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Munbanda - Bush Tucker
(c1991)
Doris Gingingara
This artwork is provided by the Edith Cowan University Art Collection.
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The painting:
Around the big yam are different types of bush tucker, or Munbanda. There is Walila, a yam; Warpiritja, a kind of bush onion; Nalpur , a plant that is used for colouring leaves for making baskets; and Pinyi-pinya, another type of yam.
The artist:
Doris Gingingara was born in Maningrida Arnhemland in 1946. She spent her childhood in the traditional way with her parents and her tribe, hunting and gathering.
Policies and strategies
References and links to policies and strategies that address social and emotional wellbeing among Indigenous peoples are collected here, including National, State and Territory materials that address relevant issues in broader areas of social and emotional wellbeing.
Indigenous
National
2007
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2007)
National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health: progress against jurisdictional implementation plans, report to the Australian Health Minister's Conference, 1 July 2006 until 30 June 2007.
Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
View report (PDF - 188KB)
View website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Key result area four: emotional and social wellbeing
2006
Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (2006)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health performance
framework report 2006.
Canberra: Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council
View
report (PDF - 1.81MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Section 1.17 concentrates on social and emotional wellbeing
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2006)
National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health: progress against jurisdictional implementation
plans, report to the Australian Health Minister's Conference,
1 July 2005 until 30 June 2006.
Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health
View
report (PDF - 632KB)
View
website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health
Key result area four: emotional and social wellbeing
2005
Department of Health and Ageing (2005)
National strategic framework for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander health 2003-2013: Australian Government implementation plan 2003-2008.
Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
View
report (PDF - 963KB)
View
website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health
Key result area four: emotional and social wellbeing
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2005)
National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health: progress against jurisdictional implementation
plans, report to the Australian Health Minister's Conference,
1 July 2004 until 30 June 2005.
Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health
View
report (PDF 535 KB)
View
website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health
Key result area four: emotional and social wellbeing
Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
(SNAICC) (2005)
Achieving stable and culturally strong out-of-home care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
North Fitzroy, Vic: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and
Islander Child Care
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report (PDF - 835KB)
View website:
SNAICC
2004
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
(NACCHO) (2004)
NACCHO Community LIFE report.
Canberra: NACCHO
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
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report (HTML)
View website:
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
Social Health Reference Group (2004)
Social and emotional well being framework: a national
strategic framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
mental health and social and emotional well being 2004-2009.
Canberra: Australian Government
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
View
report (HTML)
View
website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health (OATSIH)
2003
Ministerial Council of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Affairs (2003)
Evaluation of responses to Bringing Them Home Report: final report.
Hobart: Office of Aboriginal Affairs, Department of Premier
and Cabinet
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report (PDF - 985KB)
View
website: Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Affairs
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council
(2003)
National strategic framework for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander health: framework for action by governments.
Canberra: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Council
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
View
report (PDF - 351KB)
View
website: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Council
Key result area four is emotional and social wellbeing
2001
Urbis Keys Young (2001)
Evaluation of the Emotional and Social Well Being (Mental
Health) Action Plan
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
View
report (PDF - 946KB)
View
website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Prior to 2001
Social Health Working Group (1996)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Emotional and Social
Well Being (Mental Health) Action Plan
Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health (OATSIH)
View
evaluation document - Appendix A:The Action Plan
(PDF - 946KB)
View
website: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health (OATSIH)
State
2007
NSW Health (2007)
NSW Aboriginal mental health and well being policy 2006 - 2010.
Sydney: NSW Health
View abstract: HealthBulletin
View
report (PDF - 2.5MB - large file warning!)
View
report (HTML)
View website: NSW Health
South Australian Social Inclusion Board (2007)
Stepping up: a social inclusion action plan for mental
health reform, 2007-2012.
Adelaide: Social Inclusion Initiative SA
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report (PDF - 961KB)
View
website: Social Inclusion Initiative SA
2006
ACT Health, Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
ACT Inc (2006)
A new way: the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
health and family wellbeing plan 2006 - 2011.
