Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo

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2000 Year-old Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) Aboriginal food remains, Australia
(Springer Science and Business Media, 2020) Stephenson, B.; David, B.; Fresløv, J.; Arnold, L.J.; GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation,; Delannoy, J.-J.; Petchey, F.; Urwin, C.; Wong, V.N.L.; Fullagar, R.; Green, H.; Mialanes, J.; McDowell, M.; Wood, R.; Hellstrom, J.
Insects form an important source of food for many people around the world, but little is known of the deep-time history of insect harvesting from the archaeological record. In Australia, early settler writings from the 1830s to mid-1800s reported congregations of Aboriginal groups from multiple clans and language groups taking advantage of the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) in and near the Australian Alps, the continent's highest mountain range. The moths were targeted as a food item for their large numbers and high fat contents. Within 30 years of initial colonial contact, however, the Bogong moth festivals had ceased until their recent revival. No reliable archaeological evidence of Bogong moth exploitation or processing has ever been discovered, signalling a major gap in the archaeological history of Aboriginal groups. Here we report on microscopic remains of ground and cooked Bogong moths on a recently excavated grindstone from Cloggs Cave, in the southern foothills of the Australian Alps. These findings represent the first conclusive archaeological evidence of insect foods in Australia, and, as far as we know, of their remains on stone artefacts in the world. They provide insights into the antiquity of important Aboriginal dietary practices that have until now remained archaeologically invisible.
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Action for Aboriginal Social Inclusion
(Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) Rigney, L.; Bottrell, D.; Goodwin, S.
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An international overview of the initiatives to accommodate Indigenous prisoners
(Routledge, 2016) Grant, E.; Jewkes, Y.; Crewe, B.; Bennett, J.
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Ceduna Aboriginal Children and Family Centre: Indigenous Design Considerations. Report to Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (South Australia). 106p.
(2011) Grant, E.; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic); Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo
This report was commissioned by the Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI) South Australia as part of the preliminary design process for the Ceduna Aboriginal Children and Family Centre. This report aims to provide deeper understandings of the Indigenous design issues for the design team including preliminary comments to inform the design process.
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Celebrating and sustaining Indigenous knowledges through research
(World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium, 2012) Robertson, B.; Anning, B.; Arbon, V.M.; Thomas, G.
This paper reports on the growth of research within the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC). The focus is the research and later, research and journal working group. The intent is to discuss the publication of the WINHEC Journal, discussion papers and other activities such as the development of the Research Standards while analysing the underpinning imperatives to such work. The paper will also examine the complexity of progressing research, founded in local knowledge, aligned internationally to broader conceptions of Indigenous knowledge. The suggestion underlying this paper is that if research is undertaken from a position of Indigenous knowledge and epistemology, it will celebrate and sustain Indigenous people.
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Christies Beach Aboriginal Children and Family Centre: Indigenous Design Considerations. Report to Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (South Australia). 84p.
(2011) Grant, E.; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic); Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo
This report was commissioned by the Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI) South Australia as part of the preliminary design process for the Christies Beach Aboriginal Children and Family Centre.
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Churchill Fellowship 2008: To investigate correctional facilities for Indigenous prisoners New Zealand, Canada & Denmark
(The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 2009) Grant, E.; Churchill Fellowship; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic); Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo
The design of environments for Australian Aboriginal offenders has always been problematic. The needs and concerns of Aboriginal prisons have been little understood and prison environments have often not served the needs of prisoners resulting in incidences of deaths in custody, self-harming and resistance behaviours. Australian Aboriginal prison populations continue to grow and the importance of providing custodial environments to meet the varying and diverse needs of these groups of prisoners is important. Within the fellowship I wished to view Indigenous custodial facilities across a number of countries to assess whether there were common needs and preferences among Indigenous prisoner populations and find innovation in prison design which could be applied to the Australian context. This report documents that Indigenous prisoners in other countries have common concerns shared by many Australian Aboriginal prisoners. The prison location, the ability to live within a social group, staying in contact with family and community were all common concerns. The normalisation of prison environments appears to have a major effect on the behaviour of prisoners within prisons. Theoretically it has been shown that normalising prison environments results in fewer instances of resistance behaviours (e.g. escapes, threatening behaviours, riots, suicides and self-harming behaviours) among prisoners. The level of critical incidences reported in Danish prisons was low. Within the design of prisons a variety of techniques were used to normalise prison environments successfully. These are underpinned by a legislative framework which ensures a minimum standard of prison accommodation. The design of different types of Indigenous units has been pioneered in New Zealand and Canada successfully. These have involved specific design processes which allow Indigenous communities to partner with correctional agencies to achieve mutual aims and all have involved the incorporation of cultural knowledge into the design or later enculturation of the prison environment. There were some accompanying issues in the design of Indigenous specific facilities. Most had a minimum security classification excluding numbers of Indigenous prisoners and the issues of housing certain groups of prisoners was proving problematic at some sites. There is much that can learnt from these examples for application to the Australian context.
