scholarly journals Diabetes during pregnancy and birthweight trends among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia over 30 years

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 100005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J.L. Hare ◽  
Federica Barzi ◽  
Jacqueline A. Boyle ◽  
Steven Guthridge ◽  
Roland F. Dyck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory

‘Japan Fight. Aboriginal People Fight. European People Fight’: Yolngu Stories from World War II

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (S1) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Noah Riseman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
World War ◽  
Prisoner Of War ◽  
War Effort ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Australian Soil

Abstract Did you know that a Bathurst Islander captured the first Japanese prisoner of war on Australian soil? Or that a crucifix saved the life of a crashed American pilot in the Gulf of Carpentaria? These are excerpts from the rich array of oral histories of Aboriginal participation in World War II. This paper presents “highlights” from Yolngu oral histories of World War II in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Using these stories, the paper begins to explore some of the following questions: Why did Yolngu participate in the war effort? How did Yolngu see their role in relation to white Australia? In what ways did Yolngu contribute to the security of Australia? How integral was Yolngu assistance to defence of Australia? Although the answers to these questions are not finite, this paper aims to survey some of the Yolngu history of World War II.

scholarly journals Funding of Northern Territory public hospitals

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Fisher ◽  
Allen Ruben
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Data ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
Lengths Of Stay ◽  
Land Mass

The Northern Territory is Australia's third largest jurisdiction by land mass but it is the smallest by population. By proportion it accommodates the largest number of Aboriginal people who suffer the greatest burden of disease with highmorbidity, mortality, admission rates and lengths of stay. Output based funding by DRG is based on the 'typical' Australian population which is not that of the Northern Territory. The NT has had to significantly modify its approach to funding to meet the needs of its population. The current funding method based on detailed analyses of clinical data with small numbers may be inappropriate where simpler methods tailored to the NT population could suffice.

scholarly journals ‘Little Gunshots, but with the blaze of lightning’: Xavier Herbert, Visuality and Human Rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Jane Lydon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
World War ◽  
Major Work ◽  
The North ◽  
Significant Difference

Xavier Herbert published his bestseller Capricornia in 1938, following two periods spent in the Northern Territory. His next major work, Poor Fellow My Country (1975), was not published until thirty-seven years later, but was also set in the north during the 1930s. One significant difference between the two novels is that by 1975 photo-journalism had become a significant force for influencing public opinion and reforming Aboriginal policy. Herbert’s novel, centring upon Prindy as vulnerable Aboriginal child, marks a sea change in perceptions of Aboriginal people and their place in Australian society, and a radical shift toward use of photography as a means of revealing the violation of human rights after World War II. In this article I review Herbert’s visual narrative strategies in the context of debates about this key historical shift and the growing impact of photography in human rights campaigns. I argue that Poor Fellow My Country should be seen as a textual re-enactment, set in Herbert’s and the nation’s past, yet coloured by more recent social changes that were facilitated and communicated through the camera’s lens. Like all re-enactments, it is written in the past conditional: it asks, what if things had been different? It poses a profound challenge to the state project of scientific modernity that was the Northern Territory over the first decades of the twentieth century.

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

2009 ◽  
Vol 190 (10) ◽  
pp. 532-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Q Li ◽  
Natalie J Gray ◽  
Steve L Guthridge ◽  
Sabine L M Pircher
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Avoidable Hospitalisation

scholarly journals Working with Aboriginal young people in sexual health research: a peer research methodology in remote Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Stephen Bell ◽  
Peter Aggleton ◽  
Andrew Lockyer ◽  
Tellisa Ferguson ◽  
Walbira Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Remote Setting

In a context of ongoing colonization and dispossession in Australia, many Aboriginal people live with experiences of health research that is done “on” rather than “with” or “by” them. Recognizing the agency of young people and contributing to Aboriginal self-determination and community control of research, we used a peer research methodology involving Aboriginal young people as researchers, advisors, and participants in a qualitative sexual health study in one remote setting in the Northern Territory, Australia. We document the methodology, while critically reflecting on its benefits and limitations as a decolonizing method. Findings confirm the importance of enabling Aboriginal young people to play a central role in research with other young people about their own sexual health. Future priorities include developing more enduring forms of coinvestigation with Aboriginal young people beyond data collection during single studies, and support for young researchers to gain formal qualifications to enhance future employability.

