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Indigenous Australians and gambling [PDF]
Summary: This paper synthesises information published about Indigenous Australian gambling, and summarises issues and implications for key stakeholders. It is relevant for raising awareness and promoting community education about gambling for Indigenous ...
Helen Breen, Nerilee Hing
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty +2 more
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 2017 Background The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community has an increased risk of developing chronic illnesses including diabetes. Among people with diabetes, foot complications are common and make a significant contribution to the morbidity and ...
Matthew West +3 more
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Education programs for Indigenous Australians about sexually transmitted infections and bloodborne viruses [PDF]
As a group, Indigenous Australians experience poorer health outcomes than other Australians, including in the area of sexual health. Indigenous Australians have substantially higher rates of STIs, BBVs and teen pregnancy than non-Indigenous Australians ...
James Ward, Natalie Strobel
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An Investigation of the Magnitude of Educational Disadvantage Amongst Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Minority Groups in Australia [PDF]
, 2005 Indigenous minority groups in countries such as the US, Canada and Australia are amongst the most disadvantaged minority groups in the developed world. This disadvantage is strongly associated with 'pre-market' factors.
Bradley, Steve +3 more
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton +4 more
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Public Health Research & Practice, 2017 This study estimates fatal and nonfatal disease burden among Indigenous Australians in 2011 and compares it with non-Indigenous Australians. The study found that there were 284 years lost per 1000 people because of premature death or living with ill ...
Fadwa Al-Yaman
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Income, work and education: insights for closing the gap in urban Australia [PDF]
, 2014 Existing analysis of the Closing the Gap outcomes is limited by the lack of adequate wage data for Indigenous Australians. This paper attempts to redress this situation by using a geography recently developed by the ABS - Significant Urban Areas - to ...
Boyd Hunter, Mandy Yap
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is an insidious form of child sexual abuse (CSA) that impacts Australia's most vulnerable children and young people. Reports of CSE abuses experienced by children and young people living in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) have spurred urgent calls for improving responses to CSE in Australia.
Sarah Ciftci +2 more
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Selected issues for closing the income gaps between Indigenous and other Australians, 2001-11 [PDF]
, 2012 This paper charts recent changes in personal and household income by combining the first release census data for 2011 with community profiles for Indigenous and other households from the 2001 and 2006 Censuses.
Boyd Hunter
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