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It is with great sadness that we farewell Dr Steve Blake, our General Manager, Research Quality and Education, who passed away earlier this month after a brief illness. Many of our friends and supporters will remember Steve for his genuine enthusiasm for our work and passion for remote Australia and for the people who live there.
Steve came to Ninti One just over three years ago, and although the CRC-REP research program had already been established and individual projects were underway, it did not take long for Steve’s contribution to be recognised by our university partners, staff and Board.
Prior to Ninti One, Steve was the Founding CEO of the Western Australian Research Facility, the WA Marine Science Institution. Prior to this role, Steve was the Executive Director of ANZLI, the Spatial Information Council for Australia & New Zealand, working across the state, territory, Australian and New Zealand governments. Steve was a recipient of an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, ANU.
Our thoughts are with his family during this difficult time.
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 A new Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) portal has been launched as part of the Australian Government’s TIS programme. Produced by Edith Cowan University’s Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet, the portal is one of a suite of activities run by the National Best Practice Unit for TIS (NBPU TIS), of which the Health InfoNet is a partner.
The online portal is the ‘go to’ place for TIS workers to access the TIS Resource and Information Centre (TISRIC). Developed by NBPU TIS, the TISRIC contains up-to-date information on current best practice for reducing smoking rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, along with a comprehensive collection of videos and programs and workforce information such as conferences, jobs, courses and other events. The social media platforms provide an opportunity for the TIS member workers to network and support each other.
The new portal is located on the Australian Indigenous Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre (AIAODKC) web resource. While it has been designed specifically for TIS workers, the main resources are free to access and can be used by anyone interested in or working in the area of smoking reduction ( www.tacklingsmoking.org.au).
The NBPU TIS consortium is led by Ninti One and includes the Health Research Institute at the University of Canberra and the Smoking Research Institute at the University of Sydney. The main role of the consortium is to provide advice and support to the TIS workers who are implementing effective strategies and programs to reduce the levels of smoking in their communities.
Professor Tom Calma AO, National Coordinator Tackling Indigenous Smoking, said, ‘The TIS portal will be a valuable resource for the TIS grant recipients, to enable them to access relevant and current information on smoking cessation and strategies and guides to help encourage people to not take up smoking. It’s all about sharing and learning’.
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 We are continuing to engage young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and those who work with them in the No Smokes project. Using social media and educational resources developed by the Menzies School of Health Research, the No Smokes project provides information on the impact of tobacco, strategies for quitting and the long-term benefits of saying yes to No Smokes. Around 5000 people have ‘liked’ the No Smokes Facebook page, with over 75% of these under the age of 30. No Smokes is also conducting training in the use of flipcharts, an aid in motivational interviewing and brief intervention, two strategies that can be used to start a conversation with smokers about their quitting journey. During September, training sessions of 1 day in how to use the flipcharts will be happening in Darwin, Lakes Entrance, Mt Gambier, Queanbeyan, Melbourne, Alice Springs, Sydney, Cairns, Adelaide and Perth. If you'd like further information about the training, please email Andy.bubb@nintione.com.au.
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Our Deputy Chair, Glenise Coulthard, attended the World Indigenous Business Forum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, last week. The World Indigenous Business Forum is a platform that engages Indigenous people in global economic discussions reflected in this year’s theme: Connect, Share, Inspire. An impressive line-up of speakers from across the world gathered to share their experiences and visions for successful Indigenous enterprise, including a representative from our research partner, Curtin University, Dr Ernesto Sirolli. Of particular interest was the new Young Indigenous Innovators Panel.
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It has been a busy past few months for the Ninti One Foundation.
As Ninti One is a newcomer to the philanthropy space, we have prioritised introducing Ninti One’s work in remote Australia to a range of executives from both business and philanthropy Managing Director Rod Reeve recently attended the Giving Institute’s annual conference in San Francisco, which has given us a good understanding of the potential of the sector.
Ninti One staff are looking forward to learning more about how best to interact with philanthropists at the Philanthropy Australia conference in Sydney in September. This will be a significant opportunity for us to gain greater exposure with key sector people.
For further information, please visit http://nintione.com.au/ninti-one-foundation.
