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Acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia and Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand
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This guide is to provide ANZCA staff and members with information on using respectful and inclusive language and terminology and recognising the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of Country at official college meetings and events in Australia and ngā iwi Māori as the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa.
Cultural Safety in Health: Professional Practice, Pedagogy and Research
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Cultural safety seeks to address power and privilege imbalances in institutions and throughout society. It addresses systemic, scientific, and personal racism, which create and sustain health inequalities in neo-colonial societies such as Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. This book aims to provide health students, their educators and practicing health professionals with an in-depth understanding of cultural safety and guidance on developing the key skills required to ensure culturally safe and respectful care in diverse health professions.
Cultural Safety in Trauma-Informed Practice from a First Nations Perspective: Billabongs of Knowledge
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Designed by and for Australian Indigenous peoples, this text explores psychological trauma and healing, and the clinical and cultural implications of the impacts of colonization, through an Indigenous lens. This book is essential reading for Indigenous practitioners and service providers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is also a valuable resource for students likely to work with First Nations' peoples within a broad range of health and social science disciplines.
Culture, Diversity and Health in Australia: Towards Culturally Safe Health Care
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This text, drawing on experts from a range of disciplines, including public health, nursing and sociology, shows how the theory and practice of cultural safety can inform effective health care practices with all kinds of diverse populations.
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
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Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating, and storing, behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence in Dark Emu comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance
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This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing relationships between states, indigenous peoples and industries in the Arctic and beyond. It offers insights from Nordic countries, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Russia to present different systems of resource governance and practices of managing industry-indigenous peoples' relations in the mining industry, renewable resource development and aquaculture.
Indigenous Referencing Guidance for Indigenous Knowledges.
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The Indigenous Knowledge Attribution Toolkit (IKAT) will be of particular use to students and library staff. This includes a decision tree to provide guidance for assessing content and attribution, as well as a citation and referencing guide with examples that include Indigenous attribution.
INNOVATE Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP): January 2023 – January 2025
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LIME Good Practice Case Studies: Volume 4 2017
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The LIME Good Practice Case Studies Resources showcase examples of good practice in Indigenous medical and health education from schools and specialist colleges across Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
(Burda-burda Balayi) Health Professionals and Indigenous Health: Working at the Interface
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Indigenous voices and perspectives on how to provide positive outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare. Burda-burda Balayi Health Professionals and Indigenous Health: Working at the Interface presents a strengths-based focus to help students and practitioners build their understanding of self and others in professional practice to ensure better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The text includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous contexts of history, society and culture, and topics include cultural safety, truth telling, colonialism and shared futures. This book critically examines dominant Western health frameworks that essentialises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and health. By providing historical and social context and covering issues affecting public health policy and primary health practice, it aims to diminish conscious bias and racism. With a strong emphasis on research-based Indigenous voices and perspectives, this book provides a culturally safe framework for you to understand the importance of treating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples effectively and the knowledge needed to do so.
2017 AMA Report Card on Indigenous Health: a national strategic approach to ending Chronic Otitis media and its life long impacts in Indigenous communities
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An annual series.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patient Care Guideline
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Health and Wellbeing
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Health prepares nursing and allied health students for health care practice among Indigenous Australian communities and encourages best clinical practice and skill development. With its focus on cultural competence, community and cultural safety, the text examines theoretical concepts and specific health domains, and provides valued insight into the skills required of health professionals. The text advances the strengths-based approach by highlighting the strengths in communities and health, rather than the deficiencies. The experiences and expert knowledge of the author team are combined with a diverse range of case examples to equip students with an understanding of cultural competencies and to prepare them for the diverse and alternative approaches to health care they will need to adopt when working with Indigenous Australians and community groups.
AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research
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The purpose of the AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research (the AIATSIS Code or this Code) is to promote ethical and responsible practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research in Australia, to increase the contribution of Indigenous knowledge to Australian research, to ensure research has a positive impact for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and to continuously improve the quality and standards of research in this area.
Australia's Rural, Remote and Indigenous Health, 3e
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Australia's Rural, Remote and Indigenous Health 3e is a practical guide to the delivery of health care in rural and remote Australia. Drawing on personal experiences of rural practitioners, historical accounts, literature analysis and epidemiology, it discusses the economic, social and political forces that shape healthcare in rural and remote Australia.
