This project examines the ‘challenge’ of urban Indigenous homelessness to deepen the understandings of the many ‘drivers’ of such homelessness: cultural dispossession, intergenerational poverty, mobility, sociality, cultural responsibilities, and extended […]
The objective of this study was to identify individual and household factors associated with violence among Australian Indigenous women and dependent children. Univariate and multivariate analysis of data from the […]
Aboriginal women comprise almost 50% of all women in custody, and in 1987, Aboriginal women were the victims of 79% of all chargeable homicides in the Northern Territory. They have […]
This review examines published and unpublished literature about interventions designed to combat volatile substance misuse (VSM), defined as the deliberate inhalation of a volatile substance in order to achieve a […]
In November 2001 a forum for government and non-government service providers and community members was held to raise awareness of the problem of volatile substance misuse in Mount Isa and […]
Resources Jun,2005
The findings of a longitudinal research study undertaken in three Indigenous communities in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory reported that there were persistently high rates of cannabis use. It […]
The Mount Theo-Yuendumu Substance Misuse Aboriginal Corporation and associated diversionary programs are the Yuendumu community’s current best strategy for dealing with substance misuse among its young people. This article describes […]
Aboriginal Sentencing Courts are not generally understood as ‘therapeutic jurisprudence’. This essay explores a particular Aboriginal Sentencing Court – the Shepparton Koori Court – from its establishment through its first […]
Resources May,2011
The Winnunga Phase 2 study aims to understand the specific needs of Aboriginal people in the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) in the ACT and the needs of their families. It […]
These are the PowerPoint slides used as the basis of a conference paper presented at the ‘Cultural healing in criminal justice service delivery: an identification of best practice and innovation […]