Being a good senior manager in Indigenous community governance: Working with public purpose and private benefit
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 280
Year published: 2006
This paper seeks to understand the role of being a senior manager in Indigenous community governance, particularly though not exclusively in remote Aboriginal communities. It argues against the tendency of analysts and would-be reformers of Indigenous community governance to focus on the competence…
Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs: Not all community organisations, not all in the outback
Author/editor: Foley, D
Paper no: 279
Year published: 2006
The media, academic publications and parliamentary speeches typically perceive Indigenous business enterprises as ‘community’ run ventures. This blanket characterisation is inadequate as it renders the individual Indigenous urban entrepreneur invisible and unconsidered. Confusion in public…
Kids, skidoos and caribou: The Junior Canadian Ranger program as a model for re-engaging Indigenous Australian youth in remote areas
Author/editor: Schwab, RG
Paper no: 281
Year published: 2006
The social and educational disengagement of Indigenous youth, who see education and training as irrelevant to their lives and experiences, is a looming crisis for many Indigenous communities in remote Australia. This paper is an exploration of a youth program in Canada, the Junior Canadian Rangers…
Local governments and Indigenous interests in Australia’s Northern Territory
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 285
Year published: 2006
Australia’s Northern Territory has three categories of local government referred to as municipal, community government and association councils. This paper explores the historical development of these three categories of local governing body since Northern Territory self-government in 1978. Through…
Mãori land and development finance
Author/editor: Linkhorn, C
Paper no: 284
Year published: 2006
This paper examines issues connected with the availability of finance to develop Mãori land and the use of Mãori land as security for loans, using two case studies. The paper concludes with some remarks about the New Zealand situation that might be relevant and of interest to those working with…
Population and diversity: Policy implications of emerging Indigenous demographic trends
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 283
Year published: 2006
There is a compelling need for fresh perspective on the policy implications of Indigenous demographic trends. Current frameworks for considering the structural situation of Indigenous peoples are increasingly focused on State and Territory jurisdictional levels. While this may ease access to data…
Views from the top of the ‘quiet revolution’: Secretarial perspectives on the new arrangements in Indigenous affairs
Author/editor: Gray, W, Sanders, WG
Paper no: 282
Year published: 2006
In the latter months of 2005 we interviewed eleven members of the Commonwealth Government’s Secretaries Group on Indigenous Affairs about their experiences of the new arrangements in Indigenous affairs since July 2004. This paper reports on the findings from those interviews under ten subheadings…