Topic library – social environment

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Australian Bureau of Statistics (1998) 1996 Census of Population and Housing: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia. (ABS catalogue no. 2034.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (1999) The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 1999. (ABS catalogue no. 4704.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2000) Housing and infrastructure in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Australia 1999. (ABS catalogue no. 4710.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2001) Australian Housing Survey: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander results. (ABS catalogue no. 4712.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2001) The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2001. (ABS catalogue no. 4704.0) Canberra: A joint program of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2002) Housing and infrastructure in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Australia 2001. (ABS catalogue no. 4710.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2002) Census of population and housing: selected social and housing characteristics Australia 2001. (ABS catalogue no. 2015.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2002) Population distribution, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2001. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2003) Population characteristics: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians 2001. (4713.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2003) The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2003. (ABS catalogue no. 4704.0) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2004) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, 2002. (ABS catalogue no. 4714.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2005) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, Australia: summary booklet. (ABS catalogue no. 4714.0.55.003) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics (2005) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey: expanded confidentialised unit record file, technical paper 2002 (addendum). (ABS catalogue no. 4720.0) Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005) The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2005. (ABS catalogue no. 4704.0) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics

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Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare(2005) Education and health. Health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2005. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics:17-26

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2000) Agreement on national Indigenous housing information. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare(2000) Aboriginal medical practitioners and health service employment. In: Welfare AIoHa, ed. Medical labour force 1998. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare:9

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2001) Australia's welfare 2001. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2003) Appendix A: Aboriginal Rental Housing Program data manual 2001-02. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2004) Australia's health 2004: the ninth biennial health report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (AIHW Cat. No. 8903.0) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2004) CommonwealthState Housing Agreement user guide for 2001-02 data: public housing and the Aboriginal rental housing program. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005) Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement national data reports 2003-04: state owned and managed Indigenous housing. (AIHW catalogue no. HOU 112) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005) Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement national data reports 2003-04: public rental housing. (AIHW catalogue no. HOU 114) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005) Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement national data reports 2003-04: crisis accomodation program. (AIHW catalogue no. HOU 123) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005) Indigenous housing indicators 2003–04. (AIHW catalogue no. HOU 127) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005) Indigenous housing needs 2005: a multi-measure needs model. (AIHW Cat no. HOU 129) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005) Australia's welfare 2005. (AIHW catalogue no. AUS 65) Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian National Audit Office (1999) National Aboriginal Health Strategy: delivery of housing and infrastructure to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. (The Auditor-General Audit Report No. 39 Performance Audit) Canberra: Australian National Audit Office

Australian National Audit Office (2004) National Aboriginal Health Strategy delivery of housing and infrastructure to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities follow-up audit: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services. (Audit report no. 44 2003-04) Canberra: Australian National Audit Office

Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council (2002) Dare to lead: indigenous education in Australian schools. Canberra: Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council

Bailie RS (2002) In reply: household infrastructure in Aboriginal communities and the implications for health improvement [letter]. Medical Journal of Australia;176(10):503

Baldry E, Green S (2002) Indigenous welfare in Australia. Journal of Societal and Social Policy;1(1):1-14

Beggs PJ, Siciliano F (2001) Spatial relationship between dwelling crowding and selected causes of morbidity in Sydney, Australia, 1994-97. Australian Geographer;32(3):377-401

Behrendt L (2003) Achieving social justice: Indigenous rights and Australia's future.Annandale, NSW: The Federation Press

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Beresford Q (2001) Homeswest versus Aborigines: housing discrimination in Western Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies;(2001-2002):40-46

Berry M, MacKenzie D, Briskman L, Ngwenya T (2001) Indigenous homelessness: a discussion paper on Indigenous homelessness in Victoria. Melbourne: RMITUniversity Research Team

Boamah S (2003) Towards sustainable housing provision in Queensland rural and remote Aboriginal communities. Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Booth A, Carroll N (2005) Overcrowding and Indigenous health in Australia. (CAEPR discussion paper no. 498) Canberra: The AustralianNationalUniversity

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BrownVA, Stephenson P (1997) Education and training for an Indigenous Australian environmental health workforce. Paper presented at the Public Health Association of Australia 29th Annual Conference: Rights to Health. 5-8 October, Melbourne

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Daly A, Henry R, SmithDE (2002) Welfare and the domestic economy of Indigenous families: policy implications from a longitudinal survey. (Discussion paper no. 239/2002) Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

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