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Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory Monitoring Report, January-June 2012, Part one

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Authors: Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

The Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory National Partnership Agreement ceased on the 30 June 2012. This is the last Monitoring Report published under this agreement. It provides data […]

What Does Sanctioned Traditional Punishment Look Like?

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Authors: Lechleitner, Kenneth
Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of NSW

This paper considers the possibilities for the Australian Westminster System of law and Australia?s Aboriginal peoples? law (?Tnangkarra?) to work alongside each other. The paper briefly describes how the Tnangkarra […]

Governing Crime in the Intervention

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Authors: Anthony, Thalia, Billings, Peter
Publishers: UTS: Law Research Paper

Whilst sexual assault and child abuse within the Northern Territory Aboriginal communities receives the most attention from the media and from government programs, it is the lower level-type offending that […]

Whole of Strategy Evaluation of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy: Future Directions for the PSS: Final Report

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Authors: Marcus, David, Shaw, Gillian
Publishers: Origin Consulting

This final report, completed in January 2013, provides a high-level strategic review of the implementation of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy (PSS) since its inception in 2005 and provides guidance on […]

Two Way Learning & Culturally Appropriate Mediation Training in Remote Communities

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Authors: Crawford, Will, Thwaites, Rohan
Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of NSW

This article considers the outcomes of mediation training in the remote Northern Territory communities of Gunbalanya/Oenpelli and Lajamanu in 2012, in collaboration with the NT Government. The preliminary outcomes indicate […]

A longitudinal study of influences on alcohol consumption and related harm in Central Australia: with a particular emphasis on the role of price

Resources Oct,2012

Authors: Symons, Martyn, Gray, Dennis, Chikritzhs, Tanya, Skov, Steven J, Saggers, Sherry, Boffa, John, Low, Jennifer
Publishers: Curtin University, National Drug Research Institute

The aim of this project was to examine and report on the impact of various alcohol control measures on levels of alcohol consumption and related harm in Central Australia for […]

Final Report: Final Evaluation of Youth in Communities for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Resources June,2012

Authors: Courage Partners
Publishers: Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

Federal Government funding was provided for the Youth in Communities (YIC) program for 2009/10 – 2011/12 under the Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory National Partnership Agreement. The YIC […]

Addressing the ‘crime problem’ of the Northern Territory Intervention: alternate paths to regulating minor driving offences in remote Indigenous communities

Resources June,2012

Authors: Anthony, Thalia, Blagg, Harry
Publishers: Criminology Research Advisory Council

This study examines the incidence of Indigenous driving offending in the Northern Territory since 2006 and assesses the effectiveness of law enforcement in addressing this crime. The research method has […]

Massive prevalence of hearing loss among Aboriginal inmates in the Northern Territory

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Authors: Vanderpoll, Troy, Howard, Damien
Publishers: Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales

Acting superintendent of Darwin prison, Mr Bob Miller, was prompted by concerns raised in the 2010 Senate Hearing Health Report, to initiate an investigation into hearing loss among adult inmates […]

Foster and kinship care recruitment campaigns : a review and synthesis of the literature

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Authors: McGuinness, Kate, Arney, Fiona
Publishers: Centre for Child Development and Education, Menzies School of Health Research

This paper provides background information about the best ways of increasing the number of high quality foster and kinship carers in the Northern Territory (NT) by considering: what characteristics of […]