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‘Mapping The Digital Gap In The Kimberley', Daniel Featherstone, Lyndon Ormond-Parker

Talking Heads Seminar Series

The Mapping the Digital Gap project is a longitudinal study of digital inclusion, media use and service delivery in 11 remote communities across Australia, including Kalumburu and Djarindjin in the Kimberley region. It is being undertaken through the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society as a supplementary project to the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII).

A new Closing the Gap Target 17 is aimed at closing for the digital inclusion gap between First Nations people and other Australians by 2026. The Mapping the Digital Gap project plays a critical role in tracking the scale and nature of …

'Supporting And Promoting Kimberley Educator Wellbeing.', Liz Kent

Talking Heads Seminar Series

Supporting and promoting Educator wellbeing is particularly important within the Australian rural and remote school context due to multiple challenges and potential stressors faced by Educators, such as professional and personal isolation, culture shock, and exposure to vicarious trauma. These challenges and stressors can compromise the wellbeing and mental health of Educators, which over time can lead to burnout and attrition and impact teaching quality, Educator-student relationships, as well as student learning and wellbeing.

A phenomenological methodological framework was used to understand Educators experiences as well as school psychologists’ perspectives of how to support and promote the wellbeing of Educators …

'Lugger Life & Language', Thomas Saunders, Tom Gannon

Talking Heads Seminar Series

For nearly 100 years lugger boats were essential to the pearling industry in Western Australia, Northern Territory and in the Torres Strait.

Luggers took small crews-often of only 8 men-of many cultures, nationalities out to sea to look for pearl shell off the coast of Broome.

The majority of the crews were Aboriginal and Asian: Malay, Japanese, Koepanger, Filipino and other nationalities who spoke a variety of languages and often little English. This mix resulted in a situation that led to the development of Lugger language called Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin by linguist Komei Hosakawa (Hosakawa 1987).

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‘Wanggajarli Burugun We Are Coming Home’, Dianne Appleby, Sarah Yu, Wynston Shovellor, Kevin Puertollano, Maxine Charlie

Talking Heads Seminar Series

To date, the Yawuru community has found 36 ancestors, scattered across the world, who were removed from Yawuru country during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many have been held and displayed in European museums, treated as curiosities in collections or as objects for scientific studies, often to validate racist theories of the evolution of mankind.

The Wanggajarli Burugun story has been created from mabu liyan. The experience has been curated as a journey, which matches the journey of discovery and understanding, as we uncovered the truth about what happened to our ancestors and begin to reconcile this traumatic history.

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When Data Tell Their Own Story: Measuring Health System Performance Over Time, Jeanette Ward, Janice Bell

Talking Heads Seminar Series

While Australia’s current health care system can seem impossible to comprehend and navigate, one design principle holds for all sustainable health care systems. This is that the first point of call should be at the level of primary care. An effective, equitable and efficient primary care system acts early in response to need, integrates person-centred evidence-based therapeutic interventions and prevents disease progression while knowing the local context including social determinants of health and community resources. Primary care must be accessible to all. This is why the World Health Organisation advocates for significant government investments in a well-trained and geographically distributed …