Eight months after twin cyclones ravaged their Arnhem Land community of Galiwin'ku, Aboriginal residents say the storms had a silver lining.
From the mid-19th century to the 1960s, Australia, for example, put its Aboriginal residents under the jurisdiction of protection boards and corralled its Aboriginal population on reserves, says the Bring Them Home report, produced by the Australian Human Rights Commission in 1997.
While the aboriginal residents of Kakadu used patchwork burning to clear space and to reduce the risk of major fires, large parts of the park are now being burned deliberately and repeatedly without adequate consideration of the effects on wildlife.
The AHC was formed in 1973, out of a committee that won a grant from the Whitlam government to provide low-income housing for local Aboriginal residents.
Aboriginal residents along the Lake Huron shore north of Sarnia, ON, are voting today on the future of the land where Aboriginal protester Dudley George was killed 20 years ago this month.
The Block the heartland of Sydney's indigenous community since it was handed back in the 1970s was previously used by the AHC to provide low-income houses for local Aboriginal residents.
Indicator calculations are based on Aboriginal residents as determined by the health service.
It also has the largest number of Aboriginal residents (148 178), representing approximately 29% of the total Australian Aboriginal population [ 11].
Population denominators are derived from the number of Aboriginal residents who attended the health service in the preceding two years.
The primary outcomes are: prevalence of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and trichomonas in Aboriginal residents aged 16 34 years, and performance in clinical management of STIs based on best practice indicators.
This might be attributable to the fact that the aboriginal residents only have access to general practitioners and medical treatment by specialists is lacking.
