Torres Strait Islanders under ‘the Act’
Location and socioeconomic status: Torres Strait Islanders, 1996
... environment Torres Strait In Torres Strait, Islanders live in the regional centre of Thursday Island and in small Indigenous communities on the scattered islands of the ...for ...
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My island home: a study of identity across different generations of Torres Strait Islanders living outside the Torres Strait
... ‘exemptions’ under the Act or similarly being asked to leave the Torres Strait by the authorities based on perceptions of being ...many Torres Strait Islander families, including ...
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Torres Strait Islanders and fisheries: an analysis of economic development programs. Bill Arthur
... of Torres Strait Islanders 1 within the regions fishery (hereafter the ...The Torres Strait fishery can be characterised in a number of ...for Torres Strait Islander ...
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Comparative validation of self-report measures of negative attitudes towards Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders
... groups act as major barriers to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders seeking help from mental health services and psychologists, and may to contribute to ethnic disparities in ...
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Torres Strait Islanders and Autonomy: a Borderline Case
... with Torres Strait clearly place themselves in an Aboriginal, rather than an Islander ...from Islanders in much the same way as mainland Islanders express the wish to be separate from ...
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A Torres Strait Islanders Commission? Possibilities and issues
... The final brief section of the paper attempts to clarify relationships between reform towards a Torres Strait Islanders Commission, or better representation and funding arrangements with[r] ...
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Education, training and careers: young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999
... Communities who wish to train their young members must also have the relevant levels of infrastructure, the instructors and a commitment from community leaders. As noted in the foreword, this is one of a set of three ...
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Job-searching and careers: young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999
... in Torres Strait are likely to use informal strategies when searching for jobs or training; these include approaching employers and trainers directly or using the contacts of family or ...
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A Novel Approach to Tradition: Torres Strait Islanders and Ion Idriess
... As Beckett (pers. It would seem that the role of contemporary anthropologists has been crucial in bringing the Reports to light on specific islands on which they hav[r] ...
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Food insecurity among older aboriginal and torres strait islanders
... and Torres Strait Islanders residing in private dwellings and excludes a range of other vulnerable populations such as the homeless, those in poor health living in care facilities or ...and ...
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Careers and aspirations: young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999-2003
... In Torres Strait, where training and employment options are limited, it seems unfortunate that opportunities can be lost in this way, especially as many males aspire to careers in trades (see ...approach ...
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My island home: a study of identity across different generations of Torres Strait Islanders living outside the Torres Strait
... of Torres Strait Islanders living outside the Torres Strait (also referred to as ...of Islanders living outside the Torres Strait; secondly, to analyse critical ...
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Career aspirations and orientation to work: young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999
... the Torres Strait were critical of the part-time nature of the CDEP work and indeed, a few people actually valued this because it gave them the opportunity to go commercial fishing on their week ...
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Murri Way! Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders reconstruct social welfare practice
... 7. Significant Aspects of Indigenous Cultural Diversity While many of the workers believed that there was a 'Murri way' or 'black way' they also emphasised that strong differences existed between Aborigines and ...
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Barriers to insulin treatment among Australian Torres Strait Islanders with poorly controlled diabetes
... Torres Strait Islanders have the highest prevalence of diabetes in Australia, and high rates of avoidable complications, especially renal failure, skin ulceration and lower limb ...
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CDEP as urban enterprise: The case of Yarnteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation, Newcastle
... A number of special factors are evident, including the previous experience in employment and training existing within the organisation before it undertook the CDEP scheme and enterprise [r] ...
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Torres Strait Islanders' experiences of contemporary out-movement: a grounded theory of 'Living in Two Worlds'
... our lands, waters and skies. There are too many laws - other people’s laws - that restrict our freedom to live outside modernity. I have witnessed significant changes in my own lifetime, and traveling to the remote ...
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High risk alcohol-related trauma among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Northern Territory
... Rama Jayaraj 1 , Mahiban Thomas 2 , Valerie Thomson 3 , Carolyn Griffin 3 , Luke Mayo 3 , Megan Whitty 3 , Peter d ’ Abbs 3 and Tricia Nagel 3* Abstract High risk drinking is linked with high rates of physical harm. The ...
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The cultural interface: an exploration of the intersection of Western knowledge systems and Torres Strait Islanders positions and experiences
... It was in the corpus of knowledges that passes for my lifeworld, that I began to see the acceptance and supremacy of my constituted position: via another history forged by non-Islander i[r] ...
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The cultural interface: an exploration of the intersection of Western knowledge systems and Torres Strait Islanders positions and experiences
... But, his standpoint in History is also clear when he begins to propose the notion that maturation stages in the grammar of a language can be used to compare it with another: "[a]lthough [r] ...
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