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Terminology
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Guidance for staff on appropriate terminology when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities, and for use in all relevant policy, planning, programs, resource development and published materials.
Community-Led Research: Walking New Pathways Together
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The concept of community-led research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and everything in between. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, this book considers what it means to participate in community-led research, for both communities and researchers. How can researchers and communities work together well, and how can research be reimagined using the knowledge of First Nations peoples and other communities to ensure it remains relevant, sustainable, socially just and inclusive?
CREATE The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Quality Appraisal Tool: Companion Document
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CREATE established a Methods Group that developed a Quality Appraisal Tool to enable researchers to assess the quality of studies not only through a scientific lens but also through an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural lens. The Quality Appraisal Tool was published in 2020.
Critical Conversations in Kaupapa Māori
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Kaupapa Māori theory and methodology developed over twenty years ago and have since become influential in social research, practice and policy areas. This collection furthers knowledge about kaupapa Māori by examining its effects over the decades, identifying and discussing its conventions and boundaries and reflecting on kaupapa Māori in social and educational research and practice.
Deeble Issues Brief No. 60 - Measuring What Really Matters for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples – Racism and Cultural Safety in Healthcare
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Institutional racism within Australian hospitals is a critical public health issue that profoundly impacts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This racism is not merely a collection of isolated incidents; it’s a systemic problem that affects patients at both an individual and societal level. Experiences of racism and culturally unsafe care creates lack of safety in the system which contributes to poorer health outcomes, lifelong harm, and in some cases, preventable deaths.
While tools exist to assess institutional racism, they are not consistently applied, which limits accountability and progress.
This Issues Brief calls for a fundamental change in approach which moves away from fragmented, superficial measures toward a unified, data-driven, and Indigenous-led strategy.
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
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Contemplative yet audacious, The End of Race Politics is necessary reading for anyone who questions the race orthodoxies of our time. Hughes argues for a return to the ideals that inspired the American Civil Rights movement, showing how our departure from the colorblind ideal has ushered in a new era of fear, paranoia, and resentment marked by draconian interpersonal etiquette, failed corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, and poisonous race-based policies that hurt the very people they intend to help.
Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart
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First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture
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What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deep understanding of the expertise, wisdom and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians.
For thousands of generations the wellbeing of Australia’s First Peoples was grounded in the sacred lands of Mother Earth. Good health occurred naturally because lifestyle and diet were connected to Country and culture. Colonisation damaged this connection, but much is being done to rebuild it.
Health explores concepts that are not tied to Western practices, as it delves into birthing, end-of-life care and other Indigenous cultural rituals. The authors highlight the role of Aboriginal leadership and Eldership in decision making about health care and explore the strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resistance and resilience.
Through their storytelling and their decades of research and health practice, Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades and Fiona Stanley show how Aboriginal knowledges foster a path for self-determined healthy futures.
Health Inequities in Australia: A Scoping Review on the Impact of Racism on Indigenous and Other Negatively Racialised Communities’ Health Outcomes and Healthcare Access
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Commissioned by the Australian Human Rights Commission, this scoping review investigates how racism affects health outcomes and access to healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and other negatively racialised communities. It provides evidence-based recommendations to support the National Anti-Racism Framework and drive systemic reform and is also an education piece for practitioners in the health sector.
Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy
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This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs. In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analytics to inform their policies and decision-making.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies: Local Solutions and Global Opportunities
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Bringing together researchers from geographically, culturally, and linguistically diverse regions, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies offers guidance and lessons learned from research projects in and with Indigenous communities around the world. This edited volume explores issues of power, representation, participation, and accountability in studies involving Indigenous peoples and draws on contributors' reflections of their own varied experiences conducting collaborative research in distinct yet related fields.
An Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Cultural Protocols and Perspectives
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This document provides a guide to appropriate and respectful behaviour with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is intended to give RACGP members and staff background information and guidance on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, along with an understanding of important protocols and other relevant cultural issues. It can be used to guide the RACGP’s overall engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities and organisations in the improvement of their health and wellbeing.
