Water flow allocation and Indigenous natural resource mapping: Empowering communities
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Indigenous people in North America have been mapping aspects of their land and resources for many years. Many First Nations communities in Canada have done this type of mapping which is known by various names such as 'cultural mapping', 'land use and occupancy mapping' or 'tenure mapping'. In the…
Reviewing the Northern Territory intervention one year on: Conceptual and methodological considerations and some observations
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The NTER intervention is to be reviewed one year on, as promised by the ALP in the lead up to the election. According to the original terms of the emergency intervention, the one year anniversary also marks the end of the proposed 'stabilisation' phase (although all intervention measures have not…
Indigenous Art - Securing the Future: The Senate inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector one year on.
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The recent passing away of a significant number of senior Aboriginal artists has raised concern about the future of Aboriginal art. This, together with reports of a market flooded with second-rate work and a lingering anxiety that the popularity of Aboriginal art may have run its course animates my…
'Development' in Indigenous Australia: international meanings and local approaches
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There is growing recognition that a 'development' approach to Indigenous communities could be useful, in contrast to (or to complement) a service delivery approach to Indigenous Affairs. But what does a development approach mean? There are many different ideas about what 'development' is and how it…
Literacy and remote Indigenous youth: Why social practice matters
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Writing about literacy in the remote Aboriginal context rarely considers anthropological aspects such as whether literacy has been incorporated into social practice, and how we understand change, transmission and transformation in the evolving social practices and cultural conceptions of reading…
The politics of 'the gap' in Australia and New Zealand
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This paper is part of a longer project about the history of Indigenous population statistics in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In the contemporary use of official statistics by Indigenous and non-Indigenous policy intellectuals, a particular understanding of social justice has emerged. Public…
Challenges for sustainable governance in the development and implementation of comprehensive mining agreements
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Agreement making, especially through Indigenous Land Use Agreements, is an increasingly important aspect of native title practice. Major mining agreements in particular are typically highly complex legally-driven documents which focus on meeting or reconciling the various parties' perceived…