The approved program model will prioritise the safety of victim survivors through partner contact workers and bring together an understanding of the gendered drivers of DFSV, the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and the problematic use of alcohol and other drugs...
mind, family, community, culture, Country, spirit, and ancestors, is integral to maintaining good mental health. It is shaped by experiences of colonisation, intergenerational trauma, racism, and structural discrimination.
How did Aboriginal Australians resist British colonisation?British occupation of Australia began in 1788. The British authorities believed they were legally entitled to occupy the land and set up a permanent gaol for convicts. Later most immigrants believed that they were legitimate settlers in a new...
I would like to emphasize the high level of culture they have reached, their style of life, vividly related to nature, their sense of spiritual participation to the whole, which has been dramatically changed after the colonisation, the genocide and the "stolen generation", the difficult process...
Colonisation The devastating effects of European colonization is something all Indigenous Australian communities have had to overcome. You could say that another key quality of Aboriginal culture is resilience. Many artists have explored the collision of Indigenous and European cultures in their art. They...
As all Aboriginal-specific mitochondrial haplogroups are of great antiquity, show considerable substructure, and are (mostly) very widely dispersed across the Australian continent while not being present outside Australia, it can be inferred that after initial colonisation some 50 KYA there has been ...
Over the past decades, increasing research interest has been directed towards the psychosocial factors that impact Aboriginal health, including stress, coping and social support. However, there has been no study that examined whether the behaviours, cogn
“And everyone is like one big family and we all look after each other’s kids through good and bad times… and we know that we have that here.” (p. 1) When participants considered the role of alcohol in family and community life, togetherness was the foremost driver of gatherings. Si...
Aboriginal Art is the longest continuous artistic tradition in the world, stretching back generation after generation for over thirty millennia. It preceded all the great civilizations and survived as each of them faded. From the 18th century it endured the colonisation, marginalisation and oppression...
The colonisation of Australia and associated forced displacement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from their homelands, genocide and slavery, destruction of families, communities, and cultural practices, introduction of addictive substances, and ongoing discrimination, disadvantage, exclusion, ...