Encountering the ‘Other’: interpreting student experiences of a multi-sensory museum exhibition
Author/editor: Schorch, P, Walton, J, Priest, N & Paradies, Y
Year published: 2015
The Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, launched the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours exhibition in 2011. Aimed primarily at secondary school students, this long-term installation seeks to foster reflection on identity and belonging, as well as dialogue about racism, through an interactive,…
Estimating small-area Indigenous cultural participation from synthetic survey data
Author/editor: Vidyattama, Y, Tanton, R & Biddle, N
Year published: 2015
Lack of data on the spatial distribution of the social conditions of Australia's Indigenous peoples has created difficulties in the allocation of government and community programs. Small-area estimation methods can overcome this lack of data, but typically require access to a unit record file.…
Fostering intercultural understanding through secondary school experiences of cultural immersion
Author/editor: Walton, J, Paradies, Y, Priest, N et al.
Year published: 2015
In parallel with many nations’ education policies, national education policies in Australia seek to foster students’ intercultural understanding. Due to Australia’s location in the Asia-Pacific region, the Australian government has focused on students becoming “Asia literate” to support Australia’s…
How gendered is ambition? Educational and occupational plans of Indigenous youth in Australia
Author/editor: Sikora, J & Biddle, N
Year published: 2015
Highlights Indigenous girls are much more likely to plan university study than Indigenous boys. Indigenous youth whose fathers are professionals are more likely to plan university. Gender segregates career plans of Indigenous youth more than plans of other youth. Girls’ expected…
Indigenous Australia, white Australia, multicultural Australia: the demography of race and ethnicity in Australia
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Khoo, SE & Taylor, J
Year published: 2015
With an estimated population of 21,875,000 in June 2009 and a surface area of around 7.7 million km, Australia is a continental-scale country with a medium sized population (Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Population by age and sex, Australian states and territories, Jun 2009, cat. no. 3201.…
Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Al-Yama, F, Gourley, M, Gray, M, JR, Brady, B, Pham, L, Williams, E & Montaigne, M.
Year published: 2015
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of the major policy innovations of the early 21st century in Australia, representing a new way of delivering services to people with a disability and those who care for them. It has the potential to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands…
Indigenous Family Formation
Author/editor: Biddle, N & Johnstone, K
Year published: 2015
Using the latest 2011 census data, the introduction to this book provides a snapshot of contemporary Australian families – what do our families look like, and how have they come to be this way? We provide historical background to recent trends in family formation, and preview the contemporary…