Avoidable hospitalisation in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

2009 ◽  
Vol 191 (7) ◽  
pp. 411-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Q Li ◽  
Natalie J Gray ◽  
Steve L Guthridge ◽  
Sabine L M Pircher
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Avoidable Hospitalisation

Aboriginal Studies at Year 12 in South Australia and Northern Territory

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Adele Pring
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Form ◽  
Senior Secondary

Aboriginal Studies is now being taught at Year 12 level in South Australian schools as an externally moderated, school assessed subject, accredited by the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia.It is a course in which students learn from Aboriginal people through their literature, their arts, their many organizations and from visiting Aboriginal communities. Current issues about Aborigines in the media form another component of the study.

scholarly journals Critical Illness and its Impact on the Aboriginal People of the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Critical Illness ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Severity Of Illness ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Aboriginal Population ◽  
Aboriginal Patient ◽  
Chronic Health Problems

The Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) services a relatively large and geographically remote Aboriginal population who account for 45% of intensive care unit admissions. Critical illness in the Aboriginal population is different from the non-Aboriginal population of the “Top End” of the Northern Territory. The critically ill Aboriginal patient is younger, has more chronic health problems and a higher severity of illness at presentation. The city and the hospital environment are foreign to many Aboriginal patients retrieved from remote communities and this adds to the stress of the critical illness. English is a second, third or fourth language for many Aboriginal people from remote communities and strategies must be put in place to ensure informed consent and effective communication are achieved. Despite the increased severity of illness and complexity, the Royal Darwin Hospital ICU achieves the same survival rates for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal patients.

Petrol Sniffing What the Teacher Ought to Do

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
D. McClay ◽  
M. Christie
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Aboriginal Children ◽  
Major Drug

People under pressure often turn to drugs to help them cope with their difficulties. This seems to happen in nearly every culture in the world. Alcohol is the major drug used in Australia – by all the racial groups. Aboriginal children under pressure often turn to petrol sniffing. The habit seems to have been introduced to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory during World War II. What to do about it is a worrying problem because it often seems that the harder we try, the worse it gets.

Legislating for Land Rights in Australia

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Land Trusts ◽  
Terra Nullius ◽  
History Of ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
The Government

A commitment in applied anthropological policy work to maximising cultural appropriateness or even to supporting what indigenous people say they want is not always possible. This proved to be the case in connection with formulating recommendations for land rights legislation in Australia's Northern Territory. Until 1992 the only rights in land that Aboriginal people had as the original occupiers of the continent were statutory (that is, through acts of state and federal parliaments). No treaties were signed with Aboriginal people and until that date the continent was treated as terra nullius, unowned, at the time of colonisation in 1788. From early on in the history of European colonisation, however, areas of land had been set aside for the use and benefit of Aboriginal people. These reserves were held by the government, or by one of a number of religious bodies that ministered to Aboriginal people, usually supported by government funding. Beginning with South Australia in 1966 all of the states, except Tasmania, have passed legislation that gives varying degrees of control of these reserves to land trusts governed by Aboriginal people. Each of these pieces of legislation had/have different shortcomings which included some or all of the following: the total area that had been reserved was small; the powers granted over the land were limited; the majority of the Aboriginal population did not benefit from the legislation; and none of them addressed the issue of self-determination. In 1973 a Royal Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights, with a single Commissioner, Mr. Justice Woodward, was established by the newly elected Federal Labor government, the first in 23 years. It was planned that it would deal with the continent but that it would begin by focusing on the Northern Territory which until 1978 was administered by the Federal government. At the time there were 25,300 Aboriginal people in the Territory making up 25% of the population.

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