Publications

Discourse, Deficit and Strength. Changing the Narrative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing

Author/editor: Fogarty, William, Lovell, Melissa, Langenberg, Juleigh & Heron, Mary-Jane

Year published: 2018

This report explores strengths-based approaches to shifting the deficit narrative in the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector. Studies, including a companion report to this one entitled Deficit Discourse and Indigenous Health: How Narrative Framings of Aboriginal and…

Jewish Post-Holocaust Migration and Musical Migration

Author/editor: Boucher, Anna

Year published: 2018

Navigating the Political Landscape of Australian Criminal Justice Reform: Senior Policy-makers on Alternatives to Incarceration

Author/editor: Lovell, Melissa, Guthrie, Jill, Simpson, Paul & Butler, Tony

Year published: 2018

Abstract: Political ideology and populism are often thought to be major impediments to criminal justice reform. Our research has attempted to deconstruct these ideas so that the robustness of the ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice policy can be better understood. This article reports upon in-depth…

Out of the Depths: Complexity, Subjectivity and Materiality in the Earliest Accounts of Holocaust Song-Making

Author/editor: Toltz, Joseph & Boucher, Anna

Year published: 2018

‘The Vulnerability and Delinquency of the Aboriginal Child. Implications of Representations of Indigenous Childhood for Indigenous-Settler Relations’.

Author/editor: Lovell, Melissa

Year published: 2018

The figure of the Aboriginal child features prominently in political narratives within the Australian Indigenous Affairs policy space. In this presentation I want to consider how Indigenous children are represented in Australian political discourse, but also to situate this within the particular…

African Popular Music, Politics and Belonging in Australia

Author/editor: McConnell, Bonnie B.

Year published: 2017

Decolonising the Past: African Popular Music and Diasporic Heritage in Australia

Author/editor: McConnell, Bonnie B.

Year published: 2017

This paper investigates notions of diasporic heritage and identity through the lens of contemporary African Australian popular music. People of African descent have been in Australia since 1788, but they continue to experience exclusion and high levels of racial discrimination. Representations of…

Indigenous Education and Literacy Policy in Australia: Bringing Learning Back to the Debate

Author/editor: Fogarty, William, Riddle, Stewart, Lovell, Melissa & Wilson, Ben

Year published: 2017

Abstract: In a policy landscape dominated by forces that seek to continually reshape education according to market logics, there are particular impacts on the seemingly intractable crisis of Indigenous education policy making. Entrenched discourses of deficit result in education policy…

Indigenous Self-Determination and International Law

Author/editor: Dodson, Mick, Wood, Asmi & Bailey, Peter

Year published: 2017

This year’s National Reconciliation Week marks the 25th anniversary of the Mabo decision, which provided legal recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a special relationship to the land. However, despite support in the UN for self-determination, until quite recently,…