This section provides recent references compiled from our bibliographic database about caring for country relating to Indigenous environmental health. This information is of particular relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental health practitioners. References include journal articles, reports, theses and other literature. To access our complete database please use our bibliography.
2013
Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (2013)
How can Community Land Trusts provide accessible and stable tenure options for Indigenous Australians?.
Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Veland S, Howitt R, Dominey-Howes D, Thomalla F, Houston D (2013)
Procedural vulnerability: understanding environmental change in a remote Indigenous community.
Global Environmental Change; 23(1): 314–326
Zander KK, Petheram L, Garnett ST (2013)
Stay or leave? Potential climate change adaptation strategies among Aboriginal people in coastal
communities in northern Australia.
Natural Hazards; 67(2):
2012
Weir JK, ed. (2012)
Country, native title and ecology.
Canberra: ANU E Press
Biddle N, Swee H (2012)
The relationship between wellbeing and Indigenous land, language and culture in Australia.
Australian Geographer; 43(3): 215-232
Caring for our Country Review Team (2012)
Report on the review of the Caring for our Country initiative.
Canberra: Caring for our Country
Ens EJ, Finlayson M, Preuss K, Jackson S, Holcombe S (2012)
Australian approaches for managing ‘country’ using Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge.
Ecological Management & Restoration; 13(1): 100-107
Ens EJ, Towler GM, Daniels C, the Yugul Mangi Rangers, the Manwurrk Rangers (2012)
Looking back to move forward: collaborative ecological monitoring in remote Arnhem Land.
Ecological Management & Restoration; 13(1): 26-35
Fogarty W, Schwab RG (2012)
Indigenous education: experiential learning and learning through country.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Ford JD (2012)
Indigenous health and climate change.
American Journal of Public Health; 102(7): 1260-1266
Fordham AM, Schwab J (2012)
Indigenous youth engagement in natural resource management in Australia and North America: a review.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Macklin J (2012)
Continuing our efforts to close the gap: Ministerial statements 2012-13.
Canberra: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
McIntyre-Tamwoy S, Fuary M, Buhrich A (2012)
Understanding climate, adapting to change: Indigenous cultural values and climate change impacts in North Queensland.
Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability; iFirst Article(http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.716415)
Retrieved 28 August 2012 from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.716415
Moorcroft H, Ignjic E, Cowell S, Goonack J, Mangolomara S, Oobagooma J, Karadada R, Williams D, Waina N (2012)
Conservation planning in a cross-cultural context: the Wunambal Gaambera Healthy Country Project in the Kimberley, Western Australia.
Ecological Management & Restoration; 13(1): 16-25
NAILSMA Indigenous Water Policy Group (2012)
Indigenous people’s right to the commercial use and management of water on their traditional territories: an Indigenous water policy position: The Strategic Indigenous Reserve.
Darwin: Charles Darwin University
Nakashima D, Galloway MK, Thulstrup H, Ramos CA, Rubis J (2012)
Weathering uncertainty: traditional knowledge for climate change assessment and adaptation.
: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Facilitators' guide to Indigenous water planning [toolkit of resources] (2012)
North Australian Land and Sea Management Alliance
Preuss K, Dixon M (2012)
‘Looking after country two-ways’: insights into Indigenous community-based conservation from the Southern Tanami.
Ecological Management & Restoration; 13(1): 2-15
Richards AE, Andersen AN, Schatz J, Eager R, Dawes TZ, Hadden K, Kelly Sheepers K, Van Der Geest M (2012)
Savanna burning, greenhouse gas emissions and Indigenous livelihoods: introducing the Tiwi Carbon Study.
Austral Ecology; 37(6): 712–723
Urbis (2012)
Assessment of the social outcomes of the Working on Country program.
Canberra: Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
2011
Altman J, Kerins S, Hunt J, Ens E, May K, Russell S, Fogarty B (2011)
Indigenous cultural and natural resource management futures.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Altman J (2011)
Alternate development for Indigenous territories of difference.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Altman J (2011)
Reforming the Native Title Act.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Amnesty International (2011)
'The land holds us:' Aboriginal peoples' right to traditional homelands in the Northern Territory : report digest.
