Civilised study of the Top End

01 October 2008

THE discipline of anthropology, more by convention than definition, has fixed its gaze on the discernible features of the "primitive" world, from the Amazon to Arnhem Land.

But in her book Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia (UNSW Press, $49.95), Charles Darwin University anthropologist Tess Lea flips the lens around: her subject is the tribe of well-meaning helpers - the "helping whites" - who carry on the work of what has been described as a "failed state". Read more in The Australian>>

Catching kids who cannot read

08 September 2008

The 2007 student progress report for the multi-million dollar education intervention, the National Accelerated Literacy Program (NALP), has revealed new insights into the Northern Territory’s education system. 

With 5,167 participating students in 58 NT Government schools by the end of 2007, NALP is the Territory’s most ambitious education intervention ever, both in its scale and scope. Read more>>

CDU identifies secret weapon for economic success

4 September 2008

A secret weapon in the fight to establish Darwin as a creative tropical Mecca is being unveiled in a project that could help determine the city’s future. 
 
A radical Creative Tropical City project led by the School for Social and Policy Research aims to identify who is involved in creative industries in Darwin in a bid to harness their talent to boost the economy and transform the city.  Read more>>

Breaking the Canberra curtain

16 July 2008

Charles Darwin University (CDU) will make an enormous contribution to a national series which will debate the future directions of Australian Indigenous policy. 
 
A researcher with CDU’s School for Social and Policy Research and Tiwi child health expert, Dr Gary Robinson, said it was time for Canberra to stop and listen. Read more>>

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