The Clearinghouse Collection focuses on topics related to the COAG Building Blocks that underpin the Closing the Gap targets.
The Collection is drawn from library resources held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare or the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Links are provided to online documents, where available. Other items may be borrowed via an interlibrary loan through your local library.
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Quality-Assessed Collection
The Quality-Assessed Collection includes:
- evaluations of programs and activities
- research examining the cost-benefit and/or cost-effectiveness of programs and activities
- research on adapting/implementing mainstream programs for Indigenous Australian and Indigenous non-Australian populations
- programs, strategies and practices for responding to traumatised individuals and communities, across all the priority areas.
Subject specialists have completed a comprehensive quality assessment of items in this Collection.
With advice from the Scientific Reference Group and the panel of subject specialists, the Clearinghouse has identified a list of items for quality assessment in 2009-10 (98 KB DOC).
General Collection
The General Collection is a compilation of material related to the COAG targets and building blocks. Records in the Collection have not been quality-assessed by the Clearinghouse.
Some research is distributed through conference presentations or journal articles. Researchers are encouraged to inform the Clearinghouse of the most relevant version of their research to display in the collection by sending an email to .
Sensitivity statement
Language
The Closing the Gap Clearinghouse uses the term ‘Indigenous Australians’ to refer to Australia’s first people. This term refers to ‘Aboriginal Australians’ and ‘Torres Strait Islander people’. The Clearinghouse Collections may contain words and descriptions that are culturally insensitive and not appropriate for contemporary use. Terms and annotations which reflect the author’s attitude or that of the period in which the item was written may be considered inappropriate today.
Deceased persons
Users of the Clearinghouse Collections should be aware that it may include images of deceased persons. In some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, seeing images of deceased persons may cause distress or sadness and, in some cases, offend against strongly held cultural traditions.