Maggie Brady
First Taste: History & Culture in Indigenous Alcohol Use
Thursday, 18 September 2008
The two speakers presenting this public lecture will challenge some of the common beliefs that surround Indigenous Australians and the history of grog, by discussing the findings of the newly released publication First Taste: How Indigenous Australians Learned About Grog by Dr Maggie Brady (published by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation). This publication will be released the morning before the lecture and is a series of six books.
Buying the hotel: Social value or social liability for Indigenous groups? Some preliminary thoughts
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
At the core of alcohol control policies in Australia-and indeed in any country with a system of licensing-lies a key conflict. This is the conflict between the interest of the state in reducing alcohol-related problems on the one hand, and its interest in enjoying the economic benefits produced by the alcohol beverage industry on the other. When an Indigenous corporation buys into premises licensed to sell alcohol, it is faced with a similar conflict and a moral hazard: good sales may mean more alcohol-related harms for which others largely bear the cost.
Performance indicators for Aboriginal Health Services
Discussion Paper 81 / 1995
Abstract:
Performance indicators, which are simply variables that help to measure change, have been highly contentious in the area of Aboriginal health. This discussion paper focuses on the introduction of performance indicators for Aboriginal Health Services by the former Department of Aboriginal Affairs and subsequent attempts by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to implement their collection.
Indigenous residential treatment programs for drug and alcohol problems: Current status and options for improvement
Discussion Paper 236 / 2002
Abstract:
Commonwealth-funded residential rehabilitation programs for Indigenous problem drinkers or drug users were established in the 1970s as community-controlled organisations that were separate from Aboriginal Medical Services and independent of State drug and alcohol units. Structural and political factors during their development and growth have meant that many such programs are now poorly networked with sources of professional advice and other types of therapeutic community.
Regulating social problems: The pokies, the Productivity Commission and an Aboriginal community
Discussion Paper 269 / 2004
Abstract:
Australia has 21 per cent of the world’s electronic gaming machines—more commonly known as poker machines. Deregulation of the industry has expanded the availability of gaming machines to an extent unprecedented in the western world. As a result there are estimated to be approximately 300,000 problem gamblers in Australia, an unknown number of whom are Indigenous Australians.
Dealing with alcohol in Alice Springs: an assessment of policy options and recommendations for action
Working Paper 3 / 1999
ISSN 1442 3871
ISBN 0 7315 4902 3
Abstract:
The excessive consumption of alcohol and associated behaviour is a potentially intractable issue with no easy policy solutions. Altering drinking behaviour will inevitably involve changing attitudes over the long term and indeed will need generational change. Such change must come from the individuals who make up the ‘demand’ side of the drinking equation.
Maggie Brady, Fellow CAEPR
Maggie Brady is an experienced social anthropologist and has undertaken long-term fieldwork on health and land issues in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. She researched the diet and lifestyle of Aboriginal people in the vicinity of the Maralinga atomic test sites in preparation for, and following, the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia (1985). She has worked primarily on alcohol misuse and other substance abuse such as petrol sniffing since the late 1970s.
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