Australian Aboriginal Ethnometeorology and Seasonal Calendars

Improving immunisation timeliness in Aboriginal children through personalised calendars

BACKGROUND Delayed immunisation and vaccine preventable communicable disease remains a significant health issue in Aboriginal children. Strategies to increase immunisation coverage and timeliness can be resource intensive. In a low cost initiative at the Aboriginal Medical Service Western Sydney (AMSWS) in 2008-2009, a trial of personalised calendars to prompt timely childhood immunisation was ...

Differences Between Values of Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Students

Dental caries among Australian Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal Australian-born, and overseas-born children.

Few studies have specifically compared the prevalence of dental caries among contemporary Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. Historically, Aboriginal groups have had substantially fewer dental caries than non-Aboriginal peoples. More recently, however, this trend appears to have been reversed, with improvements in the oral health of non-Aboriginal children and a deterioration in...

Aboriginal Agency and Marginalisation in Australian Society

It is often argued that while state rhetoric may be inclusionary, policies and practices may be exclusionary. This can imply that the power to include rests only with the state. In some ways, the implication is valid in respect of Aboriginal Australians. For instance, the Australian state has gained control of Aboriginal inclusion via a singular, bounded category and Aboriginal ideal type. Howe...

Aboriginal House Names and Settler Australian Identity

During his time as a federal politician and prime minister, Alfred Deakin divided his time between his city residence in Toorak and his holiday retreat at Point Lonsdale. His family had acquired several acres of land on the Bellarine peninsula in 1904 where they had built a federation bungalow called ‘Ballara’. The word is probably derived from the Wathawurung word balla for ‘elbow’, thus ‘recl...