ORCID Profile
0000-0001-6069-9763
Current Organisation
University of South Australia
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 30-09-2022
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2008-021
Abstract: The laws of first peoples are connected to our traditional lands. The colonial project dispossesses us of land, but our laws are often still carried with us. These Aboriginal laws become like us, the native peoples, disconnected from country. So how is it possible for first peoples and our laws to survive this disconnection? And what is it we survive as? We are engulfed, inside a state that maintains its claim to sovereignty over Aboriginal lands and lives. This essay will explore the continuing connections to country from a place inside the “sovereign” space of the state, a space that guarantees no power to determine law-full Aboriginal obligations to country. Is it that all we have is a claim to law and homelands, a claim that may or may not be recognized by the colonial state? How can we keep the vision of Aboriginal relationships to country alive in a space where the universal, the global, views this relationship as an antiquated concept?
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Date: 16-04-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 22-09-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-07-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 24-05-2012
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 09-2018
Abstract: Colonialism has challenged Aboriginal obligations and relationships to the natural world. This article describes the efforts of First Nations on the continent now known as Australia to maintain their authority and existences in the face of neoliberalism and colonialism, which the British initially inflicted and under which we still survive. The colonial policies of Australia denied our existence and at the same time attempted to demolish our languages and cultures, and to assimilate the consequences. This article asks the questions: what underpins state claims to the title to Aboriginal lands? Does Australia renounce terra nullius and the racist principles and beliefs which make up such a doctrine? And finally does Australia acknowledge and support all ‘Peoples’ as having an inherent right to self-determination, and as a component of such a right, that all ‘Peoples’ have a right to collectively care for their country and to benefit from a relationship to the land which sustains future generations of all Peoples? The possibility of a future for all life forms on earth lies in the responses states might deliver to these questions.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2002
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2014
DOI: 10.1177/117718011401000506
Abstract: Indigenous law, philosophy and knowledges are core to our Indigenous past and they still hold our present worlds together, promising a future for First Nations peoples even in the face of colonialism which has done much to marginalise First Nations. This paper discusses the marginal position held by Indigenous peoples, one which is reflected in international law and which deems us as objects of colonial states. This is our political position even while First Nations continue to hold and centre our lawful obligations to care for country. I also critically review the impact of colonisation on the First Nations of Australia and consider the need to transform that colonial history to enable a less peripheral and more centred place for First Nations peoples’ laws, philosophy and knowledges to re-emerge. For the Australian colonial project the mechanism of terra nullius provided the legitimacy which imperial Britain needed to “lawfully settle” our lands and dispossess First Nations from our way of being in relation to the earth in the place now called Australia. Here I consider both the impact of colonisation on—and the challenge we face in re-centring—Aboriginal law, philosophy and knowledges.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-10-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-08-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2014
DOI: 10.1177/117718011401000502
Abstract: Indigenous knowledge in relation to bushfires has been largely overlooked in Australia. In this paper Uncle Lewis O'Brien, Kaurna elder and Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council (ARC) project Indigenous Knowledge: Water Sustainability and Wild Fire Mitigation, is “yarning” or in conversation with Irene Watson. The ARC project is working towards positioning an Indigenous philosophical standpoint that will bring a greater focus to Indigenous understandings of our natural world and the relationship between humans and the natural world, particularly in an era of climate change. In this conversation Uncle Lewis O'Brien points to the limitations of Western understandings of environmental management—and in particular the prevention of bushfires—from an Indigenous knowledges standpoint. It is a conversation about the philosophical positions Indigenous peoples have also deployed in our struggle to outlive colonialism, while also remaining open to sharing Indigenous knowledges that have been shared amongst First Nations for thousands of years.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.NUT.2018.02.017
Abstract: Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have assessed the effects of nut consumption on inflammatory markers. However, the results have been inconsistent. The aim of this meta-analysis of RCTs was to quantitatively evaluate the effects of nut consumption on selected inflammatory markers. PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library database, and Google Scholar were searched for published RCTs that reported the effects of nuts on inflammatory markers as primary or secondary outcomes in an adult population (aged ≥18 y). Summary estimates of weighted mean differences (WMDs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using random-effects meta-analysis. Twenty-three RCTs met the inclusion criteria. Overall, nut consumption significantly reduced the levels of intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 (WMD, -0.17 95% CI, -0.32 to -0.03 P = 0.01), but had no significant effect on other inflammatory markers. In the subgroup analyses by nut types, mixed nuts had a significant effect on ICAM-1 reduction. The significant effect of nuts on ICAM-1 reduction was only observed in parallel, but not crossover RCTs. Additionally, nut consumption significantly reduced ICAM-1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 levels in long-term (≥12 wk), but not short-term (<12 wk) RCTs. No significant heterogeneity or publication bias was observed in the studies included. Nut consumption significantly reduced ICAM-1 levels, but had no effect on other inflammatory markers. More studies are needed to assess the effects of nuts on inflammation.
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 2015
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity