SSPR News 2006
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28 November: Kids Grow in Confidence (NT News)
Confidence can help children face their fears, be that in the classroom, the playground or outside school. This week Classmate spoke to CDU expert Bonnie Moss about how children can boost their self-esteem. Read more >>
25 November: Research says keep Pokies cap (NT News)
The number of pokies in Territory pubs and clubs should continue to be capped, a new SSPR study recommends. Read more >>
Gambling Study Recommends Caps on Pokies be Retained (SSPR News)
Led by Dr Martin Young, a team of researchers at SSPR have just released a report on the prevalence of gambling in the NT, and have found that the total amount lost by local players on poker machines has increased from $45 million in 1996-7 to $114 million in 2004-5. Read more >>
30 October: Tom Wilson on Darwin as the laid-back frontier (NT News)
We breed more, love nothing better than an iced coffee for breakfast and a beer for lunch, and are younger than the residents of any other capital city. Read more >>
29 September: Robinson's commentary on Indigenous policy-making attracts crowds (CDU News)
More than 100 people turned out to hear lecturer Gary Robinson address issues in Indigenous policy-making in the first of Charles Darwin University’s Tuesday night lecture series this month. Read more >>
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21 September: Student literacy skills accelerated
A number of Riverland primary schools have adopted a nationally recognised program that helps to fast-track children's reading, writing and spelling skills. Read more >>
20 September: School literacy skills program expanded
A nationally recognised program that helps to fast-track children's reading, writing and spelling skills has been expanded as part of the State Government's focus on literacy in schools. Read more >>
15 September: Students on fast track to literacy
A new approach to fast-track children's reading, writing and spelling skills is improving literacy rates throughout the state's schools. Read more >>
25 August: Indigenous music education program
The Indigenous music education program was showcased again this year at the Garma Festival, reports the Territory News. Read more >>
24 August: Clarity on country
The education experts at Garma are scathing about the proposals to abandon the classroom teaching of first languages in remote communities, writes Graham Ring of the National Indigenous Times. Read more >>
16 August: Mines keen to attract locals
Mining companies in the north are collaborating with CDU in the hope of stepping up the recruitment of Aborigines. Read more >>
13 August: Speaking out at Garma
Mirrnatja traditional owner, Yiniya Guyula explains why it's vital for Aboriginal children to be educated in their homelands. Read more >>
11 August: Academics woo Garma crowd
Vice-Chancellor Helen Garnett reckons Charles Darwin University has a mandate to operate without walls. Read more >>
11 August: Cultural celebration garners class acts
After five days of serious talk and equally serious celebration, the eighth Garma Festival of Traditional Culture finished yesterday. Read more >>
7 July: On TRACK for better river and coastal management in tropical Australia
CDU researchers will play a leading role in a major new multi-million dollar research initiative focusing on Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRACK). Read more >>
6 July: No child left behind in the NT?
Associate Professor Tess Lea considers the introduction of an evidence-based education policy similar to the US model in a new report prepared for the Winston Churchill foundation. Read more >>
21 June: Dr Jiaping Wu’s attention shifts from Shanghai to the Northern Territory
Dr Jiaping Wu, the new research fellow in Economic Geography at the School for Social and Policy Research, has recently shown that the urban development of Shanghai in the post-1978 period has been chiefly driven by huge increases in the amount of foreign direct investment flowing into the city. Read more >>
14 June: 'Indigenous Education and Training' takes shape
The key educational forum of the annual Garma Festival this year will focus on 'Indigenous Education and Training' and is taking great shape, with a pre-eminent group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous government, philanthropic academic and corporate speakers having accepted invitations to participate. Read more >>
8 May: Dr Kaye Lowe uses 'Read on the Web' to flatten the world of literacy
Referring to the title of Thomas Friedman’s recent book 'The World is Flat', Dr Lowe argues that the development of the on-line literacy program can be interpreted as part of a wider phenomenon whereby information technology is allowing the social benefits of global capitalism to be distributed to a larger proportion of the world’s population. Read more >>
8 May: Dr John Condon paints a brighter picture of Indigenous health in the NT
Dr Condon and his colleagues from the People, Place and Economy theme area at SSPR have recently collected and analysed data on Indigenous mortality rates that are valid up to the present day. Read more >>
19 April: Dr Gary Robinson releases final report on early intervention program on the Tiwi Islands
Dr Gary Robinson, co-director of the School for Social and Policy Research at CDU, has just completed the final evaluation report of an early intervention program conducted on the Tiwi islands. Read more >>
3 April: The Ian Potter Foundation backs Ibtisam Abu-Duhou to research education economics
As the only academic in Australia with a research position in the specialist field of 'Education Economics', Associate Professor Ibtisam Abu-Duhou is perfectly qualified to supply the critical need for an economic analysis of educational outcomes in the Northern Territory. Read more >>
30 March: Two or three things that Chris Haynes knows about Kakadu
Chris Haynes is not your typical PhD student. In contrast to the majority of post-graduates – who decide to write a dissertation, and only then formulate a topic after the fact – Chris chose to write about the joint-management of Kakadu National Park as a result of his experience as park manager between 2002 and 2004. Read more >>
23 March: Garma Key Forum tackles training and education
Indigenous education and training will be the theme of the national three-day Key Educational Forum at the 2006 Garma Festival, Australia's major Indigenous cultural exchange event, in August. Read more >>
10 March: Let's Start - positive learning for young kids and parents
Territory parents have a great new tool to help their four to six year old children negotiate their way through preschool and into primary school, thanks to an innovative program starting up across Territory schools. Read more >>
3 March: Bonita Moss and the team kick-start the 'Let’s Start' program in Darwin and the Tiwi Islands
Bonita Moss has recently joined the School for Social and Policy Research to manage the 'Let’s Start' program, an initiative designed to help parents support children as they negotiate their way through preschool into primary school. Let’s Start is collaboratively funded by the Commonwealth 'Invest to Grow' Program and the Northern Territory Government. Let’s Start is adapted from a program originated in Victoria and since extended to all states. Read more >>
3 March: A new paradigm in Indigenous studies? Tess Lea launches Moving Anthropology at Cullen Bay Wharf
The act of launching a book is like naming a ship—it’s all about doing things with words. Those present at Absolutely Books in Cullen Bay for the launch of Moving Anthropology would have been aware that words were being put into action, as Associate Professor Tess Lea, the Co-Director of the School for Social and Policy Research, spoke of a 'paradigm change' in Indigenous studies. Read more >>
3 March: Dr Martin Young to visit ANU to prepare final report of study into the prevalence of gambling in the NT
Over the course of the next month, Dr Martin Young, a human geographer at the School for Social and Policy Research, will be a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, where he will be preparing the final report for a study commissioned by the Community Benefit Fund of the NT Treasury into the prevalence of gambling in the Northern Territory. Read more >>
1 March: Indigenous literacy - Griffith Review
Wendy Cowey from the National Accelerated Literacy Program discusses the current state of indigenous literacy with Jeff McMullen and Dr Chris Sarah on Radio National's 'Australia Talks Back' program. Read more >>
