This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities
and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are
viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social
economic and health-related disadvantage both in Australia and in other countries with
colonised Indigenous populations such as Canada the US and New Zealand. This book contributes
to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents
considered by the editors to have continuing relevance to all those concerned with dealing with
alcohol-related harms among Aboriginal peoples These are contextualised in original chapters
that recount key events ideas and programs. The book is a practical resource for all people
and groups concerned with addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol-related
harms both at the community level and at the level of policy-making and administration.
