Lowitja: Changing the Narrative in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Australian History Indigenous Studies Ethnography Textbook Cultural Studies Public Health Medical Humanities Social Policy
Lowitja: Changing the Narrative in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health is the 2017 textbook that educators and health-profession students keep on their reference shelf long after the semester ends. In 188 tightly-written pages, Christina Lochert distils the Lowitja Institute’s landmark research into a portable paperback that traces how Indigenous-led solutions have re-framed Australia’s health debate. Readers get the hard data on mortality gaps, but they also meet the community-controlled services, art-therapy programs and culturally-safe nursing models that are turning the tide—evidence that makes this volume a go-to source for essays, policy briefs and grant applications.
What sets the book apart is its insistence on Indigenous voices front-and-centre. Every chapter opens with a first-person vignette from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander leader, followed by concise histories that connect pre-colonial wellbeing traditions to today’s Closing the Gap targets. Lochert’s narrative technique—balancing statistical tables with storytelling—helps non-Indigenous audiences grasp why “changing the narrative” is more than slogan: it is a research methodology, a funding criterion and a community mandate rolled into one. The result is a rare textbook that reads like a conversation rather than a lecture, making it ideal for senior secondary students, undergrads and front-line health workers alike.
Collectors value this first edition for its clean, very-good condition and the instantly recognisable burnt-sienna cover that signals authoritative Indigenous research. Because the Lowitja Institute periodically updates its digital monographs, the original 2017 print run is becoming harder to find in smoke-free, unmarked copies like this one. Whether you need a single replacement text, a class set for a cultural-safety module, or a durable reference that honours Aboriginal knowledge systems, this copy delivers the foundational arguments every Australian health professional is now expected to know.
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