The following table accounts for all the cultural safety questions in the survey, except the matter regarding the future of the basin which has already been discussed. The scores in this table are only about whether the respondent thinks their views are shared, not what their views are. A low Capital Assets score and a high cultural safety reading would only mean that there was general understanding or respect for Traditional Owners seeing little importance for environmental watering in relationship to a specific asset. If this point of view was shared across a community it would suggest to a water planner that attempting to institute environmental watering as an aspect of Aboriginal socioeconomic development will be met with some resistance in the broader community. Such resistance could come from Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal sources. However, a high Capital Assets score with high cultural safety would point the way to a culturally safe pathway for environmental watering being used for Aboriginal sociocultural purposes. Table 20: Indication of cultural safety of views regarding environmental water. (2=100%) respondents’ Asset Weighted Weighted Weighted average - average - average Weighted Brewarrina St George average 25,29,33,37,41 1.65 1.74 1.44 2 (100%) Q’s and 45 combined: My views about these questions are respected by the Physical broader community where I live 1.61 1.73 1.41 (71%) 1.73 Social 1.64 1.72 1.53 1.55 Financial 1.71 1.81 1.56 1.55 Natural 1.67 1.77 1.51 1.64 Human 1.7 1.76 1.61 1.73 Cultural interpretation NBAN’s In St George, where there are more white people in relationship to Aboriginal populations, people do not understand the importance of water to Traditional Owners. Whereas in Brewarrina there is a greater percentage of Aboriginal populations, and therefore greater understanding of these matters in non-Aboriginal populations. With a couple of exceptions, the weighted averages for the responses to these questions were lower than those for other questions in Part C. The range was 71-100% a range of nearly — 30%. Notably, in Dirranbandi there is respect for Traditional views about having access to Owners’ their waterways as part of their everyday physical infrastructure (100%). Traditional Brewarrina’s Owners enjoyed less cultural safety regarding their interests in accessing their waterways and participation in Aboriginal organisational life. St George offered less cultural safety with regard to
The following table accounts for all the cultural safety questions in the survey, except the matter regarding the future of the basin which has already been discussed. The scores in this table are only about whether the respondent thinks their views are shared, not what their views are. A low Capital Assets score and a high cultural safety reading would only mean that there was general understanding or respect for Traditional Owners seeing little importance for environmental watering in relationship to a specific asset. If this point of view was shared across a community it would suggest to a water planner that attempting to institute environmental watering as an aspect of Aboriginal socioeconomic development will be met with some resistance in the broader community. Such resistance could come from Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal sources. However, a high Capital Assets score with high cultural safety would point the way to a culturally safe pathway for environmental watering being used for Aboriginal sociocultural purposes. Table 20: Indication of cultural safety of respondents’ views regarding environmental water. (2=100%) Asset Weighted average Weighted average - Brewarrina Weighted average - St George Weighted average Q’s 25,29,33,37,41 and 45 combined: My views about these questions are respected by the broader community where I live Physical 1.65 1.74 1.44 2 (100%) Social 1.61 1.73 1.41 (71%) 1.73 Financial 1.64 1.72 1.53 1.55 Natural 1.71 1.81 1.56 1.55 Human 1.67 1.77 1.51 1.64 Cultural 1.7 1.76 1.61 1.73 NBAN’s interpretation In St George, where there are more white people in relationship to Aboriginal populations, people do not understand the importance of water to Traditional Owners. Whereas in Brewarrina there is a greater percentage of Aboriginal populations, and therefore greater understanding of these matters in non-Aboriginal populations. With a couple of exceptions, the weighted averages for the responses to these questions were lower than those for other questions in Part C. The range was 71-100% — a range of nearly 30%. Notably, in Dirranbandi there is respect for Traditional Owners’ views about having access to their waterways as part of their everyday physical infrastructure (100%). Brewarrina’s Traditional Owners enjoyed less cultural safety regarding their interests in accessing their waterways and participation in Aboriginal organisational life. St George offered less cultural safety with regard to
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