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
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Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over twenty-five years working as an antiracist educator, she moves the conversation forward.
Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment and accountability. Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice, and offers people of colour an 'insider's' perspective which may be helpful for navigating whiteness.
Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Status, 2017
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The Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status (Overview) aims to provide a comprehensive summary of the most recent indicators of the health and current health status of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Perioperative Mortality in New Zealand: Fifth report of the Perioperative Mortality Review Committee (the POMRC). Report to the Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand
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This report presents information on perioperative mortality in New Zealand during 2009–2013 for two new clinical areas: 30-day mortality following operations and procedures under general anaesthesia and day-of-the week mortality. As part of the POMRC’s continued surveillance of perioperative mortality over time, rates for a number of clinical areas and procedures included in previous reports are presented here for 2009–2014.
Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing
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This book provides a reliable and convenient source of information for policymakers, academics and students, and allows readers to make informed decisions regarding the wellbeing of Indigenous populations. It is also a useful resource for non-government organizations to gain insight into relevant global factors for the development of stronger and more effective international policies to improve the lives of Indigenous communities. improve the lives of Indigenous communities.
Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
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This groundbreaking study examines the social and political circumstances that have led to the "Fourth World" health standards of Australia's Indigenous population. Providing a systematic overview of the relationship between the social and political environment and health, leading researchers discuss the causes behind poor health outcomes and outline how such programs can be successful while reflecting on the long-term health effects that dispossession, colonial rule, and racism have had on the Indigenous people.
Teaching Professional Attitudes and Basic Clinical Skills to Medical Students: A Practical Guide
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First of its kind, concise, easy to read resource. Written by an accomplished clinical teacher. Covers full range of topics related to teaching ideal attitudes and basic clinical skills.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
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A practical, crystallising guide for how white people can change the way they communicate and fight racism
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction.
Robin DiAngelo coined the term 'White Fragility' in 2011 to describe this process and is here to show us how it serves to uphold the system of white supremacy. Using knowledge and insight gained over decades of running racial awareness workshops, she shows us how we can start having more honest conversations, listen to each other better and react to feedback with grace and humility. It is not enough to simply hold abstract progressive views and condemn the obvious racists on social media - change starts with us all at a practical, granular level, and it is time for all white people to take responsibility for relinquishing their own racial supremacy.
Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice, 2e
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This text is intended for staff and students and all health practitioners working in areas that support Indigenous mental health and wellbeing. It examines issues across the life course, with a greater focus on children and young people; the significant impacts of mental health in the justice system; the cultural determinants of social and emotional wellbeing and intellectual and developmental disabilities. It includes holisitic models of care, as well as interdisciplinary and inter-professional approaches and working with carers to deliver an even more robust text and resource.
For a comprehensive list of titles, see: Indigenous health
Aboriginal Healthworkers
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Aboriginal healthworkers are employed by Australian primary health care services to help bridge the gap between the Western medical clinic and their own kin. Much controversy surrounds what they can and should be doing. Aboriginal Healthworkers looks at what healthworkers do, what they think about their work, and how their work is perceived by doctors, nurses, social workers, transport workers, and, crucially, their Aboriginal clients. The author's unique contribution brings ethnographic methods to his study of a group of urban healthworkers, and allows their voices to be heard. Healthworkers speak frankly about the state of Aboriginal primary health care in Australia. Daily visits to homes of families whose health continues to be eroded by the historical legacy of exclusion, cultural oppression, and racism highlight the serious lack of professional recognition and support. In response, this powerful book portrays the unique healing practice offered by Aboriginal healthworkers and urges that practical steps be taken to bolster their holistic approach.
Aboriginal primary health care : an evidence-based approach, 3e
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A comprehensive treatment of primary health care issues affecting Aboriginal people in Australia. The book aims to assist those working in the field of Aboriginal health to understand the evidence base behind primary care interventions. Recommendations for ways of implementing various measures are discussed.
Another Day in the Colony
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In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of ‘the Aboriginal problem’, she theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
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Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors speak from the heart - sometimes calling for empathy, oftentimes challenging stereotypes, always demanding respect.