Sydney: Amnesty International Australia
Amnesty International (2011)
'The land holds us:' Aboriginal peoples' right to traditional homelands in the Northern Territory [full report].
Sydney: Amnesty International Australia
Ansell S, Koenig J (2011)
CyberTracker: an integral management tool used by rangers in the Djelk Indigenous Protected Area, central Arnhem Land, Australia.
Ecological Management & Restoration; 12(1): 13–25
Australian Human Rights Commission (2011)
Native title report 2010.
Canberra: Australian Human Rights Commission
The Native Title report 2010 reviews developments in native title law and policy from 1 july 2009 to 30 June 2010. The report also identifies the priorities and issues in native title that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner will focus on during his term as Commissioner.
The report is divided into three chapters that are each concerned with the common threads of ‘relationship-building' and ‘effective engagement' which also flow through the companion Social justice report 2010. In chapter 1 the commissioner outlines the priorities and themes which he will focus on during his term, including how the United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples will guide his work.
Chapter 2 is primarily concerned with how governments can reach just and fair agreements with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The initiatives that the Australian Government has recently undertaken to build and maintain relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are considered and further reforms suggested.
Chapter 3 focuses upon consultation, cooperation and free, prior and informed consent. How this relates to the development of a ‘special measure' under the Racial discrimination act 1975 (Cth) is then considered. Finally the Commissioner analyses the consultation processes undertaken in relation to the Native title amendment bill (No 2) 2009 (Cth) and the Northern Territory national emergency responses act 2007 (Cth).
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Barber M, Jackson S (2011)
Water and Indigenous people in the Pilbara, Western Australia: a preliminary study.
: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Bohensky EL, Maru Y (2011)
Indigenous knowledge, science, and resilience: what have we learned from a decade of international literature on “integration”?.
Ecology and Society; 16(4): 1-19
Campbell D (2011)
Application of an integrated multidisciplinary economic welfare approach to improved wellbeing through Aboriginal caring for country.
Rangeland Journal; 33(4): 365-372
Davies J, Campbell D, Campbell M, Douglas J, Hueneke H, LaFlamme M, Pearson D, Preuss K, Walker J, Walsh F (2011)
Attention to four key principles can promote health outcomes from desert Aboriginal land management.
The Rangeland Journal; 33(4): 417-431
Department of Sustainability Environment Water Population and Communities (2011)
Sustainable Australia - sustainable communities: a sustainable population strategy for Australia.
Canberra: Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Australia
Gammage B (2011)
The biggest estate on earth : how Aborigines made Australia.
Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin
Gooda M (2011)
Strengthening our relationships over lands, territories and resources: the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [2011 Mabo lecture].
Retrieved from http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/media/speeches/social_justice/2011/20111024_mabo_lecture.html
Hill R (2011)
Towards equity in Indigenous co-management of protected areas: cultural planning by Miriuwung-Gajerrong people in the Kimberley, Western Australia.
Geographical Research; 49(1): 72–85
Jackson S, Finn M, Woodward E, Featherston P (2011)
Indigenous socio-economic values and river flows.
Darwin: CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
Kuipers K, McIntosh K, Paluch T, Oke L (2011)
Caring for country was associated with positive health outcomes for Indigenous people living in remote areas of Northern Australia.
Australian Occupational Therapy Journal; 58(1): 56-57
Léger L, Ward M, Andrews M, Richardson D, Stewart J, McKemey M, Robinson J (2011)
Kakadu: vulnerability to climate change impacts: a report to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.
Canberra: Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Australia
Markwell Consulting (2011)
Workshop summary report: caring for our country review: Indigenous forum.
Canberra: Caring for our Country, Natural Resource Management
McNamara KE, Westoby R (2011)
Solastalgia and the gendered nature of climate change: an example from Erub Island, Torres Strait.
EcoHealth; 8(2): 233-236
Northern Territory Coordinator-General for Remote Services (2011)
Northern Territory Coordinator-General for Remote Services report #4 December 2010 to May 2011.
Darwin: Northern Territory Department of Housing, Local Government and Regional Services
O'Donnell M (2011)
Indigenous rights in water in Northern Australia.
