Effective Indigenous Involvement in The Living Murray – Introducing Use and Occupancy Mapping
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The Living Murray Initiative recognises that the aspirations, interests and contributions of Indigenous people are an integral component of contemporary natural resource management and aims to take into account the social, economic and spiritual objectives of Indigenous communities for each of the…
Not yet Jerusalem: A preliminary assessment of Nunavut's first decade
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The Canadian territory of Nunavut ('Our land' in Inuktitut) was created on April 1, 1999, after the 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) resulted in the division of the Northwest Territories and the creation of a 13th jurisdiction at the provincial/territorial level. 85 per cent of Nunavut's…
Entangled dreams: A discussion of the intercultural appeal of Australian Indigenous tourism
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In Australia Indigenous cultural tourism is presented as a treasure trove for economic, social, and cultural opportunities, praised as it is in policy documents, advertising campaigns, travel brochures, and, for instance, in the hospitable invitation of an Aboriginal tourism enterprise in north…
Valuing Indigenous harvest and management of dugong and marine turtles: The Bardi Jawi case study
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Since late 2006 CAEPR has worked on a collaborative research project with the Bardi Jawi Rangers based on the northern tip of the Dampier Peninsula in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. This research was commissioned by the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (…
Reflections from above the 60th parallel north: The challenges of development for Circumpolar Inuit
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There are about 170,000 Inuit, living mostly in Canada (50,000), Greenland (50,000), Denmark (8,000), Russia (1,700), Alaska (44,000) and other parts of the USA (13,000). Their homeland spreads from Greenland across the Arctic stretches of northern America and over the Bering Strait to the eastern…
Saving and Strengthening CDEP: A remote Australia policy treasure
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The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme has been subject to major criticism in recent years for being part of, or little better than, Aboriginal welfare dependence. In the first half of this seminar I will defend CDEP from its critics, by both recounting its origins and…
Closing the gap? Monitoring trends in Indigenous Australians' life expectancy
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The Prime Minister's commitment to narrow the 17-year gap between the life expectancy of Indigenous Australians and that of the total population, and to report annually on progress, echoes similar promises made over the 40 years since the referendum gave the Federal Government a national…