While Australian Aboriginal conceptions of health have been described as holistic and collective, contemporary approaches to health services and health research are often premised on the rational, reflexive subject of neoliberal discourse. This paper considers how neoliberal conceptions of health and subjectivity arose and were negotiated in the context of a qualitative research project on Abor...

Strongyloidiasis, a disease caused by the parasitic gut nematode (roundworm), Strongyloides stercoralis, has the highest prevalence in the world in rural and remote Aboriginal communities of northern Australia. With prevalences greater than 25%, these communities have rates of strongyloidiasis higher those in the worst affected developing countries where surveys have been recently conducted. Av...

Adolescent pregnancy has been typically linked to a range of adverse outcomes for mother and child. In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have a higher proportion of adolescent births compared with other adolescent Australian women, and are at greater risk of poorer psychosocial and clinical outcomes if they are not well supported during pregnancy and beyond. Drawing on exis...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have lived successfully on the Australian continent for at least 40 000 years. Their quest for water, based on an intimate knowledge of their environment, particularly in arid Australia, was a skilled and specialised endeavour. Following the European occupation over 200 years ago, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population decreased rapidly...

BACKGROUND Otitis media (OM) is the most common paediatric illness for which antibiotics are prescribed. In Australian Aboriginal children OM is frequently asymptomatic and starts at a younger age, is more common and more likely to result in hearing loss than in non-Aboriginal children. Absent transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) may predict subsequent risk of OM. METHODS 100 Abori...

Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 21, Issues 1 and 2, pages 116-137, ISSN 1053-7147, online ISSN 1548-7458. ©2006 by the American Anthropological Association, all rights reserved. Send requests for permission to reprint to: Rights and Permissions, University of California Press; Journals Division; 2000 Center Street, Suite 303; Berkeley, CA 94704-1223. By now, it is well known that Aboriginal ...

Petrol sniffing (and other forms of inhalant misuse) occur within some Aboriginal communities across Australia. However, there is little documented information about the nature and combination of interventions that are most effective in addressing it. This article reviews published and unpublished literature relevant to petrol sniffing in Australian Aboriginal communities. A range of strategies...

With these words, Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, while launching the Year of Indigenous Peoples at Redfern Park in Sydney in December 1992, officially acknowledged that in the process of colonization, white Australia had denied generations of Aboriginal children their most precious and fundamental right-that of a mother's love and family's care. He further stressed that the starting po...

This paper is premised on several Australian Aboriginal myths (or sacred histories) from the Georgina River Basin region of Central Australia that concern the Triodia grasses known locally as spinifex (or aywerte). These sacred histories provide an epistemological foundation to the regional intellectual property over traditional spinifex technologies utilized for architectural, material and med...

Despite their ubiquity in intonational research, high rising terminal (HRT) intonation contours have not been investigated in Aboriginal varieties of Australian English. This paper investigates the form, alignment and use of declarative rises in the Aboriginal English spoken in Sydney. It is shown that Aboriginal speakers used five distinct types of declarative rises: high rises, low and high-r...