scholarly journals “We’re Not Being Treated Like Mothers”: Listening to the Stories of First Nations Mothers in Prison

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Thalia Anthony ◽  
Gemma Sentance ◽  
Larissa Behrendt
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
New South ◽  
Advisory Body ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Women In Prison ◽  
First Nations Women

This article is based on research with over 160 First Nations women in prisons in New South Wales, Australia. The research identified the lived experience of prison sentences for First Nations women in prison. Our research methodology was guided by an Aboriginal women’s advisory body called sista2sista. It was based on the principles of Dadirri in which we listened to the stories of First Nations women in prison on their terms. Consequently, many stories we heard were not about the criminal sentencing process itself, but about the impacts of imprisonment on their capacity to be caregivers in the community, including as mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, teachers and role models. The findings from this research are dual. First, the importance of listening to and empowering First Nations women in prison in policy making that concerns First Nations women. Second, the need to decarcerate First Nations mothers and listen and respond to their needs, expectations, priorities and aspirations, to ensure they are supported in fulfilling their role and responsibility to care, nurture, strengthen and lead their families and communities.

scholarly journals ‘“problem” children of this community’: Christ Church St Laurence and the Children’s Court, Sydney, 1936-41

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-98
Author(s):  
Patricia Curthoys
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
Children's Court ◽  
Children’S Court

This article seeks to explore the experiences of those boys who, in late 1930s/ early 1940s Sydney, were considered, by the courts and the churches, amongst others, to be 'the "problem" children of this community'. The sources for this exploration are the records of the Metropolitan Children's Court, Surry Hills and the Christ Church St Laurence Boys' Welfare Bureau. Children's courts were established in New South Wales in 1905. From 1934 onwards all metropolitan cases were heard at Surry Hills. The Boys' Welfare Bureau was established in April 1936 by Christ Church St Laurence, an Anglican church situated near Central Railway Station, Sydney. The records of the Bureau and the Court provide insights into the ways in which both religion and the law attempted to shape the lived experience of these boys, in inner city Sydney, within the context of current ideas about juvenile delinquency and its treatment.

NSW—Strategic release of exploration areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 418
Author(s):  
Diane Crosdale
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
New South ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Advisory Body ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Independent Review ◽  
The Subject

In November 2014 the New South Wales (NSW) Government set out a series of actions to pause, reset and restart a sustainable gas industry for NSW. NSW gas demand and supply reinforce the need for the development of a gas industry. Under this reset, gas exploration areas will be released through the Strategic Release Framework process. The Framework is an independent and transparent process. Utilising geological, economic, environmental and social data including the outcomes of community engagement, areas considered suitable for exploration will be nominated for release. The Framework recognises that there are competing uses for land, and seeks to balance these interests. The Advisory Body, being the independent review body, will conduct these assessments. All release areas will be the subject of a competitive selection process.

Healing Experiences of British Columbia First Nations Women: Moving Beyond Suicidal Ideation and Intention

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Paproski
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Native Spirituality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Nations Women

This study explores how five British Columbia First Nations women moved through suicidal ideation and intention in their youth. Much of their healing process was facilitated by a reconnection to their cultural identity and traditional native spirituality. Phenomenological research methods were used to guide the interview process, analysis, and the interpretation of unstructured interviews. Each transcribed interview was analyzed for themes and developed into a narrative. Several procedures were used to examine the validity of the analysis and interpretation, including participant review of the findings. Three of the 12 themes that emerged suggest common experiences surrounding suicide attempts or ideation. These experiences suggest that the impact of separation from family, community, and culture was significant for each of these women. Nine of the 12 major themes describe a variety of healing experiences for these five women, involving elders or other role models, professional counsellors, family, and community. As a consequence of their healing experiences, all participants reported an increased sense of personal empowerment, a positive view of themselves, and a commitment to a positive future for themselves and other First Nations people. The significance of cultural connections and native spirituality may have important implications for the intervention and prevention of suicide in First Nations youth.

scholarly journals Refugee filmmaking

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ◽  
Kaya Davies Hayon ◽  
Lucia Sorbera
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
New South ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Moral Environment ◽  
The Moment

The origins of this issue of Alphaville lie in collaborations between the Forced Migration Research Network (UNSW – University of New South Wales) and the Refugee Council of Australia, and in the inspiration afforded us by international colleagues and guests to Sydney (Fadma Aït Mous), Liverpool (Dennis Del Favero) and Lincoln (Hoda Afshar) universities. We have benefited from these academic alliances and invitations, but we also embrace the widest notion of hospitality, whereby the moment of arrival, the request for assistance and shelter, and subsequent decisions over citizenship and long-term residency are located in a moral environment of welcome and mutual learning. We trace and acknowledge our intellectual relationships here in so far as they have allowed us to articulate an emerging and shared recognition that refugee lived experience stands as the barometer for political civility and social health in our time.

Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1549-1565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Kendall ◽  
Stacey Lighton ◽  
Juanita Sherwood ◽  
Eileen Baldry ◽  
Elizabeth Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Health Care Experiences ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Women In Prison

While there has been extensive research on the health and social and emotional well-being (SEWB) of Aboriginal women in prison, there are few qualitative studies where incarcerated Aboriginal women have been directly asked about their health, SEWB, and health care experiences. Using an Indigenous research methodology and SEWB framework, this article presents the findings of 43 interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal women in New South Wales, Australia. Drawing on the interviews, we found that Aboriginal women have holistic conceptualizations of their health and SEWB that intersect with the SEWB of family and community. Women experience clusters of health problems that intersect with intergenerational trauma, perpetuated and compounded by ongoing colonial trauma including removal of children. Women are pro-active about their health but encounter numerous challenges in accessing appropriate health care. These rarely explored perspectives can inform a reframing of health and social support needs of incarcerated Aboriginal women establishing pathways for healing.

scholarly journals How a transformational Collective Benefit Mindset experience prompted parents raising children with disability to launch a peer network

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annick Janson ◽  
Sylvana Mahmic ◽  
Trisha Benge ◽  
Colene Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
New South ◽  
Signature Strengths ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Children With Disability ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Peer Network ◽  
Collective Benefit ◽  
Family Leadership

<div> <div> <div> <p>Abstract<br></p><p>This research reports how families forged their pathway towards a ‘Benefit Mindset’ self-transformation. This resulted in parents creating a peer network, taking steps to pursue their development and to share their learning about empowerment and flourishing as they work in parallel to create better outcomes for their children with disability. <br></p> <p>Twenty-three participants (11 couples and 1 mother) raising children with disability or developmental delays attended the Now and NextTMprogram, which pioneered the integration of Positive Psychology in the disability sector. This disruptive program was launched in New South Wales in 2015 by two professionals with lived experience and evolved through co-design with the 300 families that have since completed the program (Mahmic & Janson, 2018). <br></p> <p>As participants grew their individual empowerment, hope and collective capacity, their vision to support other families and the collective mindset to make it happen emerged. These families recognised that the missing link in partnerships between professionals and families is their accountability in building their leadership. Participants learnt about identifying their signature strengths and putting them to work to build their family leadership. </p> <p>This research extends the concept of Benefit Mindset proponed by Buchanan and Kern (2017) about individuals to a group space by detailing how their Collective Benefit Mindset emerged. </p> </div> </div> </div>

Colonial Emigration, Public Policy, and Tory Romanticism, 1783–1830

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
New South ◽  
British Society ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Economic Migrant ◽  
Colonial Settlement

This chapter focuses on white colonial emigration and the settlement of the British and Irish following the loss of the first British Empire. In particular, it examines the British imaginative engagement with the figure of the colonial settler as a casualty of war, industrialization, and poverty, as well as an economic migrant who nevertheless appeared to signify the potential for the recuperation of British society in the future. The chapter is also concerned with the role of the Romantic writers and literature in the new national imaginative investment in colonial settlement. It furthermore discusses Tory arguments and policy making, which encouraged state involvement and planning of the colonization of the white-settler territories in New South Wales, Canada, the Cape, and New Zealand. This Tory strain of British imperialism was issued out from the Romantic critique of classical political economy and the Romantic assault on Malthus’s non-interventionist stance on poverty. In contrast to the liberal economists, proponents of the Tory arguments advocated the active involvement of the state in managing poverty, and the export of the excess of the population to the overseas colonies. By focusing on the Tory outlook and its implications for the settler colonies, including the imaginative dimension of the literary writers, the chapter gives a profound understanding on the strand of imperialism that evolved together with the nineteenth-century imperial liberalism, yet substantially differed from it.

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