This project, brought together – in a special section of the May 2006 issue of the journal Drug and Alcohol Review – eight papers on alcohol and other drug issues among Indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand. The papers covered: prevention of petrol sniffing in Central Australia; the role of community stores in smoking prevention; the role of a sobering-up shelter; liquor licensing restrictions; the reconciliation of community values ‘harm minimisation’; opioid substitution; and workforce development.
The collection was edited by Dennis Gray (NDRI), Sherry Saggers (Edith Cowan University) Lisa Jackson Pulver (University of NSW) and John Waldon (Massey University, NZ) who also to provided special editorial assistance to Indigenous authors. The editors also wrote a paper contextualising and commenting upon the eight papers and the lessons learnt from them.