Towards an Indigenous order of Australian government: Rethinking self-determination as Indigenous affairs policy
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 230
Year published: 2002
This paper begins with a historical analysis of both the rhetoric and the institutions of Australian Indigenous affairs since self-determination was first adopted as Commonwealth government policy in late 1972. It then moves on to conceive of these institutional…
Urban CDEPs as Indigenous Employment Centres: Policy and community implications
Author/editor: Champion, M
Paper no: 228
Year published: 2002
This paper explores the federal government's continued development of its Indigenous Employment Policy (IEP) with the launch of additional Indigenous-specific welfare reform initiatives flagged in the May 2001 Budget. One of these new initiatives focuses in…
Welfare and the domestic economy of Indigenous families: Policy implications from a longitudinal survey
Author/editor: Daly, A, Henry, R, Smith, D
Paper no: 239
Year published: 2002
This paper reports on a critical aspect of research findings from a three-year study conducted among Indigenous people living in and around the town of Kuranda in Northern Queensland, namely the role and impacts of welfare within the domestic economy of families. The research arose from a…
A regional CDEP for four remote communities? Papunya, Ikuntji, Watiyawanu and Walungurru
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 224
Year published: 2001
The four remote Aboriginal communities involved in this study have not been among those with a Community Development Employment Project (CDEP) over the last ten or twenty years. Some interest in these communities having CDEP was expressed in early 2000, and as a…
Anangu population dynamics and future growth in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 211
Year published: 2001
The population of Mutitjulu has grown substantially and at a rate above the regional average since the community was established in 1985. There have been several counts of the population since then, and five of these are presented in sequence to chart the growth in numbers. Overall, they…
Autonomy rights in Torres Strait: From whom, for whom, for or over what?
Author/editor: Sanders, WG, Arthur, W
Paper no: 215
Year published: 2001
In recent years, Torres Strait Islanders have made a number of calls for greater governmental autonomy within the Australian federal system. This paper examines a number of these calls and government responses to them. It observes that progress towards greater…
Building Indigenous learning communities
Author/editor: Schwab, RG, Sutherland, D
Paper no: 225
Year published: 2001
This paper proposes the building of Indigenous learning communities as an avenue to address the limited engagement of Indigenous Australians with education. Against the backdrop of current discussions of social capital and community capacity building, the paper explores educational policy and…