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- The Kakadu camp
- Oxfam is helping to train the next generation of Indigenous health professionals.
- A time for hope, healing and health
- We take a look at some successful programs being driven by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Protocols (PDF 165KB)
- Time to reflect
- Oxfam Australia met with partner organisations in Alice Springs to reflect on our work and plan for the future.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Program Strategic Plan (PDF 584KB)
- The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' (ATSIP) Program Strategic Plan 2007-2013 outlines what the ATSIP Program will do over the next six years to achieve its key objectives, consistent with the values of Oxfam Australia.
- Reconciliation Action Plan (October 2007) (PDF 222KB)
- In June 2006, Oxfam Australia was invited by Reconciliation Australia to develop a Reconciliation Action Plan. Our plan outlines our commitment to work towards reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and other Australians and a better future for us all. This report identifies our achievements over the past 12 months and our commitments for the future.
- Our program (Audio file: 4:41 mins, 4.4MB MP3)
- Indigenous Australia Program Manager Fiona Moore talks about our work with Indigenous communities.
- Koori possum skin cloaks
- Oxfam Australia is proud to have glass panels in the foyer which have deep historical links to Koori communities in Victoria.
- A confronting moment
- Oxfam Australia sponsored Jirra Harvey to attend the Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network forum in Baguio City, Philippines.
- A healthy future
- Oxfam is supporting the next generation of Indigenous health leaders in the Northern Territory.
- Delivering on the promise of the 1967 referendum for Indigenous Australians (21 August 2007)
- Speech given by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma as part of the Hyllus Maris Annual Memorial Lecture, La Trobe University, 21 August 2007.
- Small actions, big outcomes
- Sarah Patrick is a young Indigenous Australian hip hop artist and Oxfam International Youth Partnerships participant. Here she reflects on her leadership journey.
- Close the Gap: Solutions to the Indigenous Health Crisis facing Australia (PDF 1MB) (March 2007)
- Australia is ranked bottom of a league table of wealthy nations working to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples, according to this report published by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and Oxfam Australia.
- The Health and Welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 2005
- This report, prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, provides a comprehensive overview of the health and welfare of Australia's Indigenous population, presenting the latest information on population, housing circumstances, health risk factors, disability prevalence, health status and the availability, resourcing and use of services.
- The Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration (PDF 114KB) (September 2006)
- Professor Larissa Behrendt, one of Australia’s most highly regarded indigenous rights advocates, spoke at the 2006 Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration. The Oration is a partnership between the Don Dunstan Foundation and Oxfam Australia. Read the transcript (pdf, 114kB) or listen to the recording (mp3, 9MB) of Professor Behrendt's lecture 'Reclaiming the Human Rights Vision – a pathway for Reconciliation.'
- Commonwealth Games briefing paper: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (pdf 152kb).
- Oxfam Australia's briefing paper draws on research showing that while New Zealand and Canada have made great strides in improving the health of their Indigenous people, Australia has dropped the baton, with little improvement in indigenous health over recent decades. (March 2006)
- Land Rights and Development Reform in Remote Australia (pdf 3.32Mb).
- Oxfam Australia's report focuses on the Northern Territory and tests whether converting communal ownership of Aboriginal land to individual title will bring the type of changes the Federal Government has said it's aiming for – increased economic development and private home ownership. The report finds that individualising communal land is neither necessary nor sufficient to achieve these goals. (August 2005)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Social Justice Report 2005