Darwin: North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance
Rigby CW, Rosen A, Berry HL, Hart CR (2011)
If the land's sick, we're sick: the impact of prolonged drought on the social and emotional well-being of Aboriginal communities in rural New South Wales.
Australian Journal of Rural Health; 19(5): 249-254
Rose DB, D’Amico S, Daiyi N, Deveraux K, Daiyi M, Ford L, Bright A (2011)
Country of the heart : an Australian Indigenous homeland.
2nd ed. ed. Acton, A.C.T.: Aboriginal Studies Press
Rusack EM, Dortch J, Hayward K, Renton M, Boer M, Grierson P (2011)
The role of habitus in the maintenance of traditional Noongar plant knowledge in southwest Western Australia.
Human Ecology; 39(5): 673-682
Weir JK (2011)
Karajarri: a West Kimberley experience in managing native title.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Zander KK, Garnett ST (2011)
The economic value of environmental services on Indigenous-held lands in Australia.
PLoS One; 6(8): 1-6
2010
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2010)
Native title report 2009.
Canberra: Australian Human Rights Commission
This report, released annually by the Australian Human Rights Commission (previously the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, HREOC) through the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, reports on the operation of the Native Title Act 1993 and its effect on ‘the exercise and enjoyment of human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples'.
This year's native title report provides a comprehensive overview of native title and law policy in Australia, including information on key cases and information on changes made during 2008-2009. This report also includes information on what should be included in native title law and policy. It includes principles and standards that should underpin these changes and parts of current law and policy that require reform. A review of Indigenous land tenure reform is also included. The report concludes with a number of recommendations for changes to the native title system.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Anglican Diocese of Brisbane (2010)
Information pack on Wild Rivers.
Brisbane: Anglican Diocese of Brisbane
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2010)
Australia’s environment issues and trends 2010: special issue: climate change.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Berry HL, Butler JRA, Burgess CP, King UG, Tsey K, Cadet-James YL, Rigby CW, Raphael B (2010)
Mind, body, spirit: co-benefits for mental health from climate change adaptation and caring for country in remote Aboriginal Australian communities.
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin; 21(6): 139-145
Briggs G (2010)
The impact of climate change on the Torres Strait and Australia's Indian Ocean Territories.
Perth, WA: Future Directions International
Campbell D, Hunt J (2010)
Community development in central Australia: broadening the benefits from land use agreements.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Carter J (2010)
Displacing Indigenous cultural landscapes: the naturalistic gaze at Fraser Island world heritage area.
Geographical Research; 48(4): 398–410
Centre for Appropriate Technology (2010)
National Indigenous infrastructure guide.
Alice Springs: Centre for Appropriate Technology
This publication provides a framework to facilitate an understanding of the issues which arise in the provision of infrastructure for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The main focus of the guide is the installation and maintenance of infrastructure which is appropriate and sustainable for remote Indigenous communities. The importance of community in this process is highlighted in the guide.
The National Indigenous infrastructure guide complements the existing National Indigenous Housing Guide and the Environmental Health Handbooks. The guide provides information on:
- existing research
- codes and standards
- resources
- community infrastructure
The guide was produced by the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT) with funding from the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Davies J, Campbell D, Campbell M, Douglas J, Hueneke H, LaFlamme M, Preuss K, Walker J, Walsh F (2010)
Livelihoods inLand: promoting health and wellbeing outcomes from desert Aboriginal land management.
Alice Springs: Ninti One Limited
Ens E-J, Cooke P, Nadjamerrek R, Namundja S, Garlngarr V, Yibarbuk D (2010)
Combining Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal knowledge to assess and manage feral water buffalo impacts on perennial freshwater springs of the Aboriginal-owned Arnhem Plateau, Australia.
Environmental Management; 45(4): 751-758
Green D, Billy J, Tapim A (2010)
Indigenous Australians’ knowledge of weather and climate.
Climatic Change; 100(2): 337-354
Gunn R, Hardesty BD, Butler J (2010)
Tackling 'ghost nets': local solutions to a global issue in northern Australia.
