Alcohol and Power on Palm Island

Barber, James C.; Punt, Jeanine; Albers, Jules

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.1988.tb01274.x

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“…Miller and Sacnhez describe 6 common elements to a brief intervention, summarized by the acronym FRAMES; FEEDBACK of personal risk or impairment, emphasis on personal RESPONSIBILITY for change, clear ADVICE to change, a MENU of alternative change options, therapeutic EMPATHY as a counseling style, and enhancement of client SELE-EFPICACY or optimism [39]. Mutiple randomized trials have shown a significant reduction in alcohol consumption with the use of brief interventions in appropriately targeted non-Indigenous populations in a variety of health care settings, provided the patients are non- dependent drinkers [36,40,41]. …”

Section: Preventive Measuresmentioning

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High risk alcohol-related trauma among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Northern Territory

Jayaraj

Thomas

Thomson

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Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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High risk drinking is linked with high rates of physical harm. The reported incidence of alcohol - related trauma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory is the highest in the world. Facial fractures are common among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. They are often linked with misuse of alcohol in the Northern Territory and are frequently secondary to assault. This review focuses on alcohol-related trauma in the Territory and draws attention to an urgent need for preventative health approach to address this critical issue.

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Section: Preventive Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

High risk alcohol-related trauma among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Northern Territory

Jayaraj

Thomas

Thomson

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“…For example, a meta-analysis that appeared recently in no less a journal than the Psychological Bulletin (Bushman & Cooper, 1990) cited more than 30 carefully controlled studies showing that alcohol abuse leads to violence. In addition, there have been studies linking alcohol to violent crime (Barber, Punt & Albers, 1988;Indermaur, 1990) and field research showing that the level of domestic violence rises and falls reliably with the price and availability of alcohol (Farrell, 1985). Finally, after the agency declined to be involved, an Australian Commonwealth government task force brought down some eight volumes on how to tackle the link between alcohol and violence.…”

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Science and Social Work: Are They Compatible?

Barber

1996

Research on Social Work Practice

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This article was originally presented in 1995 as the keynote address of the National Conference of the Australian Association of Social Workers. The author analyzes some of the sources of resistance to accepting scientific methodology within social work, including political, philosophical, and quasi-religious ones. The strength of scientific methods, as opposed to other ways of knowing, includes their utility in proving that some "findings" are indeed false and their skeptical attitude toward new claims.

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“…Barber, Punt and Albers describe events at Palm Island, Queensland, in the early 1970s, when it was announced to members of the community that the Queensland Government had decided to establish a licensed club in the community, despite evidence of strong opposition at a public meeting. 23 Martin recounts events in another Queensland community where the non-Aboriginal town clerk convened a council meeting, not open to the public, which voted to establish a club. According to Martin, within 24 hours, a group of brewery executives were on the scene to develop the new market.…”

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Out of sight, out of mind? Licensed clubs in remote Aboriginal communities

d’Abbs

1998

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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recurring theme in responses to Aboriginal alcohol-related prob-A lems in towns and cities, especially in northern Australia, and particularly but not exclusively from non-Aboriginal voices, is the suggestion that Aboriginal communities in the bush be encouraged to establish their own licensed clubs. This, it is argued, would foster moderate drinking by Aboriginal people in controlled environments and, at the same time, discourage Aboriginal people from travelling from bush communities into towns in search of grog.For example, in November 1995, when police in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory (NT), reportedly took more than 400 Aboriginal drinkers into 'protective custody' for public drunkenness over a three-day period, Alice Springs mayor and former Assistant Police Commissioner, Andy McNeill, called publicly for the establishment of licensed clubs in bush communities. ' Within days of McNeill making his statement, the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly directed a parliamentary committee to inquire into public drunkenness in Alice Springs and report back with recommendations. In a report tabled in May 1996, the committee observed: Somewhat perversely, the very success of the restricted area provisions in helping many remote communities limit the impact of alcohol misuse within their boundaries has prompted politicians over the years to question whether, rather than solving alcohol problems, they merely relocate them from the bush to the towns.The NT Government has already commissioned three reviews of the provisions -in 1982, 1987 and 1993.'-'Each review identified shortcomings in the provisions but concluded that, on balance, the benefits outweighed the costs.The continuing currency of the strategy of promoting licensed clubs is, in part, a function of the discourse of which it is a product, and which it in turn helps sustain. This is a discourse in which Aboriginal alcoholrelated problems are portrayed in terms of the stereotype of the 'drunken blackfella', a weak individual who cannot hold his grog and who, for everybody's sake, including his own, is better off out in the bush where he 'belongs' and can be a 'true' Aborigine.As Langton has demonstrated, this stereotype is a historically grounded construction

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Alcohol and Power on Palm Island

Cited by 18 publications

References 2 publications

High risk alcohol-related trauma among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Northern Territory

High risk alcohol-related trauma among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Northern Territory

Science and Social Work: Are They Compatible?

Out of sight, out of mind? Licensed clubs in remote Aboriginal communities

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