Here’s some (i.e: when I remember to note them) of the articles I thought might be of interest I have been reading (also viewing or listening) recently that haven’t made it to the blog.
I hope you enjoy them.
Learning in Both Worlds looks at the loss of bilingual education in the Territory with the first four hours now in English. I think they are being optimistic that government will do the right thing – to change back to bilingual education.
ABC footage taken in Yuendumu in 1976 when language was strong. “m” is like two anthills, “a” is like a lump on the side of a tree.
Indigenous literacy gap must close is an opinion piece from a parent who moved from Perth to Broome and the huge disparity in literacy she found between the Aboriginal students compared to the rest.
Subsidised medicines: are we paying too much? looking at the cost of the Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme. Is it putting consumers at risk? Can we afford the cost? This podcast from “Australia Talks” on Radio National is worth listening to.
Desert shrinks get global gong. This Alice springs News article from August reports on the Sixth World Congress for Psychotherapy honouring the Aboriginal ngangkari (traditional healers) of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjtara Yankunytjatjara region with its Sigmund Freud Award the contribution to the field of psychotherapy.
How to write about Aboriginal Australia is a satirical view on how to.. well write about Aboriginal Australia. “First, be white.
If you are Aboriginal, you can certainly speak on behalf of every Aboriginal person in Australia but it is best to get a white person to write down what they think you should be saying.” and carries on from there.
Interstate Exodus, a recent program on Living Black looks at how the Aboriginal Health service at Coober pedy is coping with the more than doubling of the transient population from 3600 to close to 10000 as people flee the Intervention in the Northern Territory
50 Social Media Case Studies Worth Bookmarking. While there is no examples involving health or health education some of these case studes are worth a look.
Snobs and whingers: the new Australia. There’s nothing better than when I reach populated areas of sitting down with a freshly brewed coffee, fresh fruit and a newspaper on the same day it was printed and going out to dinner with friends. What you consider the normal things. So normal that you need to complain when the pattern on the froth on the cappucino is not quite centred. This article is in the same vein
Northern Territory Emergency Response Evaluation Report 2011. I’ve only scanned through this government “evaluation” but they seem to think a few surveys and a few calls for an opinion substitute for good research. Here’s an example: “A survey of 85 government and service providers conducted by the Allen Consulting Group found that 71 per cent of respondents thought that engagement approaches improved over time” – nice to consult the end user.
The authors of the chapters can’t be blamed – they can only work with the data they have.
The intervention is dead, long live the intervention This article by Jon Altman, though responding to a Closing the Gap report is a nice counterpoint to the Intervention evaluation above.