Ecological Management & Restoration; 11(2): 88-98
Hunt J (2010)
Looking after country in New South Wales: two case studies of socioeconomic benefits for Aboriginal people.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
This report highlights two Aboriginal groups in NSW engaging their people in looking after country and exploring the socio-economic benefits of caring for country. A review of the literature of natural resource management in NSW and existing research establishing the social benefits of caring for country across northern Australia was undertaken.
The two organisations in this report Banbai Business Enterprises, manages the first Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in New South Wales, 'Wattleridge', on the New England Tablelands north east of Guyra, and now a second IPA, 'Tarriwa Kurrukun', on land owned by the Guyra Local Aboriginal Land Council. The Nyambaga Green Team, operates from the Ngurrala Aboriginal Corporation near Macksville, New South Wales.
It was demonstrated that utilising a holistic concept emphasised the importance of Indigenous social, cultural, political and spiritual systems and the relationships between Indigenous people and the earth. This is an asset based approach - building on the existing strengths, capacities, cultural knowledge and responsibilities and family networks within communities.
Both enterprises respond to the communities own aspiration to carry out their cultural obligations and look after country. The ideal of development is linked with culture and identity.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Jackson S, Altman J (2010)
Indigenous rights and water policy: perspectives from tropical northern Australia.
Australian Indigenous Law Review; 13(1): 26-48
May K (2010)
Indigenous cultural and natural resource management and the emerging role of the Working on Country program.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
McGregor S, Lawson V, Christophersen P, Kennett R, Boyden J, Bayliss P, Liedloff A, McKaige B, Andersen AN (2010)
Indigenous wetland burning: conserving natural and cultural resources in Australia’s world heritage-listed Kakadu National Park.
Human Ecology; 38(6): 721-729
Pearce M, Willis E, Wadham B, Binks B (2010)
Attitudes to drought in outback communities in South Australia.
Geographical Research; 48(4): 359-369
Petheram L, Zander KK, Campbell BM, High C, Stacey N (2010)
‘Strange changes’: Indigenous perspectives of climate change and adaptation in NE Arnhem Land (Australia).
Global Environmental Change; 20(4): 681-692
Torres Strait Regional Authority (2010)
Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula area regional plan 2009 - 2029.
Thursday Island, Queensland: Torres Strait Regional Authority
2009
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2009)
Native title report 2008.
Canberra: Australian Human Rights Commission
This report, released annually by the Australian Human Rights Commission (previously the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, HREOC) through the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, reports on the operation of the Native Title Act 1993 and its effect on 'the exercise and enjoyment of human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples'.
The progress the government has made during the 2007-2008 reporting period in achieving rights and equality for Indigenous peoples is examined, together with how the government can complement its symbolic Apology with practical, beneficial changes to the native title system. Three important native title cases which before the courts during the 2007- 2008 reporting period are discussed.
This year's native title report also includes the topical issues of climate change and water and includes two case studies to illustrate the potential impacts of climate change on the human rights of Torres Strait Islander people and the Indigenous people of the Murray-Darling Basin. A number of recommendations are included in the report, aimed at heightening the participation and engagement of Indigenous peoples in addressing these issues.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Altman JC, Arthur WS (2009)
Commercial water and Indigenous Australians: a scoping study of licence allocations.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Alyawarr speakers from Ampilatwatja, Walsh F, Douglas J (2009)
Angka Akatyerr-akert: a desert raisin report.
Alice Springs: Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre
Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (2009)
Caring for country with fire.
Alice Springs: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
Australian Human Rights Commission (2009)
Climate change, water and Indigenous knowledge: a community guide to the Native Title Report 2008.
Sydney: Australian Human Rights Commission
Barnsley I, North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (2009)
A carbon guide for northern Indigenous Australians.
Yokohama: United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies
Baum F (2009)
Taking practical action on social determinants of health: closing the gap by 2040.
Paper presented at the 13th Annual NT Chronic Diseases Network Conference "Prevention is the Best Medicine". 10-11 September 2009, Darwin
Buchanan GJ, Altman JC, Arthur WS, Oades D, Bardi Jawi Rangers (2009)
‘Always part of us’: the socioeconomics of Indigenous customary use and management of dugong and marine turtles – a view from Bardi Jawi sea country, Western Australia.
