Complexity in Aboriginal political culture and implications for government policy
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Since the 1970s the federal political response to conditions in many Aboriginal communities has escalated from one of concern to today's rhetoric of 'national emergency'. In the intervening decades, policy had been repeatedly reoriented, from self-determination to mainstreaming, and from…
Climate impacts in remote communities in Northern Australia
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Climate change will increasingly be impacting thousands of Indigenous Australians across northern Australia. But how much do we know about their exposure, sensitivity and capacity to adapt to these changes? This talk aims to tease out these questions and begin to identify what we do know about…
Are racial and ethnic minorities disadvantaged in Australia? Evidence from two randomised field experiments
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We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study in Australia, sending 5000 fake resumes to employers in response to online job advertisements. To denote ethnicity, we randomly changed names on the resumes, using them to denote Anglo-Saxon, Italian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Indigenous…
Aboriginal Poverty: What's social capital got to do with it?
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In this seminar I present some initial findings from a project entitled, 'The Social Context of Indigenous Poverty'. The research involved a series of interviews with Aboriginal people in urban and rural SE Australia on issues of poverty, social capital and social exclusion. In the paper I…
'Yo, turn around and look at Yolngu people, we are here': Indigenous cultural festivals and wellbeing
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This paper is a part of a larger ARC Linkage project, with the Telstra Foundation, that examines the immediate and longer-term impacts of selected Indigenous festivals on community wellbeing. In recent years wellbeing is a concept that has gained salience and urgency, indeed it has become standard…
First Taste: History & Culture in Indigenous Alcohol Use
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The two speakers presenting this public lecture will challenge some of the common beliefs that surround Indigenous Australians and the history of grog, by discussing the findings of the newly released publication First Taste: How Indigenous Australians Learned About Grog by Dr Maggie Brady (…
The Northern Territory Intervention phase one: Mission accomplished in Central Australia?
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The intervention is the most expensive attempt to change the relationship between remote Aboriginal Australia and the white nation, launched with a budget of $1.5 billion dollars. The Commonwealth government sought to restructure community economies, undertake health check programs for children,…