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In recent years, there has been an apparent growth of the Indigenous
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In recent years, there has been an apparent growth of the Indigenous population of Australia driven, in part, by an increasing willingness on the part of many Australians to acknowledge/assert their Aboriginality (ABS, 2003). As at 30 June 2001, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) population of Australia was estimated to be 458,520, or 2.4 per cent of the total population. Persons identifying as 'Aboriginal origin' comprised about 90 per cent of this estimated resident Indigenous population; persons of 'Torres Strait Islander origins' comprised 6 per cent, and those with both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander origin comprised 4 percent (ABS & AIHW, 2003). This growth is occurring despite the fact that, by any social indicator, including education, employment, income, housing and contact with the justice system (Departmental of Aboriginal Affairs, 2004), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the most disadvantaged sub-population in Australia (O'Donoghue, 1992; National...
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