Darwin: North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance
Burgess CP, Johnston FH, Berry HL, McDonnell J, Yibarbuk D, Gunabarra C, Mileran A, Bailie RS (2009)
Healthy country, healthy people: the relationship between Indigenous health status and “caring for country”.
Medical Journal of Australia; 190(10): 567-572
Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (2009)
Aboriginal wetland burning in Kakadu.
Melbourne: Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health Queensland (2009)
Climate change and Indigenous mental health: from survival to flourishing.
Cairns, Qld: Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health Queensland
Gabrys K, Vaarzon-Morel P (2009)
Aboriginal burning issues in the southern Tanami: towards understanding tradition-based fire knowledge in a contemporary context.
In: Edwards GP, Allan GE, eds. Desert Fire: fire and regional land management in the arid landscapes of Australia. Alice Springs: Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre: Ch. 3, pgs. 80-186
Ganesharajah C (2009)
Indigenous health and wellbeing: the importance of country.
Canberra: Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
This report explores the relationship between the land and the physical and social wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. It aims to provide an understanding of the importance of native title, the return of lands to Indigenous peoples and the ability to live or work on country, to health and wellbeing. The report recommends that the foundations for Indigenous health initiatives be based on the importance of country to Indigenous Australians.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Garnett ST, Sithole B, Whitehead PJ, Burgess CP, Johnston FH, Lea T (2009)
Healthy country, healthy people: policy implications of links between Indigenous human health and environmental condition in tropical Australia.
Australian Journal of Public Administration; 68(1): 53–66
Edwards GP, Allan GE, eds. (2009)
Desert fire: fire and regional land management in the arid landscapes of Australia.
Alice Springs: Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre
Green D, Jackson S, Morrison J (2009)
Risks from climate change to Indigenous communities in the tropical north of Australia.
Canberra: Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
Guse D, Dhimurru (2009)
Dhimurru Indigenous protected area cultural heritage management plan 2009 to 2015.
Nhulunbuy, NT: Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation
Healy E, Stanley J, Birrell R (2009)
Promoting social inclusion in adaptation to climate change: discussion paper.
Melbourne: Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University
Hunt J, Altman JC, May K (2009)
Social benefits of Aboriginal engagement in natural resource management.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Hunter E (2009)
'Radical hope’ and rain: climate change and the mental health of Indigenous residents of northern Australia.
Australasian Psychiatry; 17(6): 445-452
Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources (2009)
Djelk and Warddeken Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs): landmark agreements conserve Indigenous treasures in northern Australia.
Retrieved from http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2092%3Alandmark-agreements-conserve-indigenous-treasures-in-northern-australia&catid=54%3Aaustralia-indigenous-peoples&Itemid=76&lang=en
Kingsley J, Aldous D, Townsend M, Henderson-Wilson C, Phillips R (2009)
Investigating health, economic and socio-political factors that need consideration when establishing Victorian Aboriginal land management projects.
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management; 16(2): 113-123
Laudine C (2009)
Aboriginal environmental knowledge: rational reverence.
Farnham, UK: Ashgate
Mooney G (2009)
Health and homelands: good value for money?.
Melville, WA: GavinMooney.com Health Economics
This report examines the feasibility of, and method for, conducting a study of the costs and benefits of homeland living for Indigenous peoples in Australia. The report also examines the evidence currently available in relation to these benefits and costs. The study found that there is strong evidence on the health benefits for Indigenous Australians living on their homeland. Evidence on the costs associated with homeland living was varied, but the author argues that this should not support the current government policies which threaten the present homeland movement. The report recommends that an interim moratorium on policy action for the homelands takes place until further research is undertaken.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Muller S, Power ER, Suchet-Pearson S, Wright S, Lloyd K (2009)
"Quarantine matters!'': quotidian relationships around quarantine in Australia's northern borderlands.
Environment and Planning A; 41(4): 780-795
Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce (2009)
Sustainable development in Northern Australia, a report to Government from the Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce.
Canberra: Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Smith AJ, Scherrer P, Dowling R (2009)
Impacts on Aboriginal spirituality and culture from tourism in the coastal waterways of the Kimberley region, north west Australia.
Journal of Ecotourism; 8(2): 82-98
Snowdon W (2009)
Health, homelands and creativity [speech].
