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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Aboriginal Australians"”.
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Social mobility, Australian rules football and the Aboriginal athlete: a contemporary perspective
Aboriginal Australians clearly occupy a marginal position within the class structure of Australian society. They experience discrimination in all public forums and have differential access to health care and education. As such, it appears that Aborigines are disadvantaged in relation to …
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Community perspectives on vitamin D and bone health in three at-risk populations.
… include people with intellectual disability, Aboriginal Australians and people known to have osteopenia. These studies aim to document the extent of this increase in risk, examine the underlying reasons and evaluate possible treatment options. Methods: Three studies are described: a) A 5 year …
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Geographies of Containment: Logics of Enclosure in Aboriginal and Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia's Northern Territory
… place for policy struggles over migration and Aboriginal communities over the past ten years. The city offers a lens through which to read geopolitical processes of migration and detention, sovereignty and citizenship, and settler colonialism and consider their consequences for people's …
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Children of the Sugar Slaves: Black and Resilient
… the Solomons, and the Torres Strait; and Aboriginal Australians and Australian South Sea Islander kinship groups created through intermarriage of our peoples. The naming an ‘Australian Melanesian region’ is a deliberate gesture to emphasize that the negative impacts of colonialism on SSI …
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A stirring of cultures: The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia
… Australian context through the agencies of Aboriginality, migration and homelessness. While these issues are present and, at times, contentious in the structure of modern Australian society they have roots in past eras of empire building, racism and the movement from agrarianism to …
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Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird
… and subjective violence against the convict and Aboriginal other in historical and cultural discourses. It additionally argues that this elision, alongside Australian discursive myth-making, constitutes an ongoing symbolic violence against the other. Chapter Three returns to the use of …
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Racism and Aboriginal Australian children’s wellbeing: impact and protective factors
… present thesis explores the effects of racism on Aboriginal children’s social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) and Aboriginal pregnant women’s mental health and wellbeing. Identification of protective factors against the effects of racism on child wellbeing was also contemplated. The thesis …
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Writing an alternative Australia : women and national discourse in nineteenth-century literature
… a variety of contemporary voices – postcolonial, Aboriginal, feminist, cultural critics – which see the Australian identity as a prominent topic, not only in the academia but also in everyday culture and politics. Although positioned in different disciplines and influenced by varying histories, …
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The Army and aborigines during World War II
War is an exceptional circumstance. It is an interruption to the normal process of community life and tends temporarily to replace essentially civilian administration with one which is heavily influenced by the military.
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The Army and aborigines during World War II
War is an exceptional circumstance. It is an interruption to the normal process of community life and tends temporarily to replace essentially civilian administration with one which is heavily influenced by the military.
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A grammar of Gunbarlang : with special reference to grammatical relations
Gunbarlang is a noun-classing, verb-prefixing language of Western Arnhem land in the Northern Territory.
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A grammar of Gunbarlang : with special reference to grammatical relations
Gunbarlang is a noun-classing, verb-prefixing language of Western Arnhem land in the Northern Territory.
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Cast(e) in between: A mixed-descent family's coexistence in the West Kimberley 1944-1969
… and laws which defined people by their degree of Aboriginality. These racial categories were reflected in the social and economic relations of full-descent, mixed descent and Gudia people. Coexistence of these groups is analysed by focusing on one extended mixed-descent 'Nygkina' family. During …
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A matter of principle and practice: the sentencing of Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory Supreme Court 1974-1982
When an individual violates the criminal code of a western society, that society responds through the formal agency of the court by sanctioning the individual. The imposition of these sanctions implies the notions of discretion and decision making.
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A matter of principle and practice: the sentencing of Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory Supreme Court 1974-1982
When an individual violates the criminal code of a western society, that society responds through the formal agency of the court by sanctioning the individual. The imposition of these sanctions implies the notions of discretion and decision making.
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Fourth world consumer culture: Emerging consumer cultures in remote Aboriginal communities of North-Western Australia
… material culture and lifestyle of the indigenous Aboriginal people of Australia has undergone dramatic change. Based on qualitative fieldwork in three remote Aboriginal communities in north-western Australia, this study examines the emergence of unique consumer cultures that appear to differ …
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Kin and country: aspects of the use of kinterms in Arandic languages
The central hypothesis of this thesis is that aspects of the use of kinterms in Arandic languages (or dialects) are dependent upon pragmatic factors to do with broad levels of relationship beyond the genealogical, especially those between people and country, and between countries and Dreamings. It …
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