If you would like to explore a potential partnership with the Ninti One Foundation, please contact foundation@nintione.com.au. We always welcome new ideas. |
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The Precision Pastoral Management Tools (PPMT) team headed to Tambo for the Tarrina Field Day, held on 24 August. Presentations navigated through the exciting technology that the research team have been hard at work on. There are a number of challenges that still exist, and we expect that the technology we have been developing will assist beef producers to become more profitable and resilient.
Unfortunately, the visit to the paddock to see the Precision Pastoral Management System (PPMS) in action was washed out, with 50 mm rain falling in 24 hours! Despite the rain, we had a really interested and engaged audience. Local producers were indeed smiling!
The PPMT is a research project run by CRC-REP that aims to improve the productivity and profitability of beef production by using advanced technologies to remotely monitor and analyse the performance of individual cattle and pastures without labour input.
Thanks to Will and Fia Hobbs for hosting the day and for partnering with us as an active research site for the PPMS technology for the past three years.
The PPMT team are now heading off to Newcastle Waters, Northern Territory, for our third field day, on 31 August. You can find the full program here.
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To learn more about PPMS, watch our video
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 We are excited to announce the publication of our Red Dirt Education e-book, which can be downloaded freely here (Warning 538MB) . The e-book is based on our lecture series and provides links to a host of resources that will have use for teachers and principals, researchers, preservice teachers, policy advisors—and specifically the many ‘red dirt educators’ who work hard to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people to achieve all they can from their learning.
The 10 key findings to emerge from the project are:
- The premise of ‘remote Indigenous disadvantage’ is not supported by remote community members.
- Contrary to popular belief, there are plenty of jobs for school graduates to take up in remote communities, but the pathway from school to work is unclear.
- Quick fix solutions (such as attendance strategies) do not work in remote community contexts, which are highly complex – remote education needs to be treated as a complex system.
- Education should support local aspirations for culture, land, language and identity.
- ‘Success’ is defined by parent and community involvement in school
- Teacher quality is not the main issue for remote schools, but ensuring teachers have the right qualities is fundamentally important.
- Schools with higher proportions of non-teaching staff get better results.
- Too little is known about the impact of boarding schools – policies developed in an evidence-base vacuum are potentially harmful for students and communities
- Schools with more resources tend to get better outcomes.
- Community engagement is important, but engagement must have benefit for parents and students in order to be effective.
The Remote Education Systems (RES) project is now completed. Over the last five years, the project sought to find out how remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can get the best benefit from the teaching and learning happening in and out of schools. John Guenther has accepted a position with Batchelor Institute, where the work of RES will continue under the direction of our research partner. |
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Principal Research Leader of the Enduring Community Value from Mining (ECVM) Project, Dr Boyd Blackwell, visited Washington DC in June to attend the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) 2016 conference. He presented a preliminary comparison between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experiences with mining in remote Australia and the Sami people and their experiences in sparsely populated areas of Sweden. Fellow presenters in his session presented on Indigenous issues from across the globe.
Dr Blackwell also chaired a concurrent session as well as a roundtable discussion on ‘Down Under’ issues affecting Australia with mining, climate change and regional and remote sustainability featuring prominently.
All three activities enabled Dr Blackwell to build an international network of contacts with interests in future special sessions on both Indigenous wellbeing and ECVM being planned for:
- the Australia and New Zealand Ecological Economics Society conference in Adelaide, in January 2017
- the ISEE conference in Mexico City in 2018.
Dr Blackwell is planning to visit remote parts of Sweden later this year, meeting with Sami people who have been affected by mining. In this work, Dr Blackwell will join Professor Dean Carson in an international comparative study, with Dr Blackwell drawing on the case study analysis done through ECVM in Australia.
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Mr Jim McFarlane from the University of New England Business School in Armidale has been offered a CRC-REP scholarship to join the ECVM team and complete his PhD on regional economic development. in the central west region of New South Wales. Mr McFarlane has also been offered the opportunity to undertake an intensive course in ecological economics at Oxford University, staying at Adam Smith’s old college. As part of his visit, Mr McFarlane is also looking forward to presenting on his input–output methodology as well as a paper (co-authored with Principal Research Leader ECVM, Dr Boyd Blackwell) on the precipitous problem of technological unemployment. |
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The CRC-REP has a strong commitment to communicating our findings back to people living in remote communities who participated in the original research.