Retrieved from http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/sp-yr09-ws-wssp080809.htm?OpenDocument&yr=2009&mth=08
Tauli-Corpuz V, de Chavez R, Baldo-Soriano E, Magata H, Golocan C, Bugtong MV, Enkiwe-Abayao L, Cariño J (2009)
Climate change and Indigenous peoples: second edition.
Baguio City, Philippines: Tebtebba Foundation
Torres Strait Regional Authority (2009)
Torres Strait development plan 2009-2013.
Thursday Island, Queensland: Torres Strait Regional Authority
United Nations University - Traditional Knowledge Initiative (2009)
Climate change experiences in Northern Australia - health, adaptation, fire management and global relevance.
Paper presented at the International Public Forum on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change - The Tropical Australian Experience. 3 April 2008, Darwin
Weir J (2009)
Murray River Country : an ecological dialogue with traditional owners.
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
Wohling M (2009)
The problem of scale in Indigenous knowledge: a perspective from northern Australia.
Ecology and Society; 14(1): 1
Retrieved 2009 from http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art1/
2008
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2008)
Native title report 2007.
Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
This report, released annually by the HREOC through the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, reports on the operation of the Native Title Act 1993 and its effect on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This year's native title report discusses recent amendments to Native Title law and policy in Australia and how these changes affect the land rights of Indigenous Australians. Four native title cases which document the issues arising from the interpretation of the Native Title Act by the common law are discussed. The report results in 25 recommendations.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Burgess CP, Berry HL, Gunthorpe W, Bailie RS (2008)
Development and preliminary validation of the 'Caring for Country' questionnaire: measurement of an Indigenous Australian health determinant.
International Journal for Equity in Health; 7(26): 43
Calma T (2008)
Speech at the Indigenous Climate Change and Land Use Management Conference.
Paper presented at the Indigenous Climate Change and Land Use Management Conference: Garma Festival of Traditional Culture. 7-8 August 2008, Arnhem Land
Campbell D, Smith MS, Daview J, Kuipers P, Wakerman J, McGregor MJ (2008)
Responding to health impacts of climate change in the Australian desert.
Rural and Remote Health; 8: 1008
Retrieved from http://www.rrh.org.au/publishedarticles/article_print_1008.pdf
Central Land Council (2008)
Central Land Council annual report 2007-2008.
Alice Springs: Central Land Council
Central Land Council (2008)
Central Land Council submission to NT Government: outstation policy discussion paper.
Alice Springs: Central Land Council
Desert Knowledge Australia (2008)
remoteFOCUS: revitalising remote Australia: prospectus.
Alice Springs: Desert Knowledge Australia
Dhimurru (2008)
Dhimurru IPA plan of management 2008-2015.
Nhulunbuy, NT: Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation
Fordham DA, Georges A, Brook BW (2008)
Indigenous harvest, exotic pig predation and local persistence of a long-lived vertebrate: managing a tropical freshwater turtle for sustainability and conservation.
Journal of Applied Ecology; 45(1): 52-62
Heckbert S, Davies J, Cook G, McIvor J, Bastin G, Liedloff A (2008)
Land management for emissions offsets on Indigenous lands.
Townsville, Qld: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Jackson S (2008)
Recognition of Indigenous interests in Australian water resource management, with particular reference to environmental flow assessment.
Geography Compass; 2(3): 874-898
Kingsley J, Townsend M, Phillips R, Aldous D (2008)
"If the land is healthy ... it makes the people healthy": the relationship between caring for country and health for the Yorta Yorta Nation, Boonwurrung and Bangerang Tribes.
Health & Place; 15(1): 291-299
Lane MB, Williams LJ (2008)
Color blind: Indigenous peoples and regional environmental management.
Journal of Planning Education and Research; 28(1): 38-49
Local Government Advisory Board (2008)
Report on the inquiry into local government service delivery to Indigenous communities.
Perth, WA: Western Australian Department of Local Government
Marley JV, Armstrong R, Morrison J, Yu P (2008)
Indigenous communities are ideally located to monitor and reduce the biosecurity risks associated with illegal foreign fishing and climate change in northern Australia.
