Publications: specific topics

Publications about various aspects of Indigenous alcohol misuse have been provided under the topics listed below. Included on this page are journal articles, reports, theses, and other literature about regulation and control.

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Regulation and control


2008

Henderson-Yates L, Wagner S, Parker H, Yates D (2008)
Fitzroy Valley liquor restriction report: an evaluation of the effects of a six month restriction on take-away alcohol relating to measurable health and social benefits and community perceptions and behaviours.
Perth: Drug and Alcohol Office (WA)
View report (HTML)
View report (PDF - 5.2MB - large file warning!)
View website: Drug and Alcohol Office

Roche AM, Pidd K, Bywood P, Duraisingam P, Steenson T, et al. (2008)
Drug testing in schools evidence, impacts and alternatives. (ANCD research paper 16)
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs
View report (PDF - 1.4MB - large file warning!)
Contains information on Indigenous people in section 4.1.2
View website: Australian National Council on Drugs

Weatherburn DJ (2008)
The role of drug and alcohol policy in reducing Indigenous over-representation in prison.
Drug and Alcohol Review;27(1):91-94
View abstract: Informaworld
View website: Drug and Alcohol Review

2007

National Drug Research Institute (2007)
Restrictions on the sale and supply of alcohol: evidence and outcomes.
Perth: National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology
View report (PDF - 2.47MB - large file warning!)
View website: National Drug Research Institute

Nicholas R (2007)
Alcohol and other drug problems among Indigenous Australians from rural and remote regions: a policing perspective.
Canberra: Australasian Centre for Policing Research
View report (PDF - 283KB)
View website: Australasian Centre for Policing Research

Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community (2007)
Substance abuse in remote communities: confronting the confusion and disconnection.
Darwin: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
View report (PDF - 616KB)
View website: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory

2006

Delahunty B, Putt J (2006)
Good practice framework: policing illicit drugs in rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
View report - (PDF - 288KB)
View website: The National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund

Delahunty B, Putt J (2006)
The policing implications of cannabis, amphetamine and other illicit drug use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View report
(PDF - 703KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
View website: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Hogan E, Boffa J, Rosewarne C, Bell S, Ah Chee D (2006)
What price do we pay to prevent alcohol-related harms in Aboriginal communities?: the Alice Springs trial of liquor licensing restrictions.
Drug and Alcohol Review;25(3):207-212
View abstract: Drug and Alcohol Review
View website: Taylor and Francis (publishers)

2005

Nicholas R, Shoobridge J (2005)
Alcohol and other drug issues facing policing in Australia.
Payneham, SA: Australasian Centre for Policing Research
View report (PDF - 462KB)
View website: Australasian Centre for Policing Research

2003

Tangentyere Council Incorporated, National Drug Research Institute, Centre for Remote Health (2003)
A survey of the attitudes of Aboriginal town camp residents to the Alice Springs liquor licensing restrictions: a submission to the Northern Territory Licensing Commission.
Perth: National Drug Research Institute
View report (PDF - 149KB)
View website: National Drug Research Institute

2000

d'Abbs P, Togni S (2000)
Liquor licensing and community action in regional and remote Australia: a review of recent initiatives.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;24(1):45-53.
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View abstract: PubMed
View website: National Center for Biotechnology Information

Gray D (2000)
Indigenous Australians and liquor licensing restrictions.
Addiction;95(10):1469-1472.
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View website: Blackwell Synergy (publishers)

Gray D, Saggers S, Atkinson D, Sputore B, Bourbon D (2000)
Beating the grog: an evaluation of the Tennant Creek liquor licensing restrictions.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;24(1):39-44.
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View website: Public Health Association of Australia

1997

Togni S (1997)
Liquor, law and community: an evaluation of local responses to alcohol misuse and related offending in a remote Kimberley town.
Unpublished Master of Arts thesis,
University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
View website: University of Melbourne

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Last updated: 1 December 2008