Indigenous Communities Environmental Health: A National Workforce Capacity Building Program
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Many websites contain helpful information for Indigenous environmental health practice. Use of search engines such as Google  www.google.com  can often bring you the information you need or check the sites below under the groupings of Organisations, Information  and Publications. The HealthInfoNet site at Edith Cowan University covers a wide range of issues relevant to Indigenous health, including the physical environment.

Organisations which may be useful
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
www.atsic.gov.au
Australian Bureau of Statistics
www.abs.gov.au
Australian Department of Health & Ageing
www.health.gov.au
Australian Institute of Environmental Health 
www.aieh.org.au
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 
www.aihw.gov.au
Australasian Legal Information Institute
www.austlii.edu.au
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, NT
www.batchelor.edu.au
Cairns TAFE, Qld
www.tnqit.tafe.net
Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT)
  www.icat.org.au
Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
www.health.gov.au
enHealth Council
enhealth.nphp.gov.au
Environment Australia 
www.ea.gov.au
Environmental Defender's Office 
www.edo.org.au
Environmental Health Needs Co-ordinating Committe, WA
  www.dia.wa.gov.au/Forums/ehncc
Environment Protection Agencies
  www.environment.act.gov.au
  www.epa.nsw.gov.au
  www.epa.qld.gov.au
  www.environment.sa.gov.au/epa
  www.epa.vic.gov.au
  www.environ.wa.gov.au
  www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au
Health Departments - States and Territories
  www.health.act.gov.au/c/health
www.health.nsw.gov.au
www.nt.gov.au/health
www.health.qld.gov.au
www.health.sa.gov.au
  www.dhhs.tas.gov.au
  www.dhs.vic.gov.au
www.health.wa.gov.au
HealthInfoNet   
www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au
IHANT - Indigenous Housing Authority of Northern Territory
  www.ihant.org.au
Keep Australia Beautiful
www.keepaustraliabeautiful.org.au
KooriNet 
www.koori.usyd.edu.au

National Institute of Environmental Health Services (NIEHS) 

www.niehs.nih.gov
National Public Health Partnership (NPHP)
www.nphp.gov.au
National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (NOHSC) 
www.nohsc.gov.au
NSW Department of Fair Trading 
www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au
NSW Department of Local Government
www.dlg.nsw.gov.au
Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
www.health.gov.au/oatsih/cont.htm
Public Health Association of Australia   
www.pha.org.au
Pundulmurra College, South Hedland, WA
www.hedland.edu.au
Remote Area Development Group
  www.etc.murdoch.edu.au/radg.html

UWS Regional Integrated Monitoring Centre 

www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/cste/sea/research/rimc

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Information about:
Chemical Hazard Management in Children's Environment 
www.toolsforhealthyschools.org
Community resources 
www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au
Community funding, giving and help online
www.ourcommunity.com.au
Dog health and Big Lick
www.amrric.org/main.html
Food standards - safety, hygiene
  www.foodstandards.gov.au
National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary 
Chemicals
www.nra.gov.au
National Toxics Network 
www.oztoxics.org/ntn
Natural Resources Information (CANRI) in NSW 
www.canri.nsw.gov.au/activities
Practical environmental health manual for remote communities
  http://appserv.menzies.edu.au/pls/portal30/docs/FOLDER/
Septic systems
  http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/Files/Information/ssguide.pdf
Solid waste disposal
  http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/enviro/ and click on Waste Management and Pollution Control

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Publications on the web

The following links were active when this page was created. If they no longer work, try the website of the main organisation (address up to the first /). Publications are sometimes moved around a site.

The Department of Health and Ageing has a site for documents on Environmental Health www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/environ.htm

A Better Dog's Life: proceedings of a three-day conference on dog health programs in Indigenous communities, August 2000
www.amrric.org/proceedings/BigLickProceedings.pdf

Accountability in Indigenous Environmental Health Services - Australia 2002
enhealth.nphp.gov.au/council/pubs/pdf/accountability.pdf

Common Ground and Common Sense: Community-based Environmental Health: an action handbook
www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/cste/sea/research/rimc/cehapsah

Environmental Health Risk Perception in Australia 2000
www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/metadata/envrisk.htm

Environmental Health Needs Co-ordinating Committee of WA has numerous publications available on:
www.dia.wa.gov.au/Forums/ehncc/publications.html

Grass Roots and Common Ground: Guidelines for Community-based Environmental Health Action  www.uws.edu.au/about/acadorg/cste/sea/research/rimc/cehapsgr

Guidelines for the Siting, Design and Management of Sold Waste Disposal Sites in the Northern Territory, 2003 http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/enviro/ and click on Environmental Guidelines

Indigenous Environmental Health monographs 
enhealth.nphp.gov.au/council/pubs/ecpub.htm

National Environmental Health Implementation Plan 2000 www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/envstrat_imp.pdf

National Environmental Health Strategy
1999 

www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/envstrat.pdf

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