Successful Urban Aboriginal-Driven Community Development: A Place-Based Study of Newcastle
Author/editor: Howard-Wagner, D.
Paper no: 293
Year published: 2017
This discussion paper is a sociological account of the history of successful urban Aboriginal community development by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people in the Australian city of Newcastle. It endeavours to explain the strategy that Aboriginal people in Newcastle have adopted for taking…
Experimental governance in Australian Indigenous affairs: From Coombs to Pearson via Rowse and the competing principles
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 291
Year published: 2014
The competing principles framework for analysing Australian Indigenous affairs is revisited, starting with Rowse on 'the Coombs experiment'. Rowse rehabilitates this term from pejorative critics, arguing that all government policy in Indigenous affairs is experimental. The task becomes one of…
Lessons from a History of Beer Canteens and Licensed Clubs in Indigenous Australian Communities
Author/editor: Brady, M
Paper no: 290
Year published: 2014
The idea that alcoholic drinks should be made available in licensed canteens or clubs in discrete Aboriginal communities has a contentious history in Australian public policy. This discussion paper aims to provide some historical depth to the latest resurgence of interest in the idea. The paper…
Ideology, Evidence and Competing Principles in Australian Indigenous Affairs: From Brough to Rudd via Pearson and the NTER
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 289
Year published: 2009
This paper tracks the recent rise of ideology and evidence discourse as a way of describing good and bad Indigenous affairs policy. Expressing dissatisfaction with this discourse, it suggests a slightly more complex analytic way of thinking about Indigenous affairs involving three competing…
How realistic are the prospects for 'closing the gaps' in socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians?
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Biddle, N, Hunter, B
Paper no: 287
Year published: 2008
‘Practical reconciliation’ and more recently ‘closing the gaps’ have been put forward as frameworks on which to base and then evaluate policies to address Indigenous disadvantage. This paper uses census-based analysis at the national level to examine trends in Indigenous wellbeing since 1971. There…
Indigenous Participation in Regional Labour Markets, 2001-06
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Taylor, J, Yap, M
Paper no: 288
Year published: 2008
This paper examines the extent to which Indigenous Australians have shared in the large expansion of the Australian workforce that is revealed by a comparison of 2001 and 2006 census results. It considers whether this is reflected in changes to regional patterns of Indigenous labour force status,…
The environmental significance of the Indigenous estate: Natural resource management as economic development in remote Australia
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Buchanan, G, Larsen, L
Paper no: 286
Year published: 2007
This discussion paper explores the geography of the Indigenous estate, its environmental significance, and some of the innovative approaches adopted by Indigenous landholders to protect the natural and cultural values of their land. A number of maps are used to explore the environmental…