Perth: North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA)
Matthews S (2008)
Kalka/Pipalyatjara country management plan 2009-2019: draft.
Alice Springs: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
Natural Resource Management (2008)
Caring for our country: outcomes 2008-2013.
Canberra: Natural Resource Management (NRM), Australia
New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (2008)
A submission from the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council to the Inquiry into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage.
Sydney: New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council
Pfueller SL (2008)
Role of bioregionalism in Bookmark Biosphere Reserve, Australia.
Environmental Conservation; 35(2): 173-186
Walsh FJ (2008)
To hunt and to hold : Martu Aboriginal people's uses and knowledge of their country, with implications for co-management in Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park and the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia.
Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Western Australia: Perth, WA
Western Australian Department of Health (2008)
Health impacts of climate change: adaptation strategies for Western Australia.
Perth: Western Australian Department of Health
Whitehead PJ, Purdon P, Russell-Smith J, Cooke PM, Sutton S (2008)
The management of climate change through prescribed savanna burning: emerging contributions of Indigenous people in northern Australia.
Public Administration and Development; 28(5): 374-385
2007
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2007)
Native title report 2006.
Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
The report examines the Government's economic reform agenda on Indigenous communal land, specifically the 99-year lease scheme that aims to provide home ownership opportunities on Indigenous land. It contains a national survey of Indigenous land owners, the findings of which indicate that although custodial responsibilities and land care were their first priority, nearly all respondents strongly supported economic development.
The report also makes a number of recommendations aimed at improving economic development opportunities for Indigenous people. It includes five case studies that document a range of Australian agreements and enterprises aimed at stimulating economic development on Indigenous land.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Altman JC, Buchanan GJ, Larsen L (2007)
The environmental significance of the Indigenous estate: natural resource management as economic development in remote Australia.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
This report explores the geography and the environmental significance of the Indigenous estate, and some of the innovative approaches Indigenous landholders have adopted to protect the natural and cultural values of their land. The paper also discusses programs that use a form of payment for environmental services (PES). These programs might provide alternate development opportunities on Indigenous estate in some of the remotest parts of Australia, areas far from mainstream labour markets.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Department of the Environment and Water Resources (2007)
Growing up strong: the first ten years of Indigenous Protected Areas in Australia.
Canberra: Department of the Environment and Water Resources
This publication presents a snapshot of the Indigenous Protected Area program on its tenth anniversary and aims to share with the wider community the important contributions Indigenous Protected Areas make to the environment and culture of the nation.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Garnett S, Sithole B (2007)
Sustainable northern landscapes and the nexus with Indigenous health: healthy country, healthy people.
Canberra: Land and Water Australia
Johnston FH, Jacups SP, Vickery AJ, Bowman DMJS (2007)
Ecohealth and Aboriginal testimony of the nexus between human health and place.
EcoHealth; 4(4): 489-499
McLean J (2007)
Water injustices and potential remedies in Indigenous rural contexts: a water justice analysis.
Environmentalist; 27(1): 25-38
Putnis A, Josif P, Woodward E (2007)
Healthy country, healthy people: supporting Indigenous engagement in the sustainable management of Northern Territory land and seas: a strategic framework.
Darwin: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Putnis A, Josif P, Woodward E (2007)
Healthy country, healthy people: supporting Indigenous engagement in the sustainable management of Northern Territory land and seas: a strategic framework executive summary.
Darwin: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Roughley A, Williams S (2007)
The engagement of Indigenous Australians in natural resource management: key findings and outcomes from Land & Water Australia and the broader literature: final report.
Canberra: Land & Water Australia
Sithole B, Hunter-Xenie H, Williams L, Saegenschnitter J, Yibarbuk D, Ryan M, Campion O, Yunupingu B, Liddy M, Watts E, Daniels C, Daniels G, Christophersen P, Cubillo V, Phillips E, Marika W, Jackson D, Barbour W (2007)
Aboriginal land and sea management in the Top End: a community driven evaluation.
Darwin: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Smith BR, Morphy F (2007)
The social effects of native title: recognition, translation, coexistence.
Canberra: Australian National University E Press
Watson NL (2007)
Implications of land rights reform for Indigenous health.
Medical Journal of Australia; 186(10): 534-536
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