OnCountry4Health Program: Timetable 2017
Oncountry Learning: Indigenous Studies Video
Sunday 19 March –Wednesday 22 March 2017
1. Briefing Session: Tuesday, 14th March, 5-30-7.00 pm. Venue: PAR-Alan Gilbert-121 (Theatre 3)
In preparation for the briefing students are required to read the 'Cultural
Protocols' and the ‘Briefing Notes’
* Both are essential readings for program.
2. Sunday 19th March 2017: Travel Details
Meet 7.30am for 8.00am Departure from School of Population and Health, 207
Bouverie Street Carlton, University of Melbourne.
Travel from Melbourne to Moama River Resort, Moama via Shepparton.
Distance=268 Ks: 3.5 hours drive with stop in Shepparton/ Heathcote (TBC) to pick up students at the Rural Clinical School of Health. Pick up time there 10am quick stop to organise accommodation while on BUS
Arrival Moama Lunchtime
Welcome to Country by Yorta Yorta
Introduction to Yorta Yorta History and Connections
Visit site of the Great Flood Story Line-30, 000 BP (before present).
BBQ Dinner (Food Group 1)
Screening of Film: Lousy Little Sixpence, 7-30pm
3. Monday 20th March: Field Based Education
3.1 All Day: 9am start: Overview of Yorta Yorta History and Connections
Visits to Sites in Barmah-Millewa Forest
Examine evidence of prior occupation
Establish a time of Yorta Yorta history culture-past and present Return to Camp for Dinner (Food Group 2)
Group discussion and Community Evening
4. Tuesday, 21 March:
9am Visit Cummeragunja Explore history of Cummeragunja and Maloga (1874-present
11am – 1pm Visit Viney Morgan Health Service (bring lunch for staff)
Explore history of Cummeragunja and Maloga (1874-present) continued
3pm Visit Rumbalara Aboriginal Cooperative and Health Service
4pm (approx.) Visit Rumbalara Health Service
Return to Camp for Dinner (Food Group 3)
Prepare your reflections for the Elders
Student Feedback session to Elders after Dinner
Inform the rest of the group of their experience and common themes of
Communication, stereotypes and grief and other issues relating to health raised by the experiences.
Reflections “Past to Present, Future now”
An understanding of Aboriginal health During this presentation students should see the evolution of their own professional and personal identity around the ethical themes of respect for autonomy and justice and the part they can play to reduce disparities
Wednesday, 22 March: Visit Aboriginal Organisation
4.1 Full Day: depart 8:30am
11am: Visit Chinaman's Gardens
12pm Rumbalara Netball Football Club, Shepparton
Organised catering at RNFC instead
1 – 3pm: Rumbalara Football and Netball Club
2-00pm: Student Presentations
Assess the extent to which Indigenous groups have achieved autonomy and self determination through local social education and health programs Depart: 3pm Bus will return to University of Melbourne approximately 6.30 pm Option of Screening the Sapphires on Return Trip Available
* Required Reading. Readings are correlated with Wordpress Site
ABC Radio National Program: Oncountry Learning, 2017
Atkinson, W.R. Yorta The Story of the Cadell Fault and the cutting of the more recent course at the site of the Old Maloga Mission.
*Atkinson, W.R. Ngariarty: Speaking Strong: The Schools of Human Experience, Chapter on Cummera Walk Off, in First Australian, ed Rachel Perkins & Marcia Langton, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton Victoria, 2008, pp.285-287.
* Atkinson, W.R. Yorta Yorta Survival, Chapter 3, PhD Thesis, Law and Legal Studies, LaTrobe University, 2000.
Atkinson, W.R. Not One Iota, The Yorta Yorta Struggle for Land Justice, PhD Thesis, Law and Legal Studies, LaTrobe University, 2000.
Briggs, P. Were Aborigines Too , The Age, 23 August, 2006.
* Cato, N. Mister Maloga, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1976. Chapter 4. The Path to Maloga, pp.30-37.
Dharnya Centre Story: Video produced by Oncountry Student.
*Introduction to Documents of William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines League (AAL) pp.1- 10. Gratton, A. Reflections on the Oncountry Learning Experience, 2011.
* Hawker, C. Why are Blackfellas so dam good at Footy? Research Essay from Oncountry Learning course, 2009.
Horner, J. Vote Ferguson for Aboriginal Freedom: January 1938: The Day of Mourning, Australian & New Zealand Book Company, Sydney, pp. 56-80.
* Jackomos, A & Fowell, D. Living Aboriginal History of Victoria: Stories in the Oral Tradition, Museum of Victoria, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1991, pp.178-193 (Extracts of Oral Knowledge)
* Morgan, R. ‘ Reminiscences of the Aboriginal Station Cummeragunga’ and its Aboriginal people ‘,, (A limited edition of 500 copies published in 1952 by a group of friends of the author). Stanner, W.E.H. The Dreaming, in W.H. Edwards, ed Traditional Aboriginal Society, Macmillan Australia, 1987 (Chapter 13.), 225-236. Wood, C. Institutional Racism & the Dharnya Centre, 2012.
Indigenous Health Issues:
Australian Indigenous Health Info net Australia’s Indigenous health crisis in-depth, Oxfam Report https://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/indigenous-australia/close-the-gap/australias- indigenous-health-crisis-in-depth/
Summary of Australian Indigenous Health, 2013 http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/health- facts/summary
Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Incorporated (VACCHO) http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/key-resources/organisations?oid=459
Indigenous Health and Rights based issues
UN declaration on rights of indigenous people http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf
It involves Engagement with Indigenous Nations to respect their autonomy and particularly involving Cultural Strengthening and Social and Emotional Wellbeing http://www.naccho.org.au/download/aboriginal- health/Engaging%20with%20Indigenous%20Australia%20- %20exploring%20the%20conditions%20for%20effective%20relationships%20with%20Aboriginal% 20and%20Torres%20Strait%20Islander%20communities.pdf
Summary of Australian Indigenous Health
*Oxfam Closing the Gap Report on Indigenous Health, 2017 http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/health-facts/summary
VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY CONTROLLED HEALTH ORGANISATION (VACCHO) http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/key-resources/organisations?oid=459
At the national Level NACCHO is the peak body www.naccho.org.au Overall strategy http://www.naccho.org.au/download/naccho_health_futures/NACCHO%20Healthy%20Futures% 2010%20point%20plan%202013-2030.pdf
Women’s health http://www.naccho.org.au/download/aboriginal- health/National_Aboriginal_and_Torres_Strait_Islander_Womens_Strategy_May_2010.pdf
Men’s health http://www.naccho.org.au/download/naccho_health_futures/A%20Blueprint%20for%20Aborigin al%20Male%20Healthy%20Futures%20.pdf
Children’s Health http://www.naccho.org.au/download/aboriginal- health/3.Child%20preventive%20health%20life%20cycle%20summary%20chart.pdf
Evidence Base for preventative approaches http://www.naccho.org.au/download/aboriginal- health/2.Evidence%20base%20to%20a%20preventive%20health%20assessment%20in%20Aborigi nal%20and%20Torres%20Strait%20Islander%20people.pdf
Value of sport –relevant to RUMBULARA FOOTBALL and NETBALL CLUB http://www.naccho.org.au/download/aboriginal-health/Sport%20- %20More%20than%20just%20a%20game.pdf