This BCEC Feature report highlights the individual wellbeing and community benefits of Indigenous Australians' participation in Australian Rules Football. After the Siren identifies the factors that can impact the likelihood of an Indigenous person playing the sport, with housing status and...

In the past decades the United Nations (UN) elaborately dealt with the issues of discrimination, besides adopting many resolutions, three major documents came to life: the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the 1992 Declaration on the Rights...

This article highlights the fundamental importance of implementing both national and regional measures to protect indigenous intellectual property rights. The development of such measures provides countries with an opportunity to protect their traditional knowledge. The measures will be...

Household overcrowding in Indigenous communities is a long standing and serious problem. The adverse effects of overcrowding and poor housing conditions include – poorer health and more emotional stress for occupants; greater likelihood of anti-social behaviour; increased wear and tear on...