A Masters research thesis looking into four social services that Hazara refugees in Adelaide may utilise.  The social services include: education, employment, health, and housing.  Social factors that act as barriers to these services are explained. The results indicate that this cohort of refugees from Afghanistan are making good use of the services available to them, however, services like Government employment agencies are often made inaccessible to refugee groups.  Plus the use of counselling services for trauma and torture are rarely taken up by this group who would have experienced a vast array of either trauma and/or trauma.

A small book for the potential student who would like to enroll at university, but due to a mental illness/concern, is hesitant.
The book describes the services that are on offer at university to help assist students with the transition to undergraduate life when health is disrupted.

Being a student in a higher educational setting does leave much learning on the student’s shoulders. In secondary school, for example, you followed what the teacher asked. Did the same problems and essays as everyone else without the need to think much about what it is that you are writing. In university, this all changes. Your work will need to be carefully thought out and structured, using various styles and using something called critical thinking. There is plenty of time for you to discover what critical thinking is, and a whole host of other strange but necessary terms can be found in other books. For now, make yourself comfortable and pour yourself a cup of coffee and relax. The next three years of your life will be busy enough, where knowledge, relationships and fun (don’t forget to have fun) will become your very existence.

It is without a doubt that one of the biggest questions and social concerns that has been raised within the last two decades of the 21st century is climate change. The next big question to face the Australian social landscape is housing, and the lack of suitable accommodation sources for the populace. The thesis within seeks to address the apparent dearth of literature, either academic or social, surrounding climate change and public housing in the Australian context. This thesis aims to address this discrepancy using a qualitative methodology that utilises in-depth interviews and thematic analysis. Recruitment began and interviews were held in the winter of 2022 with three women aged over 50 years from a small city block within the Adelaide central business district. All three women had at least five years’ experience of residing at their place of residence, with one having lived at her home for 17 years. All three participants were in receipt of Centrelink welfare payments. Furthermore, the three cottages in question were in different conditions of liveability than the next. The thesis looks at the question of the useability of public housing providers relying on old 19th century cottages to remain useable as public housing in a time of climate change. The findings suggest that for the women involved, climate change and their housing was not an issue that required any redress. All three participants were aware of climate change to various extent, with more concern directed around weather events happening on the other side of Australia, or the world than directly impacting their homes. The participants were far more concerned with the need for maintenance of their public housing to be maintained and pro-active, not reactive, or ‘band-aid’ solution. The thesis revealed that climate change was not central to the participants' lives. Moreover, the comfort, lifestyle and ongoing maintenance of the cottages were paramount in the respondents' minds.

Background Aboriginal Australians are reported to have higher presence of chronic respiratory diseases. However, comprehensive evidence surrounding this is sparse. Hence, a systematic review was undertaken to appraise the current state of knowledge on respiratory health in the adult Aboriginal Australians, in particular among the three most common respiratory disorders: asthma, bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods A systematic review of primary literature published between January 2012 and October 2022, using the databases PubMed and Scopus, was conducted. Studies were included if they reported adult Aboriginal Australian prevalence's or outcomes related to asthma, bronchiectasis or COPD, and excluded if adult data were not reported separately, if Aboriginal Australian data were not reported separately or if respiratory disorders were combined into a single group. Risk of bias was assessed by both Joanne Briggs Institute checklists and Hoys' bias assessment. Summary data pertaining to prevalence, lung function, symptoms, sputum cultures and mortality for each of asthma, bronchiectasis and COPD were extracted from the included studies. Results Thirty-seven studies were included, involving approximately 33 364 participants (71% female). Eighteen studies reported on asthma, 21 on bronchiectasis and 30 on COPD. The majority of studies (94%) involved patients from hospitals or respiratory clinics and were retrospective in nature. Across studies, the estimated prevalence of asthma was 15.4%, bronchiectasis was 9.4% and COPD was 13.7%, although there was significant geographical variation. Only a minority of studies reported on clinical manifestations (n=7) or symptoms (n=4), and studies reporting on lung function parameters (n=17) showed significant impairment, in particular among those with concurrent bronchiectasis and COPD. Airway exacerbation frequency and hospital admission rates including mortality are high. Discussion Although risk of bias globally was assessed as low, and study quality as high, there was limited diversity of studies with most reporting on referred populations, and the majority originating from two centres in the Northern Territory. The states with the greatest Aboriginal Australian population (Victoria and New South Wales) reported the lowest number of studies and patients. This limits the generalisability of results to the wider Aboriginal Australian population due to significant environmental, cultural and ⇒ Adult Aboriginal Australians are reported to have a higher prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases than non-Aboriginal Australians. ⇒ However, diagnoses are confounded by a high prevalence of smoking, respiratory comorbidities and significant geographical variation. ⇒ Despite emerging evidence in the literature to suggest the respiratory health burden is significantly higher among the adult Aboriginal Australians, to date, there is a sparsity of comprehensive evidencebased reviews on respiratory disease assessment in this population. ⇒ This comprehensive systematic review for the first time illustrates the current state of knowledge on respiratory health among adult Aboriginal Australians. ⇒ This review strengthens the notion that adult Aboriginal Australians suffer from an disproportionate burden of respiratory disorders giving rise to higher morbidity and mortality. ⇒ A wide array of diagnostic criteria are used in the research context to estimate the burden of respiratory disease, and more specific methods are needed to fully elaborate on disease prevalence and outcomes. ⇒ Further efforts are needed in order to implement preventative, diagnostic and management strategies specific to Aboriginal Australians and Indigenous people globally, with an ultimate goal to reduce the health disparity and to close the health gap secondary to respiratory disorders in this population.

The Inspire Peer Mentor Program (Inspire) operates of Flinders University in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, and has received funding from the Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA). The experience gained during the past three years has indicated that a mentoring program between the University and schools located in its local region, which includes key areas of low socio-economic status, can be a major form of community engagement for Higher Education. Inspire received a commendation in the recent Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) Report (2006) as a strategy for community engagement. This article is written in two sections. The first will use the experience gained from Inspire to discuss the Higher Education sector's involvement in school-based mentoring programs as a strategy for community engagement. Catherine Koerner's analysis of the literature on mentoring, finds that mentoring programs can be an effective intervention with communities to increase school retention rates and engagement with formal learning if they are adequately resourced. She argues that the implication of this finding for the tertiary sector is that mentoring programs can be a strategic form of community engagement. In the second section, John Harris provides a case study of the adoption of the school-based mentoring model by the Teaching Experience Office of the School of Education at Flinders University as one example of how mentoring is being embedded within faculty programs. Anecdotal evidence suggests that those preservice teachers who had participated, as Inspire mentors were better prepared for their teaching practicums. As a result, second year education students are placed on 20 days of school experience over two semesters to better prepare them for their teaching practicums in their third and fourth years of their Education Degree.

This paper considers the complexities of 'everyday understandings' of multiculturalism as a discourse to deal with racialised difference. The paper is based on one of the author's doctoral research i which analyses the complexities of how whiteness and race are socially produced and lived in regional Australia. Drawing on a set of qualitative interviews conducted in South Australia with 29 people who self-identity as 'white Australian' we consider the social and political history of a 'white Australia' continues to inform the terms of multiculturalism for these people. We argue that this reflects the ways that state multiculturalism manages diversity and obscures the language of race. As a consequence the white national identity remains raced without an everyday vocabulary to deal with it.

The national narratives that construct asylum seekers as illegal immigrants in Australia were protected and contested during the term of the former Howard Liberal government. This paper explores how white possession is reinforced in everyday speech about asylum seekers.

has worked as a youth and community worker in Central Queensland and South Australia including coordinator positions at several community organisations. She has taught in Australian Studies, Sociology and Aboriginal Studies and currently coordinates the Inspire Mentor Program through Flinders University. Current research and work interests include cultural identities, education, youth and mentoring.

Land has been central to debates about the relationship between Indigenous (First Nations) and non-Indigenous Australian identities since colonial violence founded the nation. How do white Australians understand Indigenous land rights? This paper draws on an empirical ethnographic study with rural people who self-identify as ‘white Australian’ to analyze the key discourses of land, identity and nation and the complexities of how whiteness and race is socially produced and lived in rural Australia. The study found that white Australian discourses of nation and identity limit most of the respondents' ability to construct their identity in relation to Indigenous sovereignty.