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Publications
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health in collaboration with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research & the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 2006, Growing up in the Torres Strait region: a report from the Footprints in Time trials, Occasional Paper no. 17, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health in collaboration with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research & the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 2008, Stories on ‘growing up’ from Indigenous people in the ACT metro/Queanbeyan region, Occasional Paper no. 20, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.
Hunter, BH 2006, Benchmarking the Indigenous sub-sample of the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children: implications for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra.
Penman, R 2006, The ‘growing up’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: a literature review, Occasional Paper No. 15, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.
Penman, R 2006, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander views on research in their communities, Occasional Paper No. 16, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra.