Fresh Water in the Maningrida Region's Hybrid Economy: Intercultural Contestation over Values and Property Rights - Fresh Water in the Maningrida Region's Hybrid Economy
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Branchut, V
Paper no: 2
Volume no: 60
Year published: 2008
This report was prepared for the North Australian Indigenous Land & Sea Management Alliance's (NAILSMA) Indigenous Water Policy Group (IWPG), and is hosted on the NAILASMA website. The NAILSMA IWPG project aims to articulate the least known aspects of water policy particularly relevant to north…
Fresh water in the Maningrida region’s hybrid economy: Intercultural contestation over values and property rights
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Branchut, V
Paper no: 46
Year published: 2008
This report presents preliminary research about fresh water governance arrangements in the Maningrida region of some 10,000 square kilometres in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The report begins with a discussion of methodology before turning to a description of the region’s water resources. The…
Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Australians: Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review - Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Australians: Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Jordan, K
Paper no: 3
Volume no: 61
Year published: 2008
Indigenous Australians now own over 20 per cent of the continent under a number of different forms of tenure. Much of this Indigenous estate is in relatively intact environmental condition and has high biodiversity value. This submission is based on preliminary CAEPR research and highlights some of…
Indigenous legal rights to freshwater: Australia in the international context
Author/editor: Durette, M
Paper no: 42
Year published: 2008
The paper undertakes a comparative overview of the law as it pertains to Indigenous rights in freshwater in four countries: the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. It is organised around four themes of particular concern to contemporary Indigenous Australians: ownership of water,…
Indigenous welfare reform in the Northern Territory and Cape York: A comparative analysis
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Johns, M
Paper no: 44
Year published: 2008
This paper examines and compares two Indigenous jurisdictions in the Northern Territory and Cape York that have been subject to radical policy interventions by Federal and State Governments. The Northern Territory intervention emerged from the June 2007 release of the Ampe Akelyernemane Meke…
Permits, private property, and cultural survival - The Permit System
Author/editor: Morphy, F, Morphy, H
Paper no: 12
Volume no: 70
Year published: 2008
Permits, private property, and cultural survival', an opinion piece exploring federal attempts to remove the permit system in the Northern Territory, first published in The Age Online on 10 October 2008. [23 October 2008]
Re-vitalising the Community Development Employment Program in the Northern Territory - Re-vitalising the Community Development Employment Program in the Northern Territory
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Sanders, WG
Paper no: 5
Volume no: 63
Year published: 2008
This submission was prepared in response to the Northern Territory Government's Review of Community Development Employment Program discussion paper. The submission, focusing mainly on CAEPR research findings produced since 1990, provides evidence-based research findings that the Community…