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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Aboriginal Australia"”.
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"Variations of the rainbow" : mysticism, history and aboriginal Australia in Patrick White
… Voss is the first of the novels to examine Aboriginal culture. This culture is made available through the visionary artist, a European figure who, as seer, has access to the Aboriginal deities. European and Aboriginal philosophies are blended at the level of symbol, making possible the …
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Looking after country : examining conditions for effective community-based natural resource management in Aboriginal Australia
Over the last few decades Aboriginal land management (ALM) has received increased interest and investment as a strategy to both conserve Australia's environment and assist in improving Aboriginal livelihoods. Yet thirty years of international community based natural resource management (CBNRM) …
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Looking after country : examining conditions for effective community-based natural resource management in Aboriginal Australia
Over the last few decades Aboriginal land management (ALM) has received increased interest and investment as a strategy to both conserve Australia's environment and assist in improving Aboriginal livelihoods. Yet thirty years of international community based natural resource management (CBNRM) …
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The process and importance of writing Aboriginal fiction for young adult readers: exegesis accompanying the novel "Calypso Summers"
… explores issues associated with being an Aboriginal youth including complexities surrounding identity formation and the role and impact of engagement with Aboriginal culture on the well-being of contemporary Aboriginal youth. The story follows twenty-year-old “Calypso Summers” who adopts …
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Competing "Host" Discourses: Appropriation of Australian Aboriginal Culture in the Tourism Borderzones
… representations can perpetuate stereotypes of Aboriginal people for outsiders, while simultaneously influencing how those living within the tourism destination see themselves and their place in society (cf., Adams, 2006; Little, 2004). This project examines the Australian tourism industry and …
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Between surfaces: a psychodynamic approach to cultural identity, cultural difference and reconciliation in Australia
… this enquiry came from two experiences with an Aboriginal Other, which prompted the initial research questions: “Why does the existence of an Aboriginal Other threaten a white sense of belonging?” and; “What are the mechanisms and purposes of aggression towards, or exclusion of, that which …
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Rripangu Yirdaki: Negotiating musical identities in a northeast Arnhem Land tourism business
… initiated, owned, and maintained by one Aboriginal family in the far north of Australia. Because of their work as Aboriginal musicians in the tourism industry, members of the Gurruwiwi family are identified, and sometimes self-identify, with common perceptions of Aboriginal enterprises as …
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Suicide in South Australia: specific features, trends and reasons for disparities in numbers
… suicide among medicolegal deaths in South Australia, to compare this with South Australian data on national registers and to delineate the characteristics of such cases. A manual and electronic search was undertaken of pathology files at Forensic Science SA in Adelaide, Australia, for cases …
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Prisoner, prison and situational characteristics and their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offending recorded by a sample of prisoners within Western Australian prisons
… However, no studies have been conducted in Australia, and therefore no studies have included Aboriginal prisoners in their prisoner samples. In addition, the differences in regard to legislation pertaining to prison offending between jurisdictions is also of importance when considering the …