Coping with locational advantage: The economic development potential of tourism at Seisia community, Cape York Peninsula
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 98
Year published: 1995
This discussion paper focuses on economic issues raised in a consultancy report Coping with Locational Advantage: Seisia and the Tourism Industry commissioned by the Seisia Island Council and undertaken in November 1994. The consultancy was undertaken by…
Enumerating the Aboriginal population of remote Australia: methodological and conceptual issues
Author