Aboriginal representations in Australian texts

Aboriginal Agency and Marginalisation in Australian Society

It is often argued that while state rhetoric may be inclusionary, policies and practices may be exclusionary. This can imply that the power to include rests only with the state. In some ways, the implication is valid in respect of Aboriginal Australians. For instance, the Australian state has gained control of Aboriginal inclusion via a singular, bounded category and Aboriginal ideal type. Howe...

Differences Between Values of Australian Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Students

Chronic chest disease in Australian aboriginal children.

was found, and 83 children with bronchiectasis and 35 with chronic bronchitis are described. All developed the disease at an early age, but, apart from bronchiolitis with dehydration, no specific aetiological factor could be found; tuberculosis, pertussis, and measles, in particular, have been virtually eradicated from this child population. The diseases described flourish in inferior social ci...

Serum urate concentrations in the Australian aboriginal.

Studies of indigenous Pacific peoples have often revealed populations with a high incidence of gout or with mean serum urate concentrations significantly higher than Caucasian populations. These have included the Maoris ofNew Zealand (Rose and Prior, 1963), Filipinos in Hawaii and Alaska (Decker, Lane, and Reynolds, 1962; Healey, Caner, and Decker, 1966a), the Chamorros and Carolinians of the M...

Dental caries among Australian Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal Australian-born, and overseas-born children.

Few studies have specifically compared the prevalence of dental caries among contemporary Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. Historically, Aboriginal groups have had substantially fewer dental caries than non-Aboriginal peoples. More recently, however, this trend appears to have been reversed, with improvements in the oral health of non-Aboriginal children and a deterioration in...