Mike Dockery, Principal Research Leader for our Population Mobility and Labour Markets project, has had an abstract accepted for the Lowitja Institute’s upcoming International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference. The paper will be presented as a poster session and will report on Mike’s work about how housing instability, cultural identity and remoteness influence developmental outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children using data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, also known as ‘Footprints in Time’. The conference will be held in Melbourne in early November, with key themes being identity, knowledge and strength.
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Remote diary |
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NBPU TIS Jurisdictional Workshop – Darwin
August 30, 2016
Newcastle Waters Field Day
August 31, 2016
Dalgonally Station Field Day
September 7, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdictional workshop – Sydney
September 21, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdictional Workshop – Canberra
September 23, 2016
18th National Remote Indigenous Media Festival
September 26-30, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdictional Workshop – Perth
September 28, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdiction Workshop – Adelaide
October 19, 2016
SEGRA Conference 2016
October 25, 2016 - October 28, 2016
The Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference
November 8 - 10, 2016
Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference (IBECC)
December 1 - 2, 2016
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Publications |
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Journal papers
McFarlane J, Grant B, Blackwell B and Mounter S. 2016. Combining amenity with experience: exploring the hidden capital of a winescape experience. Tourism Economics..
Book chapters
Lee LS. 2016. Cultivation of Bush Tomato (Solanum centrale): Desert Raisin. In Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries. Ed. Sultanbawa Y and Sultanbawa F. pp. 19-32. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
Conference presentations, seminars, workshops
Blackwell B. 2016. ECVM tracking and mapping mine expenditure. CSIRO, CRC-REP & South Australian Department of State Development Social Acceptance and Mineral Development Workshop. 26 May. Flinders University, Adelaide. Slideshare here.
Blackwell B. 2016. Mining wilderness, food and traditional peoples: How to transcend and transform the imbedded conflicts presented through multiple and sequential use of remote resources. Presentation to the Wilderness workshop: 20 years on and 20 years ahead, Environmental Humanities Group, Oorala Aboriginal Centre. 13 May. University of New England, Armidale.
Blackwell B. 2016. The role of Indigenous cultures in securing sustainable economic development of mineral and energy resources: Australia and Sweden. 2016 International Society for Ecological Economics Conference, Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water and Justice. 26-29 June. University of District of Columbia, Washington DC. Slideshare here.
Blackwell B. 2016. A solution to the intractable problems of coal mining in the Liverpool Plains. Presentation to the New England Energy Futures Forum, Lazenby Hall, UNE. 21 June. Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences. Armidale, NSW. Slideshare here.
Blackwell B and Hatfield-Dodds S. 2016. Ecological economics perspectives from Australia. Roundtable workshop. 2016 International Society for Ecological Economics Conference, Transforming the Economy: Sustaining Food, Water and Justice. 28 June. Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences. University of District of Columbia, Washington DC.
Fordham A. 2016. CSR mining and oil and gas: Indigenous and community perspectives. CSIRO, CRC-REP & South Australian Department of State Development Social Acceptance and Mineral Development Workshop. 26 May. Flinders University, Adelaide. Slideshare here.
Lovell J. 2015. Now you see it, now you don't: Looking for the remote advantage in the sustainable development of Northern Australia. Indigenous Economic Development Research Workforce Development in Remote Enterprises: 7th Indigenous Economic Development Forum. 18–20 October. Alice Springs. Slideshare here.
Reports and working papers
Guenther J. 2016. Red dirt education: a compilation of learnings from the Remote Education Systems project. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. PDF here. (Warning 538MB)
McRae-Williams E. 2016. Enterprising Pathways: Workshop report. CRC-REP Working Paper CW027. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. PDF here.
Submissions
Ninti One Limited. 2016. Submission to the Telecommunications Universal Service Obligation inquiry. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. PDF here.
Project updates and summaries, policy briefs
Acker T. 2016. Project update 07: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies August 2016. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs..
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