Health Care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural Safety in Practice, 3e
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This text offers a comprehensive framework for creating a culturally safe environment and enhancing health outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Through case studies, discussions, reflections and critiques of health issues in Australia today, Health Care and Indigenous Australians offers a starting point for learning about cultural safety in an Indigenous health context, and is essential for students, academics and practitioners alike.
The Health of Aboriginal Australia
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Improving the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is a longstanding challenge for governments in Australia. While there have been improvements made in some areas since the 1970s overall progress has been slow and inconsistent. The inequality gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and other Australians remains wide and has not been progressively reduced. With a significant proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in younger age groups, there is an additional challenge to programs and services being able to keep up with the future demands of a burgeoning population.
Indigenous Australian health and cultures : an introduction for health professionals
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This new edited volume has been written by a diverse group of health professionals, the majority of whom are Indigenous Australians. A life cycle approach has been adopted, with chapters focusing on pregnancy and birthing through to the care and responsibilities of the elderly. These are bookended by the first chapter on Culture, History and Health which contextualises the subsequent content and the final chapter on future directions following the National Apology.
Indigenous Australians and health : the wombat in the room
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Assists the student reader, through simple and practical strategies, to appreciate and understand the importance of 'getting it right', when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in urban and remote areas. Authors: Toombs & Hampton from University of Queensland.
Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia
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The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia is a unique tool for exploring and understanding the lives and cultures of Australia's First Peoples. An atlas can represent - in graphic form - a pattern of human activities in space and time. This second edition of the award-winning Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia opens a window onto the landscape of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lives, from over 60,000 years ago to the present time.
Psychology and indigenous Australians : foundations of cultural competence
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This book fills an important gap in understanding the psychological impact of colonisation on Indigenous Australians.
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability--and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
Shattering stereotypes : experiences of Australian and Canadian First Nations general practitioners and family doctors
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Ch. 1: Introduction to the book Dr. Aleeta Fejo -- Ch. 2: Dear me Dr. Amy-Lea Perrin -- Ch. 2B: Comments by the editors -- Ch. 3: My father's daughter Dr. Aleeta Fejo -- Ch. 3B: Aleeta's partner -- Ned Elliott's story -- Ch. 4: The days in years Dr. Janelle Trees -- Ch. 4B: Janells' partner -- Claudia Jocher's story -- Ch. 5: Maskihkiwiniwiyân acimowin ewiyacimohstatikohk ôma kakitohskiskinomaksoyan ocih maskihkiwiniwiyân / My story of becoming a Nehiyaw (Cree) medical doctor Dr. James Makokis -- Ch. 5B: Parental dreams & aspirations: what any parent wants for their children Pat & Eugene Makokis -- Ch. 6: Kood jee wee win mesh qui si eq way Dr. Melinda Fowler -- Ch. 7: Reviewing what we have learned and opening new doors Dr. Aleeta Fejo.
The stolen children their stories
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Following the unprecedented demand for the Report on the stolen children which was published by The Human Rights and Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (HEROC) and retailed at $60.00, here are extracts from the Report which are mostly comprised of the actual stories told by the stolen generations of their experiences. These stories are deeply moving and compelling. HEROC will not be printing any more copies of the Report and they have given Carmel Bird the right to use the stories in this book so that they become more accessible to the wider population. Carmel has also written linking text and included a range of comments from politicians, social commentators, actors, artists and other prominent people. At a time when the national attention is sharply focused on the tragedy of the stolen generations, and when various institutions, political leaders and groups are officially apologising for the policies which saw so many young children being taken from their families, this book is extremely timely and quite unique in its content.
Yatdjuligin
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Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of the health care of Indigenous Australians from the perspectives of both the patient and the professional. Designed for both non-Indigenous and Indigenous nurses and midwives who will work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients, this book addresses the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and mainstream health services, and prepares students for practice in a variety of contexts. Fully updated to reflect the latest research, this new edition includes new chapters on child health and mental health. Updated online resources provide lecturers with resources to support student learning. Written by leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwifery academics and practising nurses, Yatdjuligin is an indispensable resource that encourages students to reflect on their values and attitudes towards Indigenous people and health.
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