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Submission To The Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry Into Violence, Abuse And Neglect Against People With Disability In Institutional And Residential Settings, Including The Gender And Age Related Dimensions, And The Particular Situation Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People With Disability, And Culturally And Linguistically Diverse People With Disability (26 June), Linda Roslyn Steele

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This submission is made to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee’s (‘Senate Committee’) inquiry into violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in institutional and residential settings, including the gender and age related dimensions, and the particular situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, and culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability (‘the Senate Inquiry’).

It's Like Going To A Cemetery And Lighting A Candle: Aboriginal Australians, Sorry Business And Social Media, Bronwyn Carlson, Ryan Frazer

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Death and funeral practices are a constant presence in many Aboriginal Australians’ lives— research in some communities found they are eight times more likely to have attended a funeral in the previous 2 years than non- Aboriginal people. This can be explained by two major factors: inordinately high rates of Aboriginal mortality and cultural practices around death (broadly referred to as Sorry Business). Research in other contexts has found traditions once reserved solely for face- to- face interactions are now also taking place online on social media. This paper draws from interviews conducted with Aboriginal social media users from New …

Mediating Tragedy: Facebook, Aboriginal Peoples And Suicide, Bronwyn Carlson, Terri Farrelly, Ryan Frazer, Fiona Borthwick

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Some Australian Aboriginal communities experience suicide rates that are among the highest in the world. They are also, however, avid social media users—approximately 20 percent higher than the national average. This article presents some preliminary findings from a current national study, funded by the Australian Research Council, titled Aboriginal identity and community online: a sociological exploration of Aboriginal peoples’ use of online social media. The purpose of the study is to gain insights into how Aboriginal people utilise and interact on social media, and how these technologies can assist with suicide prevention strategies. It found that Aboriginal people are engaging …

Are They Like Us, Yet? Some Thoughts On Why Religious Freedom Remains Elusive For Aboriginals In North America, Marc V. Fonda

Marc V. Fonda Ph.D.

It is well-documented that European culture differs from that of Aboriginal culture. Perhaps one of the most striking differences is in the relationships and attitudes each group has towards land. For Europeans the land is a commemorative gift of the creator there to be exploited for economic benefit; for Aboriginal peoples, the land is also a gift but one that a continuing extension of the creator’s immanence in which all things are related to one another. The one is an economic relation, the other a spiritual relation that denotes family. When two very different cultural systems encounter one another, there …

Access To Justice For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People, Elena Marchetti

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I would firstly like to pay respect to the traditional and original owners of this land the Mouheneenner people - to pay respect to those that have passed before us and to acknowledge today’s Tasmanian Aboriginal community who are the custodians of this land.

There is a preference these days for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be referred to separately rather than under the umbrella term of ‘Indigenous’ and I will try and honour that preference as much as I can. However, in some circumstances I will be using the term ‘Indigenous’ because it better suits the content …

Engaging Aboriginal Art From The Idea Of Australia, Ian A. Mclean

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In writing the first national history of Australian art Bernard Smith was instrumental in inventing the idea of an Australian national culture. In this respect his histories should be understood in the context of a wider postcolonial – or at least post-empire – discourse that shaped the idea of Australia after the world wars. Galvanizing the many threads of this discourse was the idea of an independent nation state. What role did Aboriginal art have in this discourse? As a committed Marxist Smith had a great deal of sympathy for the downtrodden, including Aborigines. However the idea of the nation …

The Coroner's Recommendation: Fulfilling Its Potential? A Perspective From The Aboriginal Legal Service [Nsw/Act], Raymond Brazil

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Coroners Acts in New South Wales (‘NSW’) and the Australian Capital Territory (‘ACT’) confer on coroners jurisdiction to conduct inquests into certain kinds of death. As the outcome of a hearing, a coroner is tasked by their legislation to reach and record prescribed findings relating to the deceased, their death, and its manner and cause. These determinations enable that death to be registered under the relevant Birth, Deaths and Marriages legislation. If, though, this information can be established from preliminary investigations, a coroner has the discretion to dispense with an inquest hearing, unless the death investigated is of a category …

Identifying Links Between Ecosystem Services And Aboriginal Well-Being And Livelihoods In North Australia: Applying The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Framework, K K. Sangha, J.R.A Butler, Aurelie Delisle, Owen Stanley

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The livelihoods and well-being of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in remote and rural northern Australia are dependent upon the ecosystem services provided by tropical ecosystems. The well-being of all Australian citizens is measured by the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) using socio-economic indicators. In this study we investigated the importance of non-market benefits derived from ecosystem services for Aboriginal well-being. Through a case study with the Mullunburra-Yidinji people in the Wet Tropics, Queensland, we applied the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework to identify the links between ecosystem services and the MA’s six constituents of human well-being. The study demonstrated that …

Of A 'Contested Ground' And An 'Indelible Stain': A Difficult Reconciliation Between Australia And Its Aboriginal History During The 1990s And 2000s, Lorenzo Veracini

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This article proposes an interpretative narrative of the evolution of Aboriginal history as a scholarly enterprise during the 1990s and in more recent years. The 1990s were characterised by attempts to synthesise the interpretative traditions resulting from previous decades of scholarly activity. In more recent years, the debate has shifted dramatically, dealing specifically with the genocidal nature of white Australia's policy towards Aboriginal peoples. The most important passages in this process are associated with the 1992 Mabo decision by the Australian High Court and the publication of the Bringing them home report of 1997.