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The impact of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on placental abruption risk: a systematic review and meta-analysisMothers that are underweight prior to or in early pregnancy are at a moderately increased risk of placental abruption
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Australia’s first Indigenous scientist appointed to CSIRO boardThe Kids Research Institute Australia and Australian National University Professor of Indigenous Genomics, Professor Alex Brown, has become the first Indigenous member of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Board.
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Relationships between Psychosocial Resilience and Physical Health Status of Western Australian Urban Aboriginal YouthThe aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which factors previously documented as buffering the impact of high-risk family environments on...
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The impact of racial discrimination on the health of Australian Indigenous children aged 5–10 years: analysis of national longitudinal dataDirect and persistent vicarious racial discrimination are detrimental to the physical and mental health of Indigenous children in Australia
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and child sexual abuse in institutional settingsThe Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse commissioned The Kids Research Institute Australia to collaborate on a report
The third Big Elders meeting/gathering was held on the 26th of February 2019 at Burswood on Swan.
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‘I have to jump like a kangaroo … I have to slither like a snake’. A qualitative evaluation of elder-led art workshops in the child protection sectorIndigenous peoples globally have incurred significant harm resulting from colonisation and the forced removal of children from their families, culture, communities and Country. Over the last two decades in Australia, there have been calls for significant reform and there has been a raft of policy changes in child protection services. However the problems are intractable, and the numbers of Indigenous children being removed from their families continues to rise.
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Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL): Australian research network in human health and environmental changeThe HEAL Network aims to strengthen the Australian health system and community resilience to climate change, extreme events, and environmental degradation.
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“We don’t want you to come in and make a decision for us”: Traversing cultural authority and responsive regulation in Australian child protection systemsThe Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort (Our Children Our Heart) project conducted extensive Elder and community consultation to develop principles and practice recommendations for child protection governance in Western Australia. We explore these principles and practice recommendations and highlight the need for culturally safe community consultation and governance with a focus on repairing damage incurred by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community from past child protection policies.
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A Research Translation, Implementation and Impact Strategy for the Australian Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Research NetworkHealthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) is the Australian national research network established to support improvements to health, the Australian health system, and the environment in response to the unfolding climate crisis. The HEAL Network comprises researchers, community members and organisations, policymakers, practitioners, service providers, and other stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and sectors.