scholarly journals Mapping Forgotten Worlds: a conversation with Danielle Clode

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Killer Whales ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Working Together ◽  
First Contact

Danielle Clode is an Adelaide-based author who has written on prehistoric megafauna, Pacific exploration, killer whales and bushfires. She writes children’s books, essays, fiction and popular zoology, which have won awards, fellowships and prizes too numerous to mention. Her latest book, at the time of writing, is The Wasp and the Orchid, a biography of Australian nature writer Edith Coleman. Danielle and I have known each other for some years, and we are currently working together on an edited book about first contact between Australian Aboriginal people and explorers. For details of her publications and career, see her website at danielleclode.com.auA graduate in zoology from Oxford University, Danielle has worked as a zookeeper and a museum researcher. Growing up on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, she spent some of her childhood travelling coastal Australia with her family by boat. Danielle teaches creative and academic writing and in all her work she is conscious of the importance of form and voice. In this interview I asked her about style, genre and technique in her writing, particularly The Wasp and the Orchid (2018), Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes (2007) and A Future in Flames (2010).We spoke at her home in the Adelaide Hills in June 2018, and I first asked her about the combination of styles in A Future in Flames, her book about the history, science and future impact of bushfires in Australia.

Rationale, Aims and Objectives for Aboriginal Education in South Australia

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
The South ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Australian Education ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Combined Work ◽  
Consultative Group

This document represents the views of many people and groups who have been involved in Aboriginal education. It represents particularly the combined work of all the Aboriginal people who have been members of the South Australian Aboriginal Education Consultative Committee. For over twelve months we have been developing the content of this document to the extent where we believe that we have accurately reflected the views of our community.We further acknowledge our connections to the the South Australian Education Department and the South Australian Institute of Teachers along with various non-Aboriginal Ministers and educationalists with whom we have spent many hours in earnest debate and discussion. The above has led us to believe that the statements we have made are both urgent and necessary as reflections of an Aboriginal viewpoint.While this document has a particularly South Australian relevance we have had an involvement with statements made by the National Aboriginal Education Committee and our statements reflect the national view also. We also acknowledge the work done by the N.S.W. Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and the N.S.W. Education Department for we have drawn upon these documents in our statements.

scholarly journals Learning from Both Sides: Experiences and Opportunities in the Investigation of Australian Aboriginal Medicinal Plants

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley S Simpson ◽  
David J Claudie ◽  
Nicholas M Smith ◽  
Ross A McKinnon ◽  
Susan J Semple
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Australian Flora ◽  
The University ◽  
Patent Filing

With one of the oldest surviving cultures in the world, Australian Aboriginal people have developed immense knowledge about the diverse Australian flora. Western scientific investigation of some Australian Aboriginal medicinal plants has demonstrated interesting pharmacological activities and chemistry, however the majority of these species have not yet been extensively examined. We argue that research that is locally initiated and driven by Indigenous traditional owners in collaboration with Western scientists has significant potential to develop new plant-based products. Locally driven medicinal plants research in which traditional owners work as researchers in collaboration with University-based colleagues in the investigation of medicines rather than “stakeholders” or “informants” is one model that may be used in characterising plants with the potential to be developed into sustainable plant-based medicinal products with commercial value. Our team has taken this approach in research located both on traditional homelands and in the laboratory. Research being conducted by the University of South Australia and Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation has led to patent filing for protection of intellectual property associated with novel compounds and extracts with the potential for development through cosmetic, complementary medicine and pharmaceutical routes. Ongoing research is examining the commercial developmental pathways and requirements for product development in these spaces. This review will address the opportunities that might exist for working in partnership with Australian Indigenous communities, some of the scientific knowledge which has been generated so far from our work together and the lessons learnt since the inception of the collaboration between the Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation and scientists from the University of South Australia. This article is open to POST-PUBLICATION REVIEW. Registered readers (see “For Readers”) may comment by clicking on ABSTRACT on the issue’s contents page.

Considering the Impact of Social Media on Contemporary Improvement of Australian Aboriginal Health: Scoping Review (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy Walker ◽  
Claire Palermo ◽  
Karen Klassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Torres Strait

BACKGROUND Social media may have a significant role in influencing the present and future health implications among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, yet there has been no review of the role of social media in improving health. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine the extent of health initiatives using social media that aimed to improve the health of Australian Aboriginal communities. METHODS A scoping review was conducted by systematically searching databases CINAHL Plus; PubMed; Scopus; Web of Science, and Ovid MEDLINE in June 2017 using the terms and their synonyms “Aboriginal” and “Social media.” In addition, reference lists of included studies and the Indigenous HealthInfonet gray literature were searched. Key information about the social media intervention and its impacts on health were extracted and data synthesized using narrative summaries. RESULTS Five papers met inclusion criteria. All included studies were published in the past 5 years and involved urban, rural, and remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people aged 12-60 years. No studies reported objective impacts on health. Three papers found that social media provided greater space for sharing health messages in a 2-way exchange. The negative portrayal of Aboriginal people and negative health impacts of social media were described in 2 papers. CONCLUSIONS Social media may be a useful strategy to provide health messages and sharing of content among Aboriginal people, but objective impacts on health remain unknown. More research is necessary on social media as a way to connect, communicate, and improve Aboriginal health with particular emphasis on community control, self-empowerment, and decolonization.

scholarly journals Risk factors and comorbidities for invasive pneumococcal disease in Western Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people

Pneumonia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye J. Lima ◽  
Deborah Lehmann ◽  
Aoiffe McLoughlin ◽  
Catherine Harrison ◽  
Judith Willis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease ◽  
Pneumococcal Disease ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Western Australian

Aboriginal perspectives on kangaroo management in South Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Thomsen ◽  
K. Muir ◽  
J. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Commercial Harvest ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Rights And Interests

Kangaroos are culturally significant to Aboriginal people but Aboriginal people are generally not involved in kangaroo management or in the kangaroo industry. Our research has provided the first opportunity for Aboriginal people in South Australia to present their perspectives on the commercial harvest of kangaroos. Research methods were qualitative, involving consultations with authoritative Aboriginal people about their perspectives, aspirations, and how they see their rights and interests in relation to the commercial harvest of kangaroos. We found diverse views on this topic from Aboriginal research participants. For some Aboriginal people, strict cultural protocols preclude any involvement in the commercial harvest, but for people from other regions where the cultural laws concerning kangaroos are quite different, there is interest in developing enterprises based on kangaroo harvest. Despite the diversity of views about commercial kangaroo harvest, Aboriginal people across South Australia highly value kangaroos, and want to be included in decision-making processes for kangaroo management. There is potential for appropriate engagement of Aboriginal people in kangaroo management through improved communication, greater understanding and respect for the diversity of Aboriginal perspectives and protocols regarding native wildlife.

scholarly journals «L’anima altrove»: due scrittrici dell’esodo giuliano-dalmata

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Giachino
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Second World

The paper focuses on two Italian writers who, after Second World War, lived the experience of Giulian-Dalmatian exodus. Anna Maria Mori, born in Pula in 1936, as a child left Istria with her family; Nelida Milani, born in Pula in 1939, remained in Istria. Several times in their works they told about that tragic experience, both individual and collective, sometimes even working together.

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