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General

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2005
  • National Public Health Partnership (2005) The national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander safety promotion strategy. Canberra: National Public Health Partnership
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2004
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Injury Prevention Action Committee (2004) The draft national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander safety promotion strategy. Canberra: National Public Health Partnership
    View abstract: HealthBulletin
    View report (PDF - 139KB)
  • Clapham K (2004) Injury prevention activity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: volume 2: Programs, projects and actions. Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
    View report (PDF - 714KB)
    View website: Department of Health and Ageing
  • Moller J, Thomson N, Brooks J (2004) Injury prevention activity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Volume 1: Current status and future directions. Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
    View report (PDF - 893KB)
    View website: Department of Health and Ageing
2003
  • Thomson N, Brooks J (2003) Injury. In: Thomson N, ed. The health of Indigenous Australians.
    South Melbourne: Oxford University Press:442-466
2002
  • Anderson I (2002) Understanding Indigenous violence [editorial]. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health ;26(5):408-409
    View website: Public Health Association of Australia
  • Atkinson J (2002) Trauma trails: recreating song lines: the transgenerational effects of trauma in Indigenous Australia. North Melbourne: Spinifex Press
2001

Family violence and sexual abuse

2007
  • Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (2007) Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle - 'Little children are sacred': Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse. Darwin: Northern Territory Government
    View summary (PDF - 900KB)
    View report (PDF - 6.3MB - large file warning!)
    View website: Northern Territory Government
2006
2005
2004
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2004) Addressing family violence in Indigenous communities. Social justice report 2003. Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission:155-191
    View report
    View website: Australian Human Rights Commission
  • Cheers B, Binell M, Coleman H, Gentle I, Miller G, et al. (2004) Family violence: an Australian Indigenous community tells its story. Australian Journal of Social Work ;57(1):71-82
  • Taylor J, Cheers B, Weetra C, Gentle I (2004) Supporting community solutions to family violence. Australian Journal of Social Work ;57(1):71-83
2003
  • Victorian Indigenous Family Violence Task Force (2003) Victorian Indigenous Family Violence Task Force: final report, December 2003. Melbourne: Aboriginal Affairs Victoria
    View abstract: HealthBulletin
2002
  • Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development (2000) The next step: Queensland Government response to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence report.
    Brisbane: Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development
  • Gordon S, Hallahan K, Henry D (2002) Putting the picture together, inquiry into response by government agencies to complaints of family violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communities. Perth: Department of Premier and Cabinet
    View report (PDF - 4.5MB - large file warning!)
    View website: Premier of Western Australia
2000
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence (2000) The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence report. Brisbane: Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development, Queensland Government
  • Queensland Government (2000) Queensland government response to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's task force on violence: the first step. Brisbane: Queensland Government

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Self-harm and suicide

2006
2003
  • Delaney P, Raphael B, Wooding S (2003) Suicide and self-harm. In: Couzos S, Murray R, eds. Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach. 2nd ed. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press
2002
  • Parker R, Ben-Tovim DI (2002) A study of factors affecting suicide in Aboriginal and 'other' populations in the Top End of the Northern Territory through an audit of coronial records. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry ;36:404-410
    View abstract: HealthBulletin
2001
  • Capp K, Deane FP, Lambert G (2001) Suicide prevention in Aboriginal communities: application of community gatekeeper training. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health ;25(4):315-321
  • Hunter E, Reser J, Baird M, Reser P (2001) An analysis of suicide in Indigenous communities of North Queensland: the historical, cultural and symbolic landscape. Cairns: University of Queensland, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service & the Yarrabah Community Council, James Cook University of North Queensland, School of Psychology and Sociology
  • Tatz C (2001) Aboriginal suicide is different: a portrait of life and self-destruction. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press

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Assault and inter-personal violence

2005
2001
  • Mouzos J (2001) Indigenous and non-Indigenous homicides in Australia : a comparative analysis. Trends and issues in crime and criminal justice. no. 210 Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology

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