CDEP as urban enterprise: The case of Yarnteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation, Newcastle
Author/editor: Smith, D
Paper no: 114
Year published: 1996
This paper is the most recent in a series of case studies investigating the socioeconomic and policy features characteristic of urban Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) schemes. Yarnteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Corporation is located…
Change in the relative occupational status of Indigenous workers, 1986-1991
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Liu, J
Paper no: 104
Year published: 1996
This paper considers whether Indigenous employment strategies implemented over the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s coincided with an improvement in occupational status for Indigenous workers and a movement towards greater similarity with the occupational…
Community involvement in education: an exploration of American Indian education policy and implications for Australia
Author/editor: Schwab, RG
Paper no: 120
Year published: 1996
Indigenous education policy has long emphasised the need to increase the involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and community members in local education. Yet attempts to increase involvement invariably raise important questions about the…
Estimating the social rate of return to education for Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Junankar, PN, Liu, J
Paper no: 123
Year published: 1996
This paper compares estimates of the social rate of return to education for Indigenous Australians with those for non-Indigenous Australians. The social rate of return measures the net benefits to society of educating its citizens. If education is treated as an…
Further policy implications of rising Aboriginal fertility in the 1990s
Author/editor: Tesfaghiorghis, H
Paper no: 103
Year published: 1996
Previous Aboriginal fertility studies based on comprehensive analyses of the 1986 and earlier Australian censuses found a trend of a substantial fertility decline in the 1970s and early 1980s, which led to the conclusion that the decline would continue. However,…
Having it 'both ways': The continuing complexities of community-controlled Indigenous education
Author/editor: Schwab, RG
Paper no: 111
Year published: 1996
The recent National Review of Education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (1995) called for research and analysis of the immediate and long-term complexities of building community-controlled education for Indigenous Australians. As noted in that…
Income poverty among Indigenous families with children: estimates from the 1991 Census
Author/editor: Ross, RT, Mikalauskus, A
Paper no: 110
Year published: 1996
This paper brings together information from the 1991 Census of Population and Housing and the 1990 Income and Housing Costs and Amenities Survey to estimate poverty rates for Indigenous families and non-Indigenous families at the time of the 1991 Census and to…