Urban Indigenous Australians still isolated: study
8/10/08; http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/07/2384561.htm?section=justin
New research by the University of Tasmania has found more Indigenous Australians are living in cities and towns than remote areas, yet they remain isolated. The study found nearly one third of the country’s Indigenous population lives in major cities, while 75 per cent are based in regional or urban areas. It found Indigenous people were concentrated in disadvantaged areas and economically and socially separated from non-Indigenous communities. Researcher Rowland Atkinson says bridging that gap and increasing the visibility of Indigenous populations is a challenge for governments. “We found that the bulk of indigenous Australians live in cities and towns and I think that’s largely or possibly at odds with the kind of popular representation of Aboriginal locations which tend to be more focussed on remote areas and certainly we know that a lot of funding for example tends to be targetted at those areas,” Mr Atkinson said.
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Reconciliation