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Combining Indigenous and maritime archaeological approaches: experiences and insights from the '(Re)locating Narrunga Project', Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
(Springer New York LLC, 2013) Roberts, A.; McKinnon, J.; O'Loughlin, C.; Wanganeed, K.; Rigney, L.; Fowler, M.; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo
This paper details the unique pairing of Indigenous and maritime archaeological approaches in the '(Re)locating Narrunga Project'. Narrunga was a ketch built by the Narungga Aboriginal community at Point Pearce Mission (Yorke Peninsula, South Australia) at the turn of the twentieth century and later sunk in the 1940s. It is argued that convergences between the scholarly interests of Indigenous and maritime archaeological approaches have been slow to develop and that maritime archaeology as a sub-discipline has not capitalized on the insights that can be gained from collaborative approaches between communities and practitioners. Similarly, Indigenous communities in Australia have had few opportunities to work with researchers to record their maritime heritage. As is evident in the Narrunga story told in this research, non-Indigenous records have been complicit in underplaying the maritime achievements and skills of Narungga people and collaborative research can work towards decolonizing this past. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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Conflict-handling mechanisms in Australian reconciliation
(Routledge, 2008) Rigney, L.; Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic); Johnston, E.; Rigney, D.; Hinton, M.; Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo
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Conveying sacred knowledge through contemporary architectural design: the Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre
(e-IPH International Publishing House, 2016) Grant, E.; 6th Asia Pacific International Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies (AicE-Bs 2015) (31 Aug 2015 - 5 Sep 2015 : Barcelona, Spain)
The Indigenous peoples of north east Arnhem Land in Australia (Yolngu) overlay their culture with the customs and social behaviour of other societies to achieve positive outcomes and autonomy. Passing down cultural knowledge is intrinsic to the cultural identity of Yolngu. The paper discusses the recently completed Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre and examines the cultural knowledge conveyed through the medium of contemporary architecture design. The paper finds that the Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre combined aspects of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal cultures to form a coherent whole with multi-facetted meanings.
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Conveying sacred knowledge through contemporary architectural design: the Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre
(Elsevier, 2015) Grant, E.; Asia Pacific International Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies (AicE-Bs2015) (30 Aug 2015 - 4 Sep 2015 : Barcelona, Spain)
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Design issues for prisoner health: thermal conditions in Australian custodial environments
(International Academy for Design and Health, 2012) Grant, E.; Hansen, A.; Williamson, T.; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo; Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning (CHURP)
Heatwaves are a major public health concern causing more fatalities than any other natural hazard. In Australian prisons, extreme temperatures have been recorded and heat related deaths have occurred. While some countries have identified ‘optimum’ thermal conditions for custodial accommodation, there are no national thermal standards, guidelines or recommendations for the design of custodial environments and management of prisoners. This article examines the existing national and international literature to demonstrate that prisoners are a poorly identified subgroup of the population ‘at risk’ of heat-related illnesses. Thermal conditions within prisons and other types of custodial accommodation across Australia vary considerably. This article finds that even if current thermal comfort standards were employed, the prison environments may not be safe or suitable as current methods of devising thermal comfort standards for buildings are flawed as the standards do not take into account the needs of vulnerable users. Given that heatwaves are likely to increase in frequency and duration; devising ‘best practice’ thermal comfort data for the needs of vulnerable users is paramount. Furthermore, the consideration of the thermal design of custodial environments is an important policy, management and design issue that deserves attention in the interests of public and prisoner health both in Australia and internationally.
