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Indigenous people and the Pilbara mining boom : a baseline for regional participation
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ISBN: 1920942548 1920942408 9781920942540 Year: 2005 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press,

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The largest escalation of mining activity in Australian history is currently underway in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Pilbara-based transnational resource companies recognise that major social and economic impacts on Indigenous communities in the region are to be expected and that sound relations with these communities and the pursuit of sustainable regional economies involving greater Indigenous participation provide the necessary foundations for a social licence to operate. This study examines the dynamics of demand for Indigenous labour in the region, and the capacity of local supply to respond. A special feature of this study is the inclusion of qualitative data reporting the views of local Indigenous people on the social and economic predicaments that face them.


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Making sense of the census : observations of the 2001 enumeration in remote Aboriginal Australia
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ISBN: 9781920942021 1920942025 1920942025 0975122940 Year: 2002 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press,

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Explores some of the problems, successes and policy issues related to the application of the Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in the enumeration of Aboriginal people in remote parts of Australia.


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Australian aborigines : the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the Western district of Victoria, Australia
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ISBN: 051170612X 1108006558 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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James Dawson first published Australian Aborigines in 1881, after deciding that his careful description of the tribes, languages, customs, and characteristics of the indigenous peoples of the western district of Victoria was too bulky for its originally intended publication in a newspaper. Essentially a field-inspired anthropological account of the dwindling Aboriginal population, written before the emergence of anthropology as a formal discipline, Dawson's book draws on his daughter's ability to speak the local languages and attempts a balanced description of a culture he considered ill-used and under-appreciated by white settlers. Minute details about clothing, tools, settlement and beliefs combine to depict a complex society that possessed highly ritualised customs deserving of respect. Dawson also included an extensive vocabulary of words in three indigenous languages that he hoped would facilitate further cross-cultural understanding. His work provides valuable source material for modern researchers in anthropology and linguistics.


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Psychology and Indigenous Australians : effective teaching and practice
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ISBN: 1282414224 9786612414220 1443815063 9781443815062 1847189202 9781847189202 Year: 2008 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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Relations between psychology and the Indigenous peoples of Australia have historically been uneasy and fraught, since psychology has been seen in the past as an agent of colonisation. However, in recent years there have been a number of major initiatives, largely driven by Indigenous psychologists, to improve the relationship and to work towards effective partnership between psychologists and Indigenous Australians to help overcome Indigenous disadvantage and work towards social justice. This book contains edited proceedings of the inaugural Psychology and Indigenous Australians conference held in 2007. There are many exciting papers which illustrate the emergence of a new form of Australian psychology, one that can respond effectively to the needs of Indigenous Australians and people from other cultural groups who live in an increasingly multi-cultural Australia'.


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Aborigines of Victoria : with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania compiled from various sources for the government of Victoria.
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ISBN: 0511695225 1108006566 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Robert Brough Smyth was a successful Melbourne-based mining engineer & civil servant whose international contacts included the geologist Adam Sedgwick. He also spent 16 years as Secretary of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines. In this study of the society & customs of indigenous Australians in the Victoria region, first published in 1878, he combines his own observations with those of others who lived or worked closely with the Aboriginal population. Volume 1 discusses the Aborigines' physical & mental characteristics, demographics, social interaction, rituals, daily life & mythology. Comparisons are made throughout with other indigenous populations, particularly those of nearby Pacific & Indonesian islands. Illustrated throughout, the book takes into account the changes forced on the native population by the arrival of European settlers in the late eighteenth century.

"... Same but different..." vom Umgang mit Vergangenheit : tradition und Geschichte im Alltag, einer nordaustralischen Aborigines-Kommune
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ISBN: 3896452037 Year: 1998 Volume: 108 Publisher: Köln Rüdiger Köppe Verlag


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Aboriginal tribes of Australia : their terrain, environmental controls, distribution, limits, and proper names.
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ISBN: 0520020057 Year: 1974 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press


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Social indicators for Aboriginal governance : insights from the Thamarrurr Region, Northern Territory
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ISBN: 1920942122 1920942130 9781920942120 9781920942137 Year: 2004 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press,


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Working together : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice
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ISBN: 9780977597536 0977597539 Year: 2014 Publisher: [West Perth, WA] : Kulunga Research Network,

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This resource is written for health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing social and emotional wellbeing issues and mental health conditions. It provides information on the issues influencing mental health, good mental health practice, and strategies for working with specific groups. Over half of the authors in this second edition are Indigenous people themselves, reflecting the growing number ?of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experts who are writing and adding to the body of knowledge around mental health and associated areas.

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