AIATSIS Seminars

Special Seminar, 14 May 2013

There will be a special seminar held in The Mabo Room, AIATSIS, Lawson Crescent, Canberra ACT 2601

At 12:30pm,Tuesday 14 May 2013

 

Secure tenure for home ownership and economic development on land subject to native title

Ed Wensing
PhD Candidate, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, ANU;
Visiting Lecturer, University of Canberra; Visiting Lecturer, James Cook University;
Associate, SGS Economics and Planning, Canberra

Jonathan Taylor
Associate, KPMG, Perth

In what is a complex technical–legal environment, sometimes without precedence, the full range of housing tenure possibilities open to native title holders are often not fully explored. At the heart of the national debate there continues to be a disjuncture between the relative merits of exercising individual over collective property rights.

This paper explores approaches to enabling home ownership and economic development possibilities to be realised on Aboriginal lands, with particular reference to Aboriginal Lands Trust reserve lands in Western Australia which are also subject to native title rights and interests.

Specifically, the paper assesses the different land tenures available in Western Australia for their suitability for enabling home ownership and economic development against a number of principles for Indigenous land tenure reform and discusses three possible options for achieving secure tenure outcomes for Aboriginal people on Aboriginal land while also retaining the communal elements of property ownership and decision making that are valued by Aboriginal people. We also outline the next stage of our research in this field.

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AIATSIS seminar series, semester 1, 2013

The contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives to Australia’s healthcare system

In its first seminar series for 2013 AIATSIS is proud to showcase Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwifery workforce.

The series will highlight the significant work currently being undertaken across Australia by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives, together with their non-Indigenous counterparts. Presenters in the series come from a range of backgrounds—academia, policy, workforce development and community based program delivery.

The series will begin with history and the development of Indigenous nurse training schemes in Queensland during the 1940s and then discuss more recent developments in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nursing and midwifery workforce, including barriers and enablers for students in undergraduate nursing studies.

In the second half of the series we will be privileged to hear from eminent nurses about their personal experiences in nursing and midwifery and about the important contribution to Australia’s healthcare system that they and their colleagues have made.

SERIES PROGRAM

Next seminar: 12.30 pm, Monday, 13 May 2013, Mabo Room
Finding May Yarrowick—was she the first?

Dr Odette Best
Senior Lecturer, Oodgeroo Unit, Queensland University of Technology

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Kath Howey
Researcher

There has been little international research into the history of Indigenous peoples entering nursing; yet while New Zealand, Canada and the United States can all identify their first Indigenous registered nurse, Australia cannot. This seminar will present the story of May Yarrowick, who undertook her training for a general nursing certificate in 1902. May is possibly the first Aboriginal nurse to have trained and been registered in Australia.


In their research, Odette Best and Kath Howey used notes from Crown Street Hospital, personnel files, national and state archives and district newspapers to piece together May Yarrowick’s story. What became obvious through the research were the consistent barriers, because of race and ethnicity, faced by Aboriginal Australians in the pursuit of Western nursing qualifications. Discovering May Yarrowick and telling her story is an essential step in bringing Aboriginal nurses’ stories out of historical oblivion.

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AIATSIS
Lawson Crescent, Acton ACT 2601 (Map of our location)
Seminars are free and open to the public. Free parking is available.

If you are unable to attend the seminars in person, you can access audiovisual recordings, which are made available shortly afterwards.

Webcasts of the seminars have resumed and can be accessed through this link - View webcasts.

Seminars are free and open to the public. Free parking is available.