First Nation Development Futures in Australia: Risks, Opportunities and Self-Determined Innovations
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Recording available here. Overview All development involves change—by its nature it is experimental and unsettling. This means the collective decisions of First Nations about future development are both brave and risky. In 1986 — twenty years before its Declaration on the Rights of…
The development of an UNDRIP Assessment Tool for the Fred Hollows Foundation
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Recording available here Abstract: When the Fred Hollows Foundation decided to commence work on their next Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Reconciliation Australia gave the Foundation a challenge: to apply the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to its…
Re-Centering Remote Education: Community-led, strengths-based approaches
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Recording: availabke here Abstract: For more than a decade, policy and funding priorities have worked against the delivery of quality secondary education programs in remote Australia. The legacy of this is a cohort of youth and young adults who have opted out of school education and been…
Take-home packs, household learning leaders and social media misinformation: Australian First Nations children & COVID-19
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Recording available here Abstract Typically, schools are overflowing with sirens, bustling classrooms and children playing. However, this all changed with the global pandemic as education delivery was reformed to align with federal, state and territory regulations. For most Australian…
The wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis
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Recording available here About The coronavirus pandemic has caused the most significant social and economic disruptions in Australia in nearly a century. Following the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, commonwealth and state/territory governments quickly moved to impose mandatory…
The shadow pandemic: violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Find the recording here! About During the pandemic, the federal, state, and territory governments took measures to protect the Australian public from the spread of COVID-19. The vast majority of Australians showed their willingness to prioritise collective welfare over individual rights by…
Energy insecurity during temperature extremes in remote Australia
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Find the recording here! About Indigenous communities in remote Australia face dangerous temperature extremes. These extremes are associated with increased risk of mortality and ill health. For many households, temperature extremes increase both their reliance on the services that access…