APO Research

Using The Le@rning Federation digital curriculum resources to enhance the education of Indigenous students
David McRae The Le@rning Federation 18 June, 2009
This report on a recent forum in Melbourne that brought together teachers of Indigenous students, Aboriginal education unit representatives and contact liaison officers from the states and territories, discusses the use of digital curriculum resources.

Commonwealth Indigenous budget bulletin - June 2009
Lesley Russell Macroeconomics.com.au15 June, 2009 The Indigenous Budget Bulletin is prepared by the Macroeconomics health team to help engender public debate and scrutiny of Indigenous budget policy.

Location and segregation: The distribution of the Indigenous population across Australia's urban centres
Nicholas Biddle Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research15 June, 2009 This paper focuses on which cities and large towns Indigenous Australians live in, how the Indigenous population is distributed by neighbourhood within these cities and towns, and what the characteristics of the neighbourhoods are in which Indigenous Australians are concentrated.

Improving the patient journey: achieving positive outcomes for remote Aboriginal cardiac patients
Moncia Lawrence Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health17 June, 2009 Aboriginal patients from remote areas have special needs when interacting with health systems, and these needs must be met for safe care practices and optimal health outcomes to be achieved.

The Reconciliation Barometer and the Indigenous imaginary
Tim Rowse Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy12 June, 2009 This paper discusses the findings of a recently released study to ‘measure the progress of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians’ by Reconciliation Australia.

Broader native title settlements and the meaning of the term 'traditional owners'
David Edelman National Native Title Tribunal17 June, 2009 This paper summarise the various meanings which have been applied to the notion of traditional ownership, based on a review of the published literature on the subject.