Social issues
This webpage is intended to be a starting point for finding resources relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples history, culture and knowledge, with a focus on social issues.
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Books
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
Location Number: Online
ISBN: 9781863959810
Publication Date: 2018
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging. What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question.
Indigenous Homelessness by Evelyn J Peters (editor)
Location Number: Online
ISBN: 0887558267
Publication Date: 2016
Being homeless in one's homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. Essays in this collection explore the meaning and scope of Indigenous homelessness in the Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Indifferent Inclusion by Russell McGregor
Location Number: Online
Publication Date: 2011
Combines the perspectives of political, social and cultural history in a coherent narrative,
Sharing Spaces by Gus Worby & Lester-Irabinna Rigney (editors)
Location Number: 306.089 S531.W
ISBN: 1920845208
Publication Date: 2006
A collection of conversations and essays by Elders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars addresses a range of contemporary issues including the politics of space sharing derived from a colonial history of non-sharing, the relationship between the stories Australians tell themselves about their place as a nation.
Databases
Informit Indigenous Peoples Collection
A collection of 12 index, abstract and full-text databases focusing on a broad range of subjects relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Journals
Reconciliation news by Reconciliation Australia
Location Number: Online
Publication Date: 2005
Annual report on Indigenous affairs by Australia Secretaries' Group on Indigenous Affairs
Location Number: Online
Publication Date: 2005
Overcoming indigenous disadvantage : key indicators by Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision
Location Number: Online
Publication Date: 2003
Informs governments and Indigenous people about whether policies and programs are achieving positive outcomes
Websites
News, programs, video, stories, language map and more.
AIATIS: Australian Institute of Torres Straight Islander Studies
The world's leading research, collecting and publishing institution in the field of Australian Indigenous studies
Australian Human Rights Commission: Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Social Justice
Reviews the impact of laws and policies on Indigenous peoples, reports on Indigenous social justice and native title issues and promotes an Indigenous perspective on issues.
Australian Policy Online: Indigenous
Research database and alert service providing free access reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development.
Publications relating to the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.
Indigenous Portal (Australian Government)
Information of interest to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians or those working in Indigenous affairs. Includes Closing the Gap.
Videos
EduTV (Informit)
An online streaming resource.with over 50 000 TV programs screened since 2007 on pay and free-to-air TV, including documentaries, drama and series. A resource for teaching and learning and allows institutions to derive maximum benefit from our Screenrights broadcast licence.
Library access to this resource is not available from outside of Australia
Kanopy Streaming Video
Streaming video collection covering Education, Health, Sciences, Humanities, the Arts, Business and Media. Features award winning features but also obscure, important archival film.
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