The burden of kidney disease among Indigenous Australians: The role of research in moving from aggregate statistics to effective intervention
Seminar
In November 2000, at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sotheby's auctioned four collaborative paintings created by senior Pintupi Luritja men and women from the communities of Kintore, Mt Liebig and Kiwirrkurra. Their intent was to raise funds to set up a dialysis service in Kintore. What prompted these…
Raphael Lemkin in the Outback: The state project to eliminate homeland living in remote Indigenous Australia
Seminar
In the 1970s Aboriginal people were permitted and sometimes assisted to decentralise to live and struggle to make a living on their ancestral lands. But in the last decade homeland living has been discursively demeaned and policies have been put in place to undermine the possibility for…
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Engagement in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Employment Outcomes: Trends, Challenges and Strategies' Webinar
Seminar
Researcher Georgina Windley from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) will facilitate a panel discussion with leading researchers and a VET training manager. The webinar will pull together the latest research, including research by CAEPR…
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Seminar
In the age of 'big data' debates about 'data sovereignty' have been dominated by national governments and multinational corporations focused on issues of access and legal jurisdiction. Missing from those conversations has been consideration of the inherent rights and interests of indigenous peoples…
Opportunities and challenges in evaluating national public health programs delivered through regional service organisations
Seminar
Local involvement in how programs are delivered and implemented is supported by many working in community development and increasingly seen as important in public health, particularly in preventive health programs. Yet there are challenges for national program evaluation when decisions on…
Aboriginal land recovery in NSW: Mechanisms and Prospects from 2017
Seminar
New provisions in the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (ALRA) are forecast to see a six-fold escalation in land recovery from 2017 through negotiated settlement. Criticism of the slow and protracted native title determination in New South Wales will also see more expeditious processing of claims…
Evaluating Narragunnawali, Reconciliation in Schools: Initial Results
Seminar
This presentation will focus on initial results from the evaluation of a major new initiative being run by Reconciliation Australia. Narragunnawali is a word from the language of the Ngunnawal people meaning alive, wellbeing, coming together and peace. Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Schools and…