. It is also the core spatial praxis that links implicit space and explicit space and reconciles local and introduced tenures in local land allocation practice.
The primary motive for the maintenance of person-place-space relationships is the affirmation of Aboriginal identity. Social space is both egocentric and sociocentric. Any person may possess different assemblages of person-place-space relationships at homeland, tribal, community and regional scales of social aggregation. Hence, in principle each person may have their own unique ‘private geography’ that enhances individuation and personal as well as social identity across all geographical scales of social space. This spatial praxis is part of a wide repertoire of strategies that is used by Aboriginal people to cope with mainstream Australia and the attendant roles that are occasionally placed on them as objects of academic research or policy-making or as service recipients. It appears, in the early years of the 21st century, that the geographies which were created by Aboriginal people as a result of 20th century colonisation of western Cape York Peninsula are very localised and specialised adaptations to local historical and geographical circumstances, and are unlikely to ever change again: if so, then this diversity and immutability have considerable implications for the future development of land policy in the region. This thesis concludes with a consideration of the unique roles that geography and cartography have in socially inclusive regional and community scale Aboriginal land planning in North Australia.
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Monaghan, James. "'Our way' : social space and the geography of land allocation practice on the southern gulf lowlands of Cape York Peninsula /." 2005. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/1284.
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