The Benefits of Caring for Country was prepared for the Department of Sustainability, Environment,
Water, Population and Communities by Dr Jessica K Weir, Ms Claire Stacey and Dr Kara Youngetob from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Canberra, June 2011.
The Health and Wellbeing Benefits in Section 3 of this review is in part adapted and updated from Cynthia Ganesharajah’s Indigenous Health And Wellbeing: The importance of country, Native Title Research Report No. 1/2009, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.