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.

After the Apology: still keeping our distance

This article is not about the apology itself. What I want to talk about is “the where and how to from here” in the murky and politically undiscussed terrain of race relations in Australia.

In mid November 2009, Foreign Editor for The Australian, Greg Sheridan, stepped out of his usual world affairs role and wrote a short article based on his visit to Hopevale in Cape York. By referring to Sheridan’s article my aim is not to talk about Northern Queensland, but to focus on what the article says between its lines about the relationship between of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Along with acknowledging his inexperience of Aboriginal Australia, Sheridan makes a poignant statement: he says “I wish I had more Aboriginal friends, more contact with the communities”. This statement is obviously genuinely felt, and I would hazard, resonates with the feelings of many other non-Indigenous Australians.

The question for me is why Greg Sheridan doesn’t, especially given his long-standing prominent position of one of Australia’s leading journalists, have more knowledge and have more Aboriginal friends. And to take the focus off Sheridan, this question can be extended to the vast majority of other non-Indigenous Australians. Why don’t Indigenous Australians know more about and know more Aboriginal people than they do?

Unfinished business of the Bringing Them Home report

"Sorry": the unfinished business of the Bringing Them Home report
Coral Dow / Information and Research Services, Parliamentary Library
Two components of reparation, an apology and compensation, remain as the major unfinished business of the Bringing Them Home report. This background note provides an overview of these issues within the context of the Bringing Them Home report, a chronology of the key developments in the debate, the text of state and territory apologies and links to further web resources. Posted 05-02-2008