Working with Complexity: Community Engagement and the Murdi Paaki COAG Trial 2002- 2007
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Abstract: Achieving improvements in indigenous health and education and reducing the incidence of crime and domestic violence in indigenous communities has proved heartbreakingly difficult. A large part of the problem (certainly as perceived by many indigenous Australians) is that governments see…
Co-management of Marine Environment: A Sea of Changes in Power Relationships?
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Abstract: Since the 1980s, co-management strategies have been implemented in various contexts as an “attempt to enable those individuals and groups previously excluded by more top-down planning processes, and who are often marginalized by their separation and isolation from the production of…
Mobilising Indigenous resource income for development: PhD pre-fieldwork presentation on information limitations and testing the resource curse theory
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Abstract: The so-called resources super-cycle is delivering considerable revenue to Indigenous landowners and this is likely to continue in coming decades. The value of production on Indigenous land in the Pilbara, Groote Eylandt, and Roxby Downs, to name just a few places, has increased many times…
Eliminating Inter-Ethnic Inequalities? Assessing Impacts of Education Policies on Ethnic Minority Children in Vietnam through Young Lives Research
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Abstract: This paper examines the mixed impact of the implementation of education policies aimed at ethnic minorities in Vietnam. It draws on the Young Lives http://www.younglives.org.uk/ survey in 2005 and a qualitative research on 23 Kinh (the majority), Hmong and H'Roi children from the Young…
Traditional culture and the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians
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This paper was presented by Alfred Michael Dockery at the 'Social Science Perspectives on the 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey' conference, 11-12 April 2001, The Australian National University, Canberra. The session title was 'Culture, wellbeing and concluding…
Indigenous house utilisation and crowding: Data from the NATSISS 2008
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This paper was presented by Paul Memmott and Kelly Greenop at the 'Social Science Perspectives on the 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey' conference, 11-12 April 2001, The Australian National University, Canberra. The session title was 'Crime and Housing'. The…
Is Indigenous Poverty different from other poverty?
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This paper was presented by Boyd Hunter at the 'Social Science Perspectives on the 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey' conference, 11-12 April 2001, The Australian National University, Canberra. The session title was 'Income, work and engagement in market and non-…