Aboriginal Disadvantage in Major Cities of New South Wales: Evidence for Holistic Policy Approaches

Reeve, Rebecca; Bradford, Wylie

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“…Despite the continuing resilience of these cultures, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people fare worse in terms of equity and opportunity than other Australians (AIHW, 2011). Although there is great diversity between and within language groups and disadvantage is not universal (Reeve & Bradford, 2014), it is the legacy of Australia's colonial history that, at the population level, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people suffer greater levels of poverty, lower levels of educational attainment and higher rates of chronic disease, suicide, incarceration and violence than other Australians (AIHW, 2011). This stark difference in the quality of life culminates in a life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that is more than 10 years shorter than for other Australians (AIHW, 2011) and is commonly referred to as ‘the gap’.…”

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Sport, Educational Engagement and Positive Youth Development: Reflections of Aboriginal Former Youth Sports Participants

Fitch

Ma’ayah

Harms

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Participation in sport during high school has been linked with a range of educational and developmental benefits. However, there is limited research investigating the benefits of participation in sport from the perspective of Aboriginal former youth sports participants. The purpose of the current research was to investigate how participation in sports impacted on the educational engagement, aspirations and development of Aboriginal former youth sports participants. Interpretive phenomenological analysis of semistructured interviews with six participants was conducted. Analysis was conducted utilising the Positive Youth Development asset framework. Participants reported a positive influence for their participation in youth sport on key education related assets including, achievement motivation, school engagement and relationships with teachers. Participants also reflected upon the role of participation in youth sports in the development of empowerment and positive identity assets. For these participants, involvement in youth sport had clear educational and developmental benefits. It is concluded that youth sports participation is one developmental context with the potential to have a positive influence on the educational and developmental trajectory of Aboriginal youth.

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Sport, Educational Engagement and Positive Youth Development: Reflections of Aboriginal Former Youth Sports Participants

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Ma’ayah

Harms

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“…However, evidence about the neighbourhood segregation of Indigenous peoples in cities is mixed, and they may also be at risk of being invisible within a larger population (Brand et al, 2016). Addressing this Indigenous disadvantage in cities requires integrated approaches to housing, social welfare, employment and training, entrepreneurship policies (Reeve and Bradford, 2014). There is also the possibility for cities to take a more active role in addressing Indigenous disadvantage with local partners and community representatives (OECD, 2018).…”

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Indigenous economic development and well-being in a place-based context

McDonald¹,

Moreno-Monroy²,

Springare³

2019

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This paper adapts the OECD Regional Development framework to places with an Indigenous population. It identifies the importance of flexibility in geographic scale for organising policies for Indigenous communities, development objectives that reflect the self-determined and informed choices of Indigenous peoples, and implementing strategies for development based on the identification of local assets.The OECD is a multi-disciplinary inter-governmental organisation of 36 member countries which engages in its work an increasing number of non-members from all regions of the world. The Organisation's core mission today is to help governments work together towards a stronger, cleaner, fairer global economy. Through its network of 250 specialised committees and working groups, the OECD provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice, and coordinate domestic and international policies. ABOUT THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKING PAPERSWorking papers from the Regional Development Policy Division of the OECD cover a full range of topics including regional statistics and analysis, urban governance and economics, rural governance and economics, and multi-level governance. Depending on the programme of work, the papers can cover specific topics such as regional innovation and networks, the determinants of regional growth or fiscal consolidation at the sub-national level.

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“…139 A small number of population based studies including analysis of multiple social and cultural determinants involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been conducted at the international, national, or state level. [370][371][372][373][374][375] A small number of other studies have looked at one specific SCEDH such as racism 339,374 or housing. 341,376,377 At an international level, one longitudinal study based on Census data for Indigenous peoples from Canada, New Zealand, and Australia found that while small gains in social determinants like employment, education, and income were occurring, the relative gap with non-Indigenous peoples was rising in each country and was the worst in Australia.…”

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“…370 National and state level studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in urban areas found associations between social determinants like unemployment, low education attainment, and low socioeconomic status with health outcomes such as social exclusion and psychological functioning or distress. 372,374,375,378 Both a Western Australian study of social determinants in adolescents and a Victorian study of social determinants in adults did not measure racism, but identified experiences of racism as being an important component of future research involving social determinants. 375,378 These national and international studies are valuable overviews of a select number of broad social determinants operating in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, but are missing many SCEDH important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and therefore the information they provide policy makers is incomplete and not community specific.…”

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Computerised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments in primary health care research

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There has been insufficient research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in urban areas to inform strategies required to improve inequitable health outcomes and life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The injustice of these health inequities motivated me to investigate the use of computerised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments in primary care as a source of research data which can be used to respond to community priorities. I conducted this research at the Inala Indigenous Health Service, a Queensland Government funded primary health care service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Inala is a suburb in south-western Brisbane with a strong sense of community and identity, but also significant social and economic challenges. Staff at the Inala Indigenous Health Service have been using Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments for both clinical and research purposes since their introduction in 2004 for adults, and 2006 for children.In this thesis, I used a mixed methods approach. The first two research projects of this thesis are situated in the postpositivist paradigm where researchers accept that scientific research produces evidence which helps establish the probability that a finding is true rather than truth itself. The first research project evaluated the feasibility of implementing computerised health assessments in primary care for dual clinical and research purposes.After finding that it was feasible, the second research project established that computerised health assessment data were sufficiently representative, complete, reliable, and valid to produce credible research findings.The final two research projects of this thesis are situated in the transformative paradigm with the explicit goal of improving the social world. I acknowledge that my position as a white, non-Indigenous, male, medical researcher influenced the conduct and outcome of all the research projects in this inquiry. To minimise the risk that this research would reproduce the damaging effects of research for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples conducted by non-Indigenous researchers, I listened to community voices to inform my approach to research using computerised health assessment information.I conducted a qualitative study involving thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with key informants in the Inala Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community regarding their priorities for health and research based on health assessment data. Rather than a discrete set of health priorities, key informants articulated an authoritative understanding of how interrelated, inter-generational, social, cultural, and environmental determinants of iii health operated in a "cycle" to influence the community's health. Furthermore, some key informants were ambivalent about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments because of their biomedical emphasis. These findings supported the addition of questions to health...

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Aboriginal Disadvantage in Major Cities of New South Wales: Evidence for Holistic Policy Approaches

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Sport, Educational Engagement and Positive Youth Development: Reflections of Aboriginal Former Youth Sports Participants

Sport, Educational Engagement and Positive Youth Development: Reflections of Aboriginal Former Youth Sports Participants

Indigenous economic development and well-being in a place-based context

Computerised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessments in primary health care research

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