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Developing community based models of Corporate Social Responsibility
(Elsevier, 2018) Fordham, A.E.; Robinson, G.M.; Van Leeuwen, J.
In this article, grounded theory was used to develop models of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that can generate benefits for communities impacted by the Australian resource sector. Interviews were conducted with community representatives who interacted with a range of resource companies located in three Australian jurisdictions. Separate conceptual models were developed for Indigenous communities with legislated land rights as opposed to local communities nearby resource development. This was because they had different priorities in terms of model elements. Indigenous people sought to maintain cultural and environmental values through CSR whilst accepting a need for some social change. These values were expressed in cases where legislative frameworks enabled their protection and sufficient resources were available, such as financial capital, policy commitments and stakeholder support. Local communities were seeking to maintain their viability and to ensure companies were accountable for their impacts. CSR in this context relied on company policy and the formation of voluntary partnerships which differed according to the organisation’s culture. In this paper, it is argued that participatory CSR provided a mechanism to express community values linking it to perceptions of empowerment and capacity to provide long-term value to communities. The study also helps identify where improvements can be made to the Australian resource sector.
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Duplex Jail
(Black Knight Media Pty Ltd, 2005) Grant, E.
The recently commissioned, Ross Independent Living Units at Mobilong Prison on the outskirts of Murray Bridge presents new innovations in Australian prison architecture. For the first time, medium security prisoners will be housed in self-contained duplex accommodation, a stark contrast to traditional cellblocks used under typical medium security regimes.
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Earth song as storywork : reclaiming Indigenous knowledges
(David unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, 2015) Wyld, F.; Fredericks, B.
Is it possible for Indigenous ways of knowing, which draw on earth song and storywork, to find a place within the academy? Indigenous peoples recognise that the earth has a song, which we can listen to as story. In return, we can sing our story to the world and of the world. In this paper, the authors explore their own stories and songs. They explain the ways that listening to the earth's song and working with stories can inform their work in the academy - as teachers who support younglings to hear their voices and develop their own songs, and as the writers and tellers of curriculum. The authors ask whether it is possible for Indigenous academics to combine their academic work with Indigenous ways of knowing. They argue that, not only is the combination possible, it can be used to create a harmonious voice that will help them to reclaim their power as Indigenous academic women.
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Epilogue: Can the Settler State Settle with Whom it Colonises? Reasons for Hope and Priorities for Action
(Federation Press, 2011) Rigney, L.; Maddison, S.; Brigg, M.
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Establishment of a sentinel surveillance network for sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Aboriginal primary care services across Australia: The ATLAS project
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020) Bradley, C.; Hengel, B.; Crawford, K.; Elliott, S.; Donovan, B.; Mak, D.B.; Nattabi, B.; Johnson, D.; Guy, R.; Fairley, C.K.; Wand, H.; Ward, J.; Lewis, D.; Bowden, F.; Selvey, C.; Bastian, L.; Smallwood, G.
Background Sexually transmissible infection (STI) and blood-borne virus (BBV) diagnoses data are a core component of the Australian National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). However, the NNDSS data alone is not enough to understand STI and BBV burden among priority population groups, like Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, because it lacks testing, treatment and management data. Here, we describe the processes involved in establishing a STI and BBV sentinel surveillance network representative of Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Services (ACCHS)—known as the ATLAS network—to augment the NNDSS and to help us understand the burden of disease due to STI and BBV among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Methods Researchers invited participation from ACCHS in urban, regional and remote areas clustered in five clinical hubs across four Australian jurisdictions. Participation agreements were developed for each clinical hub and individual ACCHS. Deidentified electronic medical record (EMR) data relating to STI and BBV testing, treatment and management are collected passively from each ACCHS via the GRHANITEtm data extraction tool. These data are analysed centrally to inform 12 performance measures which are included in regular surveillance reports generated for each ACCHS and clinical hub. Results The ATLAS network currently includes 29 ACCHS. Regular reports are provided to ACCHS to assess clinical practice and drive continuous quality improvement initiatives internally. Data is also aggregated at the hub, jurisdictional and national level and will be used to inform clinical guidelines and to guide future research questions. The ATLAS infrastructure can be expanded to include other health services and potentially linked to other data sources using GRHANITE. Conclusions The ATLAS network is an established national surveillance network specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The data collected through the ATLAS network augments the NNDSS and will contribute to improved STI and BBV clinical care, guidelines and policy program-planning.
