Family Matters article Jun 2001
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Parenting in the Torres Strait Islands
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Commissioned report Mar 2012
Increasing Indigenous employment rates
An overview of the research evidence on why Indigenous Australians have much lower employment rates than non-Indigenous Australians.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Children's exposure to parental and familial adversities
Family Matters article
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Family Matters article Apr 2011
Unfit mothers ... unjust practices?
This article discusses the wealth of material on adoption in Australia, which include historical records, analyses of historical practices, case studies, expert opinions, personal testimony provided to two parliamentary inquiries, but the limited empirical research on the issue of past-adoption practices and its impact on those involved.
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Family Matters article Dec 2011
The neurobiological effects of childhood maltreatment
This paper reviews some of the recent research that has analysed the outcomes of child maltreatment as seen through the lens of the disciplines of neuroscience, psychopathology, traumatology and related fields.
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Family Matters article Dec 2011
Childhood trauma and psychosis
Family Matters article on childhood trauma and directions for clinical interventions
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The rights of indigenous peoples in the International Year of the Family
This article, the second of four papers focusing on disadvantaged families in this issue of 'Family Matters', begins by examining the historical relationship between the state and indigenous peoples of Australia.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Torres Strait Islander family life
This article presents a collection of papers on family life amongst Torres Strait Islanders.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
The first Australians: Kinship, family and identity
This paper on Aboriginal families and kinship begins by briefly discussing what Aboriginal life was like before 'British invasion' in 1788, then examines current Aboriginal family life and how Aborigines have retained their Aboriginal identity.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Aboriginal children: Back to origins
This article begins by looking at landmark events of 1993 for Aboriginal people, including the United Nations International Year of the World's Indigenous People and the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Melbourne office of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), before turning to the widespread practice which occurred between the 1930s and the 1970s of the wholesale removal of Aboriginal children from their families and their adoption into white families.