Canberra: ACT Health
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
View
report (PDF - 1MB - large file warning!)
View
website: ACT Health
View
website: Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service
2005
Cheney C, Milroy H, Fong N, Waters L (2005)
WA Aboriginal social and emotional well being and mental
health strategy 2005-2008 [draft policy].
Perth: Office of Mental Health
View
consultation document (PDF - 452KB)
View
website: Office of Mental Health
South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership (2005)
Knowing the business: South Australian Aboriginal health
indicators 2005.
Rundle Mall, SA: South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership
View
abstract: HealthBulletin
View
report (PDF - 4.9MB - large file warning!)
One of the indicators is 'mental health'.
View
website: Department of Health, South Australia
2004
Office of Children and Young People (2004)
Aboriginal child, youth and family strategy: resource kit.
Sydney: NSW Government
View
report (PDF - 780KB)
View website:
New South Wales Government
South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership (2004)
Social and emotional wellbeing: a South Australian strategy
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2005-2010.
Adelaide: South Australian Aboriginal Health Partnership
View
report (PDF - 1.01MB - large file warning!)
View
website: Department of Health, South Australia
2003
Atkinson G, Kerr S (2003)
The Purro Birik social and emotional wellbeing strategy
1999-2002 (Indigenous mental health services) evaluation report.
Fitzroy, VIC: Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
Organisations and Victorian Department of Human Services Mental
Health Branch
View
report (PDF - 3.59MB - large file warning!)
View website: VACCHO
Healthcare Management Advisors Pty Ltd. (2003)
Mental health service system development strategy project for the Northern Territory, final report.
Darwin: Department of Health and Community Services, Northern
Territory Government
View
report (PDF - 501KB)
View
website: Department of Health and Community Services
Northern Territory Emotional and Social Wellbeing Working
Party (2003)
NT Aboriginal emotional and social wellbeing strategic plan.
Darwin: Northern Territory Aboriginal Health Forum Emotional
and Social Wellbeing Working Party
View
report (Word Doc - 529KB)
View website:
Northern Territory Government
NSW Department of Health (2003)
Joint guarantee of service for people with mental health problems and disorders: living in Aboriginal, community and public housing.
North Sydney: NSW Department of Health
View
report (PDF - 333KB)
View
website: NSW Health
General
2007
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (2007)
LIFE: Living Is For Everyone. A framework for prevention of suicide in Australia.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
View report (HTML)
View report (PDF - 1.86MB - large file warning!)
View website: Living is for Everyone
Department of Health and Human Services (2007)
Review of the Mental Health Act 1996, issues paper.
Hobart: Department of Health and Human Services
View
report (PDF - 330KB)
View
website: Department of Health and Human Services
2006
Council of Australian Governments (COAG) (2006)
National Action Plan on mental health 2006-2011.
Canberra: Council of Australian Governments
View
report (PDF - 561KB)
View website:
Council of Australian Governments
Queensland Health, Queensland Alliance of Mental Illness
and Psychiatric Disability Groups Inc. (2006)
Mental health non-government organisations purchasing project: growing mental health services across the community, planning and priority setting report.
Brisbane: Queensland Health
View
report (PDF - 378KB)
View
website: Queensland Health
Senate Select Committee on Mental Health (2006)
A national approach to mental health: from crisis to community,
final report.
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
View
report (PDF - 150KB)
View
website: Senate Select Committee on Mental Health
Recommendations 89-91 relate specifically to Indigenous people
2005
Department of Health and Ageing (2005)
National mental health report 2005: summary of ten years of
reform in Australia’s mental health services under the
National Mental Health Strategy 1993-2003.
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
View
report (PDF - 2.17MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Department of Health and Ageing (2005)
National mental health information priorities.(2nd Ed.)
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
View
report (PDF - 697KB)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Kohn G, Morley B, Pirkis J, Blashki G, Burgess P (2005)
Evaluating the access to allied health services component
of the better outcomes in mental health care initiative: fourth
interim evaluation report.
