Cherbourg State School in Historical Context by Grace Sarra

“…It is situated in an Aboriginal community at Cherbourg with approximately 250 students, all of whom are Indigenous Australian children. Cherbourg State School aims to generate good academic outcomes for its students from kindergarten to Year 7 and nurture a strong and positive sense of what it means to be Aboriginal in today's society. …”
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Directions for research practice in decolonising methodologies: Contending with paradox by Tamara A Lipscombe, Antonia Hendrick, Peta L Dzidic, Darren C Garvey, Brian Bishop

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Australian Objects in the Religious Studies Collection at the University of Münster: The “Pater Worms Collection” as a Case of Inter-Religious Contact by Patrick Felix Krüger, Martin Radermacher

“…It is not the goal of this paper to attempt a thorough ethnological analysis of the objects; instead, we discuss how these objects from indigenous Australian cultures were included in a collection of religious artefacts owned by the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Münster and to what extent the founder of the collection, Anton Antweiler, considered these objects expressions of the religions and religious history of Australia. …”
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Past and future potential range changes in one of the last large vertebrates of the Australian continent, the emu Dromaius novaehollandiae by Julia Ryeland, Tristan T. Derham, Ricky J. Spencer

“…Abstract In Australia, significant shifts in species distribution have occurred with the loss of megafauna, changes in indigenous Australian fire regime and land-use changes with European settlement. …”
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Potential use of serum based quantitative real-time PCR for the detection of pneumonia pathogens in a densely colonised population by Jana Y R Lai, Michael J Binks, Mirjam Kaestli, Amanda J Leach, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan

“…Here we validate quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assays for the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae in: (a) spiked serum samples and (b) in matched serum and nasopharyngeal swabs from a population of Indigenous Australian children without pneumonia, but with a high nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence of S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae. …”
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Making cultures count: transforming indigenous health data in Australia by Bourke, SC

“… <p>To date, national statistics have placed Indigenous Australians and their health in constant comparison with non-Indigenous Australians. …”

Improvements in Indigenous mortality in the Northern Territory over four decades by John R. Condon, Tony Barnes, Joan Cunningham, Len Smith

“…Abstract Objective:To provide the first report of long‐term mortality trends over recent decades for an Indigenous Australian population. Very little information is available about improvements over time, or lack thereof, in the health status of Indigenous Australians. …”
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Supporting holistic care for patients with tuberculosis in a remote Indigenous community: a case report by Andrea Miller, Alice Cairns, Annah Richardson, Jill Lawrence

“…In Australia, TB has been virtually eradicated in non-Indigenous Australian-born populations but in remote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities TB presents a rare but significant public health issue. …”
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Settler-Colonial Spatial Logics and Indigenous internal (non)Migration in Australia by Sarah Prout Quicke

“…The empirical data presented in this paper suggest that the Indigenous Australian population is probably experiencing an urban transition at a similar rate to many more rurally-based societies in Asia and Africa. …”
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Untargeted and Targeted Metabolomic Profiling of Australian Indigenous Fruits by Vuanghao Lim, Sara Ghorbani Gorji, Venea Dara Daygon, Melissa Fitzgerald

“…Based on the untargeted and targeted metabolomics, and antioxidant assays, the nutritional potential of these Australian bush fruits is considerable and supports these indigenous fruits in the nutraceutical industry as well as functional ingredients for the food industry, with such outcomes benefiting Indigenous Australian communities.…”
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A variable region within the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae contributes to strain-strain variation in virulence. by Richard M Harvey, Uwe H Stroeher, Abiodun D Ogunniyi, Heidi C Smith-Vaughan, Amanda J Leach, James C Paton

“…Therefore, the isolation of rare serotype 1 carriage strains in Indigenous Australian communities provided a unique opportunity to compare the genomes of non-invasive and invasive isolates of the same serotype in order to identify such factors. …”
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Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition by Omid Tofighian, Rachael Swain, Dalisa Pigram, Bhenji Ra, Chandler Connell, Emmanuel James Brown, Feras Shaheen, Issa El Assaad, Luke Currie-Richardson, Miranda Wheen, Czack (Ses) Bero, Zachary Lopez

“…The production, created between 2019–2021, brings together collaborations through and across Indigenous Australian, Kurdish, Iranian, Palestinian, Filipino, Filipinx, and Anglo settler performance, activism and knowledge production. …”
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Water supply and sanitation in remote Indigenous communities‐priorities for health development by Ross S. Bailie, Bronwyn E. Carson, Elizabeth L. McDonald

“…Abstract Objective:To review available national and State/Territory survey data on water supply and sanitation in remote Indigenous Australian communities and to discuss the findings in terms of priorities for health and infrastructure development. …”
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Suicides in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: analysis of Queensland Suicide Register by Rebecca Soole, Kairi Kõlves, Diego De Leo

“…Abstract Objective: Suicide rates among Indigenous Australian children are higher than for other Australian children. …”
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The complete genome and phenome of a community-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii. by Daniel N Farrugia, Liam D H Elbourne, Karl A Hassan, Bart A Eijkelkamp, Sasha G Tetu, Melissa H Brown, Bhumika S Shah, Anton Y Peleg, Bridget C Mabbutt, Ian T Paulsen

“…We report the complete 3.70 Mbp genome of A. baumannii D1279779, previously isolated from the bacteraemic infection of an Indigenous Australian; this strain represents the first community-acquired A. baumannii to be sequenced. …”
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Long term outcomes following hospital admission for sepsis using relative survival analysis: a prospective cohort study of 1,092 patients with 5 year follow up. by Joshua S Davis, Vincent He, Nicholas M Anstey, John R Condon

“…Independent predictors of mortality over the whole follow up period were male sex, Indigenous Australian ethnicity, older age, higher Charlson Comorbidity Index, and sepsis-related organ dysfunction at presentation. …”
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Oral health and social and emotional well-being in a birth cohort of Aboriginal Australian young adults by Cairney Sheree J, Gunthorpe Wendy, Paradies Yin C, Jamieson Lisa M, Sayers Susan M

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Social and emotional well-being is an important component of overall health. In the Indigenous Australian context, risk indicators of poor social and emotional well-being include social determinants such as poor education, employment, income and housing as well as substance use, racial discrimination and cultural knowledge. …”
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Porous borders: the amorphous nature of magical realist fiction in Asia and Australasia by Holgate, B

“…Each of the key authors – Indigenous Australian Alexis Wright, New Zealand Maoris Keri Hulme and Witi Ihimaera, Indian-born cosmopolitans Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie, and Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan – subjects the narrative mode to differing intellectual, socio-cultural and historical frameworks, and in the process reinvents magical realism to serve their own artistic purposes. …”

Fear of Cancer Recurrence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer by Tamara Butler, Ben Smith, Kirsten Pilatti, Bena Brown, Kate Anderson, Bronwyn Morris, Gail Garvey

“…This mixed-methods study aimed to (1) quantify FCR levels among Indigenous Australian (i.e., Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) breast cancer survivors and (2) qualitatively explore experiences of FCR and the coping strategies used. …”
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No evidence of increasing Haemophilus influenzae non-b infection in Australian Aboriginal children by Robert I. Menzies, Peter Markey, Rowena Boyd, Ann P. Koehler, Peter B. McIntyre

“…Evaluate incidence rates of invasive Hi (overall and by serotype) in Indigenous Australian children over time. Design. Descriptive study of Hi incidence rates by serotype, in the Northern Territory (NT) and South Australia (SA) from 2001 to 2011. …”
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