Indigenous Australians & Mining: Developing a Sustainable Future?
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Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, will launch Power, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining on Wednesday 26 August. This latest CAEPR Research Monograph is edited by Professor Jon Altman and Dr David Martin, and is published by ANU E Press.…
Donald Rumsfeld and the quality of Indigenous administrative data
Activity
The Repeat Offenders Database (ROD), which has been collated by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, offer a unique opportunity to analyse data quality issues for an important source of administrative data for Indigenous people. This seminar provides several independent…
Indigenous ecological knowledge and western science: Critical foundations for the development of sustainable wildlife enterprises in remote Indigenous communities
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Sustainable wildlife enterprises in remote Indigenous communities are an important source of economic development and employment whilst providing people with opportunities to continue their close connection with country and maintain customary wildlife harvesting practices. Critical to the success…
Wellbeing and Indigenous Australians
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In recent years there has been an increasing recognition of the limits of GDP as a measure of 'progress' and a growing emphasis on notions of wellbeing, satisfaction, or quality of life. A number of alternative measures of national progress have emerged both in Australia and overseas, with some of…
'Buffalo talk': Developing Indigenous ranger capacity
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This seminar reports on the development of Indigenous ranger capacity to monitor and document their land management activities and guide management strategies, drawing on a case study with the Manwurrk Rangers and feral animal control in western Arnhem Land.
Harvest studies in hybrid economies: Exploring the socioeconomics of the customary use of wildlife
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This paper discusses the use of harvest studies to explore the nature of Indigenous community economies in remote Indigenous Australia. In particular, it looks at the potential for harvest studies to better inform development strategies for culturally appropriate and sustainable economies in these…
Quantifying the Stolen Generations: Possible? Desirable?
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This paper is my invited contribution to a book of essays about the Stolen Generations edited by Robert Manne, to be published later in 2009. In the first half of my paper I review some of the controversy about putting a figure on the Stolen Generations, and I describe the unpublished…