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Evaluating the cultural responsiveness of the design of an Aboriginal Court Complex for Aboriginal Users: Post Occupancy Evaluation of the Port Augusta Court Complex
(2011) Grant, E.; Rowden, E.; Taitz, M.; Annual Conference of Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (24th : 2011 : Victoria, Australia); Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic); Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo
The design of Port Augusta Courts Complex is unique. The design aimed to meet the environmental needs of Aboriginal people in the court system and to support the process of Aboriginal Courts. The design process drew on extensive consultation with the local community resulting in a court complex inclusive of Aboriginal signs and symbols, way finding and legibility mechanisms, strong relationships between the internal and external environments and considerations to meet the socio-spatial needs of Aboriginal users. The design intended to support culturally sensitive court processes such as the Aboriginal Court while fulfilling the requirements of the Anglo-Australian Western judicial system. It is unknown how successful the court complex was at fulfilling these requirements. Post-occupancy evaluation is the term for a broad range of activities aimed at understanding how buildings perform once they are completed and how satisfied building users are with the environment that has been created. This paper discusses the results and issues involved in conducting a post-occupancy evaluation of the cultural responsiveness of Port Augusta Courts Complex to Aboriginal users’ needs. It analyses various spaces including a flexible courtroom space in the complex, designed to cater for Aboriginal Court. Observations of the latter reveal a divergence between the architect’s intent and the users’ intentions, demonstrating a shift in agency from the designers to the end users. The case study raises various questions. What does this case study tell us about the importance of court environments in the justice system? Do innovative court environments such as these act as passive vessels for the perpetuation of colonial cycles of incarceration, or do they afford a better and more therapeutic experience of the justice system for all?
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Experiential learning to increase palliative care competence among the Indigenous workforce: an Australian experience
(BMJ, 2018) Shahid, S.; Ekberg, S.; Holloway, M.; Jacka, C.; Yates, P.; Garvey, G.; Thompson, S.C.
Objectives: Improving Indigenous people’s access to palliative care requires a health workforce with appropriate knowledge and skills to respond to end-of-life (EOL) issues. The Indigenous component of the Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA) includes opportunities for Indigenous health practitioners to develop skills in the palliative approach by undertaking a supervised clinical placement of up to 5 days within specialist palliative care services. This paper presents the evaluative findings of the components of an experiential learning programme and considers the broader implications for delivery of successful palliative care education programme for Indigenous people. Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with PEPA staff and Indigenous PEPA participants. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and key themes identified. Results: Participants reported that placements increased their confidence about engaging in conversations about EOL care and facilitated relationships and ongoing work collaboration with palliative care services. Management support was critical and placements undertaken in settings which had more experience caring for Indigenous people were preferred. Better engagement occurred where the programme included Indigenous staffing and leadership and where preplacement and postplacement preparation and mentoring were provided. Opportunities for programme improvement included building on existing postplacement and follow-up activities. Conclusions: A culturally respectful experiential learning education programme has the potential to upskill Indigenous health practitioners in EOL care.
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Formulating a fiscal reaction function for ADAM
(Denmark Statistics, 2015) Ambaw, D.; Knudsen, D.
We attempt to clarify the formation of interest income and examine the role of a fiscal reaction function in ADAM in keeping the public debt from exploding when there is 1% increase in the public purchase of goods and services and the VAT rate. The paper briefly demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed fiscal rule in stabilizing the public budget.

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