Diabetes, Hyperinsulinemia, and Hyperlipidemia in Small Aboriginal Community in Northern Australia

Diabetes Care ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 830-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. O'Dea ◽  
R. J. Lion ◽  
A. Lee ◽  
K. Traianedes ◽  
J. L. Hopper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Community

Community-Based Strategies in Aboriginal Criminal Justice: The Northern Territory Experience

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Correctional Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Community Justice

Recent attempts to involve the remote and small town communities of Northern Australia in their own policing and correctional services have often been held up as a model for developing Aboriginal criminal justice policies. Such a proposal raises important questions as to both the construction of the post-colonial ‘community’ in remote and settled Australia and the sociological principles by which these criminal justice schemes (eg night patrols, community wardens, community corrections) have been constituted. The paper explores the constructions of the Aboriginal community over the past two decades (ethnographic, politico-administrative and postmodernist) as a background to the development and implementation of community-based criminal justice schemes in the Northern Territory. A typology of post-colonial criminal justice strategies is developed which identifies four ‘ideal types’ in which the initiatives may be positioned. These are the mediative (community wardens, night patrols), the educative (community justice programs), the neo-colonialist (new forms of imposed European laws and policing) and the incorporative (pervasive and totalising forms of control). The possibility of transposing these Northern Territory schemes to other Aboriginal situations is then critically evaluated in the light of differing socio-political constructions of ‘community’.

Should Munanga learn Kriol?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hendy ◽  
Catherine Bow
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Contact Language

Abstract Kriol, an English-lexifier contact language, has approximately 20,000 speakers across northern Australia. It is the primary language of the remote Aboriginal community of Ngukurr. Kriol is a contact language, incorporating features of English and traditional Indigenous languages. The language has been perceived both positively and negatively, although recent literature suggests a shift towards more favorable views. This paper investigates how community members in Ngukurr responded to the question of non-Indigenous residents (known locally as Munanga) learning Kriol. Interviews with local Indigenous residents showed positive attitudes to Kriol, with respondents providing a number of perceived benefits for outsiders learning the language. Our interviews provide empirical evidence for pride in the language, affirming a shift to more positive attitudes.

Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia

2019 ◽  
pp. 62-84
Author(s):  
Daniel Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Police Powers ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter pursues an ethnographic account of intra-indigenous relations and jurisdictional contest in urban northern Australia. Its narrative explores the relationship between Aboriginal community policing and emergent forms and figures of urban mobility and morbidity in Darwin, capital of Australia's Northern Territory. While Darwin's indigenous patrols have no police powers and its officers disavow any authority as police, they do have a certain status vested in them by the traditional owners of the country on which they patrol. Their Aboriginal-directed efforts thus entail both an assertion of indigenous jurisdiction and an accompanying reflexivity about the substance and limits of its reach-limits informed by settler colonial oversight, by the diversity of indigenous claims to urban space, and by poetic figures and mediatized narratives that trope the volatility of Aboriginal dispersal and displacement. The chapter explores the ways patrols negotiate their authority and reckon its limits, extending a local poetics of jurisdiction and movement to illuminate the new urban worlds they traverse.

scholarly journals A community-based program to reduce acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in northern Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Kerrigan ◽  
Angela Kelly ◽  
Anne Marie Lee ◽  
Valerina Mungatopi ◽  
Alice G. Mitchell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Disease ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Rheumatic Fever ◽  
Rheumatic Heart Disease ◽  
Acute Rheumatic Fever ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Rheumatic Heart

Abstract Background In Australia’s north, Aboriginal peoples live with world-high rates of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its precursor, acute rheumatic fever (ARF); driven by social and environmental determinants of health. We undertook a program of work to strengthen RHD primordial and primary prevention using a model addressing six domains: housing and environmental support, community awareness and empowerment, health literacy, health and education service integration, health navigation and health provider education. Our aim is to determine how the model was experienced by study participants. Methods This is a two-year, outreach-to-household, pragmatic intervention implemented by Aboriginal Community Workers in three remote communities. The qualitative component was shaped by Participatory Action Research. Yarning sessions and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 individuals affected by, or working with, ARF/RHD. 31 project field reports were collated. We conducted a hybrid inductive-deductive thematic analysis guided by critical theory. Results Aboriginal Community Workers were best placed to support two of the six domains: housing and environmental health support and health navigation. This was due to trusting relationships between ACWs and families and the authority attributed to ACWs through the project. ACWs improved health literacy and supported awareness and empowerment; but this was limited by disease complexities. Consequently, ACWs requested more training to address knowledge gaps and improve knowledge transfer to families. ACWs did not have skills to provide health professionals with education or ensure health and education services participated in ARF/RHD. Where knowledge gain among participant family members was apparent, motivation or structural capability to implement behaviour change was lacking in some domains, even though the model was intended to support structural changes through care navigation and housing fixes. Conclusions This is the first multi-site effort in northern Australia to strengthen primordial and primary prevention of RHD. Community-led programs are central to the overarching strategy to eliminate RHD. Future implementation should support culturally safe relationships which build the social capital required to address social determinants of health and enable holistic ways to support sustainable individual and community-level actions. Government and services must collaborate with communities to address systemic, structural issues limiting the capacity of Aboriginal peoples to eliminate RHD.

“No More Secrets—Ngukurr News”: Looking Back at the Contribution of a Community Newspaper in a Remote Aboriginal Setting

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Kate Senior ◽  
Richard Chenhall ◽  
Daphne Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Member ◽  
Collection Management ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Community Newspaper ◽  
Looking Back

This paper examines the contribution that a community newspaper made to a remote aboriginal community in northern Australia. Instigated by the researchers as a way to engage young people in the project, the community newspaper became an important focus of activity and learning, providing young people with skills and education around the collection, management, and dissemination of news and supporting youth to gain empowerment in the community. At the time, the researchers did not acknowledge this impact. This article discusses the development of the community newspaper, and the authors (two academics and one community member) reflect on the importance of supporting community development activities in the research process.

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