Climate Change and Adaptation on Karajarri Country and ‘Pukarrikarra’ Places

I am a Karajarri woman and one of the Traditional Owners of Karajarri Country. I come from Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community which is on Karajarri Country, approximately 190 km south of the township of Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. I am a linguist, interpreter and researcher at the Nulungu Research Institute, located on the Broome campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia, on Yawuru Country. I am often required to bring together traditional knowledge and Western rationalist approaches to knowledge generation in my research endeavours. The aim of the project described in this paper was to explore people’s concerns around climate change on Karajarri Country. It reflects on my cultural background, knowledge, traditional language and beliefs concerning changes to Country caused by changing climate. It also includes the ways my people adapt to changes to Country. During the research, Karajarri People talked about the importance of culture and heritage, and the importance of protecting Karajarri ‘Pukarrikarra’ (dreaming) places from changes to the land and waters. The importance and connectedness of language to Country is highlighted, and the significance and value of Country is demonstrated through our spiritual understandings and cultural practices, especially around climate change on Karajarri Country.https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_research/1000/thumbnail.jp

A Decade of Community-Based Research on Karajarri Country

Anna Dwyer is a Karajarri woman and a prominent Nulungu researcher. She also plays an important role as Director of Karajarri Traditional Land Association and is Cultural Advisor for her community and Karajarri Country. Since starting at Nulungu in 2008, Anna has worked closely with her people in Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community and has undertaken considerable research on Karajarri Country. In this seminar, Anna will discuss her collaborative community-based Karajarri research activities. As part of this Talking Heads seminar, Anna will discuss a number of research projects that she has undertaken with her people, to assist in research outcomes that support Kimberley needs

‘Finding Country, Finding Home - How Elders are Experiencing Aged Care in the Kimberley’

The aged care system in the Kimberley faces a unique set of challenges, and contends with a very big responsibility; that is, caring for Aboriginal Elders at a stage in their lives when their communities and families can no longer care for them. The very strong connection that senior Aboriginal people maintain to both Country, and to their extended families, underpins their wellbeing. The challenge for the sector is how to maintain this sense of connectedness, via the built environment and/or via programs that diminish the potential sense of social isolation that residents might experience. In this presentation we will present preliminary insights into how Aboriginal Elders are experiencing Aged Care facilities in the Kimberley, both as a physical space that offers them care, but also as potential places where their sense of connection to Country and to kin can be maintained. This project has been funded by The University of Notre Dame Research Grant Scheme

SEC's acceptance of IFRS-based financial reporting: An examination based in institutional theory

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“Karajarri Healthy Country Study Tour Canada British Columbia”

In this Seminar Anna Dwyer and Joe Edgar will talk about their recent cultural exchange trip and study tour to Canada. The purpose of the exchange was to visit First Nation communities in British Columbia (Canada) to engage with, learn from, and share experiences in improved land, water and cultural management of our respective traditional homelands. The Karajarri Traditional Owners provided information on the activities of the Karajarri Rangers and the Karajarri indigenous Protected Area (IPA). Anna and Joe will share their experiences exchanging information on strengthening the social and human capital within Indigenous land management programs; Increasing youth and school integration; building effective community governance structures; leadership development, support and networking; maintaining and strengthening customary law; and sharing Karajarri culture, dance and song to establish new working relationships

Remote community energy insecurity – some preliminary observations on electricity disconnections, energy costs and the transition to renewables in the Kimberley

As Australia adopts a Carbon Neutral future, energy insecurity in remote Indigenous Australia remains a major impediment to equity and development. “Energy security” is the term used to describe reliability of electricity connection, and for the vast majority of Australians, energy security is not a challenge. This is not the case for many remote Indigenous households, including approx. 1200 in the Kimberley, who have a prepaid system for their power connection. Electricity disconnections are disproportionately high for households that have a prepay system, where consumers must pay in advance for their power. When their credit runs out, they are immediately disconnected. A recent study in Nature revealed households in Alice Springs town camps experienced disconnections at a ratio of 1 in 3 during times of ‘extreme heat’ – defined as over 35 degrees. For more on the Abstract and biographies please download the flier

The impact of groups and decision aid reliance on fraud risk assessment.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the brainstorming component of Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 99 influences decision aid use and reliance, and the effectiveness of fraud risk assessment. The research framework links the influences of the fraud assessment setting and decision aid reliance. The hypotheses are tested in an experiment with two manipulated factors: setting (group or individual) and decision aid (provided or not provided). The results of the study provide insight on how the brainstorming impacts fraud risk assessment, decision aid use and decision aid reliance. The results show that groups using a decision aid with fraud risk factors demonstrate superior decision quality and effectiveness even with lower decision aid reliance. The influence of the setting (group or individual) on the fraud evaluation and detection is highlighted. This paper will be informative for auditors and firms involved in designing an efficient and effective fraud risk assessment. This paper integrates the fraud risk assessment and decision aid literature to evaluate decision quality and effectiveness of group fraud risk assessment

Power usage in the Bidyadanga community and its relationship to community health and well-being. Project report.

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Living on the Anne Street Reserve

The ‘Living on the Reserve’ project is a social history research project which commenced in mid-2016 with Aboriginal people who experienced life on the Anne St Reserve of Broome in the late 60s, 70s and early 80s. The project aims to document, via personal accounts, stories, recollections, photographs and with some reference to archival material, what life was like for Aboriginal families living on the Anne St Reserve in Broome. The research team, Anna Dwyer and Kathryn Thorburn have as a priority been interviewing older people, generally born in the 1950s , who were adults living on the Anne St Reserve in Broome. The Anne St Reserve was established as a residential area for Aboriginal people, many of whom were camping along coastal areas around the town of Broome, through the 1950s and into the 1960s. Part of the intention of the Reserve’s twelve houses was to ‘prepare’ Aboriginal people for ‘transition’ into mainstream state housing. However, the way in which residents experienced life on the reserve was at odds with the stated policy objectives; instead their memories evoke a time of liberation, of connectedness with each other and of abundance, despite significant material poverty. This presentation will explore why this historical period was so positive for people, and suggest that it relates to the diminution of the state or its proxies in the Kimberley, cattle stations and missions , in people’s lives. They were free, for the first time in generations, of the constant and oppressive drive by non-Indigenous people to ‘develop’, ‘change’ or ‘transform’ them

Third-party effects of water trading and potential policy responses

A key feature of water policy reform in Australia has been the separation of water access entitlements from land titles and the establishment of markets for water. However, the separation of water entitlements from land failed to account for a number of characteristics that were implicit in the joint right. This has given rise to a number of third-party effects as water is traded in an incomplete market. This paper describes four third-party effects of water trade; reliability of supply, timeliness of delivery, storage and delivery charges, and water quality and examines policy responses to address these effects. The discussion draws on the concepts of exclusiveness and rivalry to determine the applicability of property rights and other solutions to the third-party effects of trade. It is likely that many of the third-party effects of trade discussed in this paper do not warrant policy intervention at the national or state level, but intervention at the local level may be warranted. The costs of addressing some third-party effects may outweigh the benefits. Where there are significant gains from trade, the existence of these third-party effects should not been seen as a reason to impede trade.property rights, water trading, third-party effects, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,