Melbourne: Program Evaluation Unit, University of Melbourne
View
report (PDF - KB)
View
website: Program Evaluation Unit
2004
Department of Health and Ageing (2004)
National mental health report 2004: summary of changes
in Australia’s mental health services under the National
Mental Health Strategy 1993-2003.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
View
report (HTML)
View
report (PDF - 713KB)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Health Reform Implementation Taskforce (2004)
Western Australia's mental health strategy 2004-2007.
Perth: Office of Mental Health, Department of Health
View
report (PDF - 1.86MB - large file warning!)
View
website: Office of Mental Health
2003
Australian Health Ministers (2003)
National Mental Health Plan 2003-2008.
Canberra: Australian Government
View
report (PDF - 1.33MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Healthcare Management Advisors Pty Ltd. (2003)
Mental health service system development strategy project
for the Northern Territory.
Darwin: Department of Health and Community Services, Northern
Territory Government
View
report (PDF - 501KB)
View website:
Northern Territory Government
Northern Territory Government (2003)
Northern Territory strategic framework for suicide prevention: a framework for the prevention of suicide and self-harm in the Northern Territory 2003.
Darwin: Northern Territory Government
View
report (PDF - KB)
View website:
Northern Territory Government
Office of Mental Health (2003)
Partnerships support good outcomes: Western Australia's
state mental health strategic plan 2003-2008.
Perth: Department of Health
View
report (PDF - 1.67MB - large file warning!)
View
website: Office of Mental Health
Queensland Government (2003)
Reducing suicide: the Queensland Government suicide prevention strategy 2003-2008.
Brisbane: Queensland Government
View
report (PDF - 785KB)
View
website: Queensland Health
Steering Committee for the Evaluation of the Second National
Mental Health Plan 1998-2003 (2003)
Evaluation of the Second National Mental Health Plan.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
View
report (PDF - 1.05MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
2002
Mental Health and Special Programs Branch (2002)
National mental health report 2002: changes in Australia’s
mental health services under the first two years of the Second
National Mental Health Strategy 1998-2000.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
View
report (HTML)
View
report (PDF - 2.93MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Metropolitan Health and Aged Care Services Division (2002)
New directions for Victoria's Mental Health Services: the next five years.
Melbourne: Victorian Government Department of Human Services
View
report (PDF - 501KB)
View
website: Victorian Government Department of Human Services
Spence SH, Donald M, Dower J, Woodward R, Lacherez P (2002)
Outcomes and indicators, measurement tools and databases
for the National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and
Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
View
report (PDF - 705KB)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
2001
NSW Health Department (2001)
Getting in early: a framework for early intervention and
prevention in mental health for young people in NSW.
North Sydney: NSW Health Department
View
report (PDF - KB)
View
website: NSW Health
Prior to 2001
Australian Health Ministers (1998)
Second National Mental Health Plan
Canberra: National Mental Health Strategy
View
report (PDF - 152KB)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (2000)
National Action Plan for Depression
Canberra: Mental Health and Special Programs Branch
View
report (PDF - 282KB)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
Pages 23-27 concentrate specifically on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care (2000)
National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention & Early Intervention
for Mental Health 2000
Canberra: Mental Health and Special Programs Branch, Commonwealth
Department of Health and Aged Care
View
report (PDF - 1.79MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
National Health and Medical Research Council, Mental Health Branch (2000)
National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy: setting the evidence-based research agenda for Australia: a literature review.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
View report (PDF - 1.33MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
National Mental Health Strategy (2000)
Promotion, prevention and early intervention for mental
health, a monograph.
Canberra: Mental Health and Special Programs Branch, Commonwealth
Department of Health and Aged Care
View
report (PDF - 1.2MB - large file warning!)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
New South Wales Health Department (1999)
Suicide: we can all make a difference: NSW Suicide Prevention Strategy
Sydney: NSW Health
View
details (PDF - 343KB)
View
web pages: Suicide: we can all make a difference
View
website: NSW Health
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