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Caregiver Reports on the Needs and Experiences of Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Results From an Australian Survey

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Success factors for Indigenous entrepreneurs and community-based enterprises [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Introduction: This resource sheet reviews the available literature on the key factors that have underpinned successful Indigenous entrepreneurs and community-based enterprises.
Sam Morley
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‘We Are Australia’: Unpacking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Understandings and Experiences of Australian Identity

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living custodians in the world. However, Australian identity has been purposefully established to exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contributing to systemic oppression and harmful consequences. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres
Jack Farrugia, Jonathan Bullen
wiley   +1 more source

Resisting contradictions : non-Indigenous pre-service teacher responses to critical Indigenous studies

open access: yes, 2011
The study examines non-Indigenous pre-service teacher responses to the authorisation of Indigenous knowledge perspectives in compulsory Indigenous studies with a primary focus on exploring the nature and effects of resistance.
Phillips, Jean
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What is Indigenous Studies?

open access: yesThe Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies
This editorial addresses the discipline of Indigenous studies and the scholarship that has shaped our current understandings. For the journal’s inaugural edition, a grounding of the various theoretical frameworks and methodologies undertaken by scholars working in Indigenous communities ishighlighted along with a sharing of the canon which roots ...
openaire   +1 more source

Indigenous pathways to peace: an exploratory study of the conflict resolution and peacebuilding practices of the Kalasha people of Pakistan

open access: yes
This study explores the peacebuilding practices of the Kalasha people, an Indigenous community residing in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Mushtaq, Sehar
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To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial of "International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, Volume 5, Number 2, 2012"

open access: yes, 2012
This edition is marked by a strong Antipodean focus. The first three articles bring a critical\ud Indigenous perspective to areas previously cosseted by Western understandings.
Walter, Maggie   +2 more
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Indigenous child safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Indigenous children are over represented in areas where child safety and security are compromised, argues this report. Summary National data show that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are over-represented in various aspects of child ...

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