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Dr Julie Lahn, Post-Doctoral Fellow

BA Hons (Anthropology & Archaeology) James Cook University of North Queensland, 1993 PhD (Anthropology) James Cook University of North Queensland, 2004 E-mail: julie.lahn@anu.edu.au Phone: (02) 6125 4912 Research Interests Selected Publications Other Publications Unpublished Reports

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Julie Lahn joined CAEPR in June 2006 and is currently collaborating on two projects: a study of 'social capital and social exclusion in rural and urban areas' and, as a member of a large CAEPR team, investigating the 'socio-economic value of indigenous management of dugong and marine turtles' for the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance.

 

Research Interests

Julie is an anthropologist whose published work on Australian Indigenous issues addresses a number of core themes including: morality, relatedness, resource use, religion, repatriation, and native title and land rights. She has worked with Torres Strait Islanders since 1994, where she conducted her doctoral research (entitled, Past Visions, Present Lives: Sociality and locality in a Torres Strait community). She has been an anthropological consultant since 1998 and has prepared numerous reports documenting the native title interests of Torres Strait Islanders and more recently those of Aboriginal people in south west Cape York. Previous research has included the role of social research (including social indicators) within marine park management (for James Cook University and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) and gambling practices in the ACT (for ANU's Regulatory Institutions Network).

Selected Publications

Forthcoming. 'Native Title and the Torres Strait: Encompassment and recognition in the Central Islands', in Smith, B. and F. Morphy (eds), Effects of Native Title, Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research and ANU E Press, Australian National University.

2007. 'Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers: a social history of the Kow Swamp remains', in, Smith, L. (ed), Cultural Heritage: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, London: Routledge.

2006. 'Women's Gift-Fish and Sociality in the Torres Strait, Australia'. Oceania 76(3):297-309.

2004. "'Living in the light' and island dance: morality and temporality in Warraber Christianities", in Davis, R. (ed), Woven Histories, Dancing Lives: Torres Strait Islander identity, culture and history, pp.38-53, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.

Other Publications

2006 (with P. Delfabbro and P. Grabosky) 2006 'It's not what you know, but how you use it: statistical knowledge and adolescent problem gambling', Journal of Gambling Studies, 22(2):179-193.

2006 (with P. Delfabbro and P. Grabosky). 'Psychosocial correlates of problem gambling in Australian students', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40:587-595.

2006. 'The Torres Strait (Australia)', in UN Atlas of the Oceans.

2006 (with P. Delfabbro and P. Grabosky). 'Classroom or Cyberspace?: ethics and methods in an online adolescent gambling survey', eGambling 16.

2005. 'Gambling among correctional populations: results from an Australian survey', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 49(3):343-355.

2005 (with P. Delfabbro and P. Grabosky). 'Further evidence concerning the prevalence of adolescent gambling and problem gambling in Australia: a study of the ACT', International Gambling Studies 5(2):209-228.

2004. 'Gambling and community corrections', in G. Coman (ed), Proceedings of the 13th National Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies, pp.138-144, Alphington, Australia: National Association for Gambling Studies Inc.

1998. 'Native Title recognition of Customary Marine Tenure and the implications for the GBRMPA and future management of marine areas', Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 9:26-29.

1996. 'Dressing up the dead: Archaeology, the Kow Swamp remains and some heritage management problems', in Smith, L., & Clark, A. (eds), Issues in Management Archaeology, Tempus Volume 5, St Lucia, Queensland: Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland.

1996. 'Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers: A social history of the Kow Swamp remains', Ngulaig volume 15. Brisbane: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland.

Unpublished Reports

2006 (with K. Vella and J. Innes). Plan for a Social, Economic and Institutional Research and Monitoring Program for the Great Barrier Reef. Unpublished draft report to the Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (CRC Reef)/Marine and Tropical Science Research Facility (MTSRF).

2005 (with P. Winn). Kunjen people and the Red River—inland Staaten River Region of SW Cape York, Queensland. Draft Anthropological Report to the North Queensland Land Council.

2004 (with P. Delfabbro and P. Grabosky). Adolescent Gambling in the ACT. Report prepared for the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission. Canberra: Australian National University.

2004 (with Y. Musharbash). Anthropological Report Prepared in Relation to Native Title Application Claim: QG6060/98 Sassie. Report prepared for the Native Title Unit, Torres Strait Regional Authority.

2003 (with P. Grabosky). Gambling and Clients of ACT Corrections. Report prepared for the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission. Canberra: Australian National University.

2002. Inquiry in relation to Native Title in certain Torres Strait seas: Warraber and Poruma. Report 2. Report prepared for the Native Title Unit, Torres Strait Regional Authority.

2001. Inquiry in relation to Native Title in certain Torres Strait seas: Warraber and Poruma. Report 1. Report prepared for the Native Title Unit, Torres Strait Regional Authority.

2000a. Anthropological report in relation to Gebar Island. Report prepared for the Native Title Unit, Torres Strait Regional Authority for submission to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State Government of Queensland.

2000b. Anthropological report in relation to Aureed Island. Report prepared for the Native Title Unit, Torres Strait Regional Authority for submission to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State Government of Queensland.

2000c. Anthropological report in relation to Yarpar (Roberts) Island and Uttu (Dove) Island. Report prepared for the Native Title Unit, Torres Strait Regional Authority for submission to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State Government of Queensland.

2000d. Report in relation to Zuizin Island. Report prepared for the Native Title, Torres Strait Regional Authority.

1999. Connection Report Warraber QC 96/58 and Poruma QC 96/81. Report prepared for the Native Title Unit, Torres Strait Regional Authority for submission to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, State Government of Queensland.

1998. Heritage Assessment of the proposed O'Connell River and Lethebrook Offstream Storage Development Scheme. Report prepared for Birri Gubba Aboriginal Corporation for submission to Gutteridge, Haskins and Davies Pty Ltd.

1996. Customary Marine Tenure, Native Title and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Townsville: GBRMPA.