Community development in central Australia: Broadening the benefits of land use agreements
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Discussions are currently underway as to how to enable Indigenous people to optimise benefits from Native Title agreements or Indigenous Land Use Agreements ( ILUAs). Research on a range of agreements between Indigenous people and extractive industries suggests that equitable benefits from…
Alternate models for engaging and developing skills, experience and knowledge in Indigenous youth: Pre-fieldwork presentation for a PhD Thesis
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The statistics relating to young Indigenous people and educational retention and attainment as well as employment have been widely stated. However, less clear, is what can be done to support Indigenous youth to achieve their aspirations in these and other areas. Whilst current literature suggests…
A rounded debate in Indigenous affairs: Balancing competing principles with individuals and groups
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This seminar begins with the idea of three competing principles in Indigenous affairs as an analytic framework. The dominant principle is equality, which suggests that Indigenous Australians ought in some important way to be equal to settler Australians. Different interpretations of this equality…
Artful Science: Rethinking how the young learn
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Anthropologists who study socialization tend to do so in order to compare modes and values of child-rearing or to examine the role of language in child-rearing. Rarely have anthropologists attended to the ways in which children learn to discern, appreciate, and take part in forms of artful…
Amending the APY Land Rights Act in 2004, 2005 and 2006: Petrol Sniffing and the Contribution of the Coroner in Catalysing Change
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In 2002 the South Australian Coroner made recommendations from Inquests into deaths from petrol sniffing on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. In 2005 the South Australian Coroner made additional recommendations following Inquests into a number of further deaths…
Harnessing assets of advantage: Building sustainable enterprises and employment in Arnhem Land Aboriginal communities through cross sector relationships in land management, tourism and the arts
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We apologise that this week's seminar by Meg Switzer and Nicholas Hall has been cancelled. We hope to be able to present it in early 2010. The seminar will outline a new model of economic development that harnesses and integrates the economic advantage that Indigenous people have in relation to…
‘Why don’t they just talk with us?’: Aboriginal perspectives on their engagement with governments
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Sometimes these people in government don’t communicate. People live in a dark corner here lookin’ for the light. Where is the light? Just feeling their way. At the moment it’s like a …I dunno….just like a big whirl of water. You know if you stir that water round it’s just like it’s goin’…