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This map is just one representation of many other map sources that are available for Aboriginal Australia. Using published resources available between 1988–1994, this map attempts to represent all the language, social or nation groups of the Indigenous people of Australia. It indicates only the general location of larger groupings of people which may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. Boundaries are not intended to be exact. This map is NOT SUITABLE FOR USE IN NATIVE TITLE AND OTHER LAND CLAIMS.
David R Horton, creator, © Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS and Auslig/Sinclair, Knight, Merz, 1996.

StoryTelling

The process of storytelling varies between cultures. In western cultures stories are told to convey a meaning, such as entertainment, a moral etc. In Aboriginal culture a story is to convey knowledge. While this may include a moral (particularly in the children's stories) they will also convey a lot of other information. So these stories are not about moral - who is right and who is wrong, but information on how to work across cultures, how to understand how others see the worlds, and the experience Aboriginal people have shared with their children, and your future clients.

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Health Care Rights	Health Statistics	Honouring our strengths - moving forward
Australian Charter of Health Care Rights	Indigenous health statistics that are relevant to the scenarios
Health Care Rights	Health Statistics	Honouring our strengths - moving forward
		Abstract: Persistent perceptions of deficit and conflict have characterised and constrained the history of relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians since contact. The success of their saturation is apparent in a continuing approach that presents the response to Aboriginal needs in terms of health and education 'gaps'; 'the Aboriginal problem', 'mainstreaming (making them more like us)' or 'interventions' (and all the lack of ability that such a word implies). Language in programs and the underlying approach to address very real health, economic and social need continues to carry (and replicate) an implicit assumption of deficit and a positioning of the locus of control away from Aboriginal people (i.e. service 'delivery' instead of service 'access'). This paper recognises that an erosive mindset of deficit perceptions of Aboriginality is also being widely adopted by Aboriginal people by ourselves and other Aboriginal people - that if un-discussed will continue to impact on the Aboriginal struggle. This paper will unpack an Aboriginal framework (Engoori) that can reconnect people and reignite authentic community engagement discussions.
Author: Indigenous Reference Group	Author: Indigenous Reference Group	Author: Indigenous Reference Group

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The stories used on this site were collected as part of the OLT project Creating cultural empathy and challenging attitudes through Indigenous narrative

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