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Associate Professor Tess Lea
Director of School
Second Floor, Building 39
Casuarina Campus
Ellengowan Drive
Darwin NT 0909
E-mail: sspr@cdu.edu.au


 

Report author Matt Stevens

Reported gambling problems in the Indigenous and total Australian population

30 June 2009

This study, commissioned by Gambling Research Australia, reported on gambling problems in the Indigenous and total Australian population. It investigated factors that correlate with gambling-related problems among the Indigenous population. It revealed significant variations between states and territories in the percentage of Indigenous people reporting gambling related problems for themselves or their family and social networks.  Download from the Gambling Research Australia website>>


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Surviving the desert track

13 May 2009

PhD researcher Greg Cartan is looking at four wheel drive bush track survival. But it’s survival of another kind — that of the businesses, not the users. More>>


Keeping Aboriginal knowledge from flying the coop

29 April 2009

Birds, and what they represent, feature significantly in Central Australian Aboriginal culture and mythology. But these cultural signs are at risk of being lost as Aboriginal society rapidly changes. More>>


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ABRACADABRA

Volunteer spirit helps online learning in the NT

19 February 2009

A group volunteers from around Australia are supporting Charles Darwin University (CDU) researchers to implement an online literacy program targeting struggling Indigenous students. ABRACADABRA, a web-based program that has improved the literacy skills of Canadian students, is being trialled by CDU’s School for Social and Policy Research in six Northern Territory schools. More>>

 


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