The failures of social policy in Indigenous Australia are legion, to the current point where the
former national government declared a national state of emergency in its own borders. In …

My subject here is the negative effects of over-politicising Indigenous health issues. Such
issues are always partly political, but it is a question of balance. Of course there remain …

A" policy world" is a complex and messy assemblage of peoples, places, events, processes,
procedures, discourses and artefacts (Shore and Wright 2011). In this thesis I explore …

This research grew out of my desire, as a White dietitian, to find the “right” way to work in
Aboriginal health. As a new graduate dietitian working in rural and remote South Australia …

With focus on an all Aboriginal community in rural central-western New South Wales, and
developing the notion of treatment as'a site of negotiation', I illustrate the socially and …

Australia is a world-leader in health promotion, consistently ranking in the best performing
group of countries for healthy life expectancy and health expenditure per person. However …

Despite predictions in the 1970s that, with the advent of Western medicine, there would be
no Aboriginal healers by the end of the twentieth century, maparn continue to be active …

This paper reports on a study that aimed to understand how remote area nurses
implemented primary health care principles in the Australian remote health care setting …

Executive summary The second stage of the Northern Territory component of the Centre for
Appropriate Technology/Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre Project,'Desert …

Introduction Attention to Aboriginal health has become mandatory in Australian medical
education. In parallel, clinical management has increasingly used Aboriginality as an …