‘Connecting the Dots’: The Role of Psychology in Indigenous Australia

Abstract

“The greatest difficulty in improving Indigenous mental health is not finding data, but finding mechanisms to convince governments ... that to connect the unresolved trauma of dispossession, child removal, missionisation, racism and overincarceration to contemporary distress is not adopting a “black armband view of history”. The dots are on the page. There is a lack of political will to join them up.”