Out of harms way: Towards an Indigenouscentric approach to harmminimization

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Out of harms way Towards an Indigenous-centric
approach to harm-minimization

• By Marisa Fogarty
• Phd Student
• Charles Darwin University

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• Reference www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic
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Methodology

• Popular venue with both Indigenous and
  non-Indigenous people.
• Attended venue three times a day
• 1030am, 3.30pm, 10.30pm
• Venue divided into three sections
• Counted attendance at machines
• Participant Observation
• Semi-structured ethnographic interviews
• Used similar methodology to Footes 1996 study of
  Darwin Casino

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NT Population

• Indigenous people make up 33 of total NT
  population (ABS)
• Indigenous people made up 12 of attendance at
  machines
• Remote Indigenous people make up 81 of
  Indigenous population NT (27 of total NT
  population) (ABS)
• Remote Indigenous people make up 80 of
  Indigenous attendance at machines (9.5 of
  attendance at machines)

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• Mobility
• Gender
• 81 of Indigenous people at machines were female
• 87 of people playing cards in community were
  female
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