The unique relationship Aboriginal peoples have with the land has been highlighted in recent years with the passing of the Native Title Act 1993. The vastly different characteristics of Aboriginal land tenure to the Australian Torrens systems makes it difficult for the integration of the two tenure systems into one land registration system. A better understanding of Aboriginal land tenure and a...

In recognition of the critical need to improve food security for Aboriginal people in Victoria, the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (VACCHO) partnered with SecondBite, an Australian food rescue organisation. In 2013, the two organisations initiated a crosssectional survey of community food programs (CFPs) targeting Victorian Aboriginal people. CFPs describe any ini...

1. Joanna Briggs Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Centre of Research Excellence in Aboriginal Chronic Disease Knowledge Translation and Exchange 2. Wardliparingga Aboriginal Research Unit, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia and Centre of Research Excellence in Aboriginal Chronic Disease Knowledge Translation a...

INTRODUCTION Australian medical schools have taken on a social accountability mandate to provide culturally safe contexts in order to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to engage in medical education and to ensure that present and future clinicians provide health services that contribute to improving the health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Many ...

There are currently about 156 000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in New South Wales (NSW), representing 2.3% of the total NSW population, and equating to 29% of the total Australian Aboriginal population. In this special issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin, in accordance with NSWHealth policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are referred to as Aboriginal in...

Australian Aborigines have much higher rates of illness and life expectancy up to twenty years lower than the Australian population as a whole. Community based primary health care to Aborigines in the Northern Territory of Australia has historically been under-resourced in part due to distinctive characteristics of the Australian health care funding system which has disadvantaged rural and remo...

In a review of 46 meta-analyses of gender differences, overhand throwing had the largest gender difference favoring boys (ES > 3.0). Expectations for gender-specific performances may be less pronounced in female Australian Aborigines, because historical accounts state they threw for defense and hunting. Overhand throwing velocities and kinematics were recorded in 30 female and male Aboriginal A...

BACKGROUND Despite a decade of substantial investments in programs to improve access to primary care for Aboriginal mothers and infants, more than 50% of Western Australian Aboriginal babies are still not receiving primary and preventative care in the early months of life. Western Australian hospitals now input birth data into the Western Australian electronic clinical management system within ...

Traditional Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies value men's role as parents; however, the importance of promoting fatherhood as a key social determinant of men's well-being has not been fully appreciated in Western medicine. To strengthen the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male parenting role, it is vital to examine current barriers and opportunities. The first aut...

OBJECTIVES Study objectives were: 1) to describe the differences in the prevalence of CHD risk factors between Aboriginal people in a remote community and the general Australian population; and 2) to compare the predicted risks of CHD events between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS 681 Aboriginal adults aged 25 to 74 years. RESULTS Ab...