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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Indigenous Australians"”.
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Researching Indigenous Australians in Tourism
… central focus of this work is 'Participation by Indigenous Australians in Tourism Ventures', a theme that has much relevance to the contemporary tourism industry and the Indigenous people of Australia. It is being pursued with appropriate respect for Indigenous values and customs, and is offered …
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Faith, politics and reconciliation: the Roman Catholic Church, New Zealand Maori and indigenous Australians
… to the widening mainstream of public opinion on indigenous policy. Although the Second Vatican Council required attention to the relationship between religious ends and political means, the changing secular environment was a significant factor in encouraging public advocacy in support of …
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Evaluation of acceptance and efficiency of exercise for Indigenous Australians to benefit physiological, anthropometric and metabolic syndrome outcomes
… a much-understudied area of how the Australian Indigenous community perceives physical activity and the beneficial effects for improving health outcomes. The PhD will be made up of three studies: 1) To design an exercise prescription that is culturally appropriate and specifically addresses the …
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Whose story is it anyway?: An explanation of how `academic literacy' was constructed in a university transition course for Indigenous Australians during a period of organisational change
… in a university preparation course designed for Indigenous Australians thought about what `academic literacy' meant. Lecturers were asked to consider the relationships between the meanings of `academic literacy' , curriculum, and the considerable problems the Course was facing in order to remain …
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“Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out”: The Acknowledgement of Indigenous First World War Service in Australian and New Zealand National Commemorations, 1918-2019
This thesis explores the extent to which Indigenous Australian and Māori First World War service has been acknowledged in national sites of commemoration in Australia and New Zealand over the past century. Between 1918 and 2019, the national commemorative landscapes in Australia and New Zealand …
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Contractual Coloniality: Strategic State Intervention in Aboriginal Governance
… interventions in the delivery of services to Indigenous Australians employ rationalities congruent with colonial-settler governance. The Koori Services Improvement Strategy in the Australian State of Victoria is a case in point. Detailed examination of this strategy - understood as a set of …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
The need for non-Indigenous Australians to be more cognisant of the entangled histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, has reverberated through a range of recent reviews of Australian higher education and policy documents which recommend better understanding of Indigenous Australia …
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Beyond Black and White: Transformative Learning and Educator Practice in Australian Indigenous Studies
The need for non-Indigenous Australians to be more cognisant of the entangled histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, has reverberated through a range of recent reviews of Australian higher education and policy documents which recommend better understanding of Indigenous Australia …
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Black and White on Black: Whiteness and Masculinity in the Works of Three Australian Writers - Thomas Keneally, Colin Thiele, and Patrick White.
… In this study I explore four depictions of Indigenous Australians by white Australian writers. Thomas Keneally's <em>The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith</em> (1972) depicts a half-caste Aborigine's attempt to enter white society in a racially-antipathetic world that precipitates his ruin. …
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Stone Chips to Silicon Chips: A Grounded Theory of Information and Communication Technology adoption in Australian Indigenous households rural, urban and remote.
… and 2006 Australian Census data demonstrate that Indigenous Australians are 69% less likely to access the Internet at home than the rest of the Australian population. This study examines the factors affecting the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies in Australian Indigenous …
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Stone Chips to Silicon Chips: A Grounded Theory of Information and Communication Technology adoption in Australian Indigenous households rural, urban and remote.
… and 2006 Australian Census data demonstrate that Indigenous Australians are 69% less likely to access the Internet at home than the rest of the Australian population. This study examines the factors affecting the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies in Australian Indigenous …
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'This subject will not go away': Memorialising frontier conflict in South Australia
… become more visible and more contentious as non-Indigenous Australians have increasingly come to re-evaluate the country’s colonial history. Attempts to acknowledge histories of frontier conflict in recent years have seen memorials emerge at the local level, often only after significant debate …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… the alternative historical practices of Indigenous Australians. The conventional practice of academic history, which is based on time-oriented chronology, teleology, and historicity, is only one mode of exploring the past. My thesis explores Aboriginal historians' narratives, which are …
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Cross-culturalizing history : journey to the Gurindji way of historical practice
… the alternative historical practices of Indigenous Australians. The conventional practice of academic history, which is based on time-oriented chronology, teleology, and historicity, is only one mode of exploring the past. My thesis explores Aboriginal historians' narratives, which are …
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Do no harm: decolonising Aboriginal health research
… health? Exploring this question from an Indigenous perspective required the development of a methodological approach that I personally undertook as a journey, as both a participant and researcher. This methodology was informed by a decolonisation framework, used Indigenous critical theory …
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Optimisation of Surgical Timing in Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease
… disease has been essentially eradicated from nonindigenous populations in Australia, Indigenous Australians continue to have some of the highest rates of rheumatic heart disease in the world. The mortality and morbidity associated with rheumatic heart disease primarily results from complications …
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Faith in Violence: Race and the Punitive Paradigm
… characterized by conspicuous ethnic, racial, and indigenous disproportion, comparable to that of the United States. Indeed, no country can match US incarceration-rates; however, in terms of demographic divergence between the incarcerated and non-incarcerated population, the United States is far …
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“Horatio Dawn” and “Invisibly somewhere between the two clauses”
… seen as forcing Dampier to distance himself from Indigenous people in order to appear “untainted” by other races. An examination of earlier drafts shows how these references have consciously been edited out. In his next book, A Voyage to New Holland, Dampier again removed references to violence; …
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Bacterial colonization of the nasopharynx in paediatric patients with acute respiratory viral symptoms
… involved those at greatest risk, such as indigenous Australians and those with chronic diseases and other underlying risk factors. More recently, universal vaccination was introduced for children, using immunogenic protein-conjugated capsular polysaccharide antigens of the most common …