Participation and representation in ATSIC elections: A ten-year perspective
Author/editor: Sanders, WG, Taylor, J, Ross, K
Paper no: 198
Year published: 2000
This paper examines participation and representation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) elections over the ten-year period since its inception in 1990. It attempts to identify patterns of participation that seem to be emerging and what these might suggest about…
Social exclusion, social capital, and Indigenous Australians: Measuring the social costs of unemployment
Author/editor: Hunter, B
Paper no: 204
Year published: 2000
In a purely economic sense, unemployment in the Australian community is extremely costly. The costs of unemployment will be particularly pronounced if its social, psychological, and economic impacts are concentrated among long-term unemployed and if its effects spill over onto other family…
Surveying mobile populations: Lessons from recent longitudinal surveys of Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Smith, D
Paper no: 203
Year published: 2000
Geographically mobile populations are notoriously difficult to survey, especially in a cross-cultural context. In broad terms, it is difficult to ensure that respondents are representative of the underlying population and that data obtained are relevant to them. At a practical level, the…
The CDEP in town and country Arnhem Land: Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Johnson, V
Paper no: 209
Year published: 2000
This Discussion Paper presents the findings of research undertaken in 2000 on the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme administered by the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (BAC). BAC is located in the township of Maningrida in central Arnhem Land, and the CDEP scheme has…
The economic status of Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 193
Year published: 2000
This paper examines the economic status of Indigenous Australians as a self-identifying group. It is an early version of an entry to the 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of the Australian People, to be published in 2001. Indigenous Australians today face a diversity of economic…
The effects of the CDEP scheme on the economic status of Indigenous Australians: Some analyses using the 1996 Census
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Gray, MC
Paper no: 195
Year published: 2000
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is currently the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission's (ATSIC's) most significant program. Since its establishment in 1977, this Indigenous-specific program has been variously described as a labour market program, an…
The reform agenda for vocational education and training: Implications for Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Campbell, S
Paper no: 202
Year published: 2000
The objective of this paper is to review reform to the vocational education and training (VET) sector over the last decade in the context of Indigenous participation. In particular, it focuses on the five objectives of the National Strategy as these were…