Indigenous heritage protection, native title and regional agreements
Author/editor: Finlayson, J
Paper no: 145
Year published: 1997
Central to the argument of this paper is a critical examination of the potential to strike local and regional agreements in Victoria between Indigenous and other parties in a context of impending proposed legislative changes to Indigenous cultural heritage (…
Indigenous poverty since the Henderson Report
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Hunter, B
Paper no: 127
Year published: 1997
This paper examines the contribution of Ronald Henderson to empirical and policy research into Indigenous poverty. The Poverty Inquiry (also known as the Henderson Report) drew attention to the particular situation of the Indigenous poor and generated awareness…
Indigenous sole parent families: Invisible and disadvantaged
Author/editor: Daly, A, Smith, D
Paper no: 134
Year published: 1997
This paper identifies the key characteristics of Indigenous sole-parent families relative to other such Australian families and analyses the factors associated with their ongoing high levels of economic disadvantage using ethnographic research, the 1991 Census, the…
Indigenous TAFE graduates: patterns and implications
Author/editor: Schwab, RG
Paper no: 138
Year published: 1997
Technical and Further Education is now recognised as one of the most significant and popular avenues for Indigenous participation in education, yet a reliable statistical portrait of Indigenous participation in TAFE has never been readily available. Even less has…
Native Title Representative Bodies: The challenge of strategic planning
Author/editor: Finlayson, J
Paper no: 129
Year published: 1997
This discussion paper is the result of empirical research. The argument is driven by the question of what constitutes appropriate and practical Native Title Representative Body (NTRB) responses to the proposed amendments where legislation is expected to focus on…
Opportunities and problems astride the welfare/work divide: the CDEP scheme in Australian social policy
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 141
Year published: 1997
Australian social policy is characterised by a program and institutional divide between welfare income and work income. ATSIC's CDEP scheme sits astride this divide and has done so for 20 years. This position astride the welfare/work divide has been a source…
Post-compulsory education and training for Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Schwab, RG
Paper no: 131
Year published: 1997
There exists in Australia a significant tension between the nature and definition of government goals of education, which are substantially economic, and the essentially social educational goals of Indigenous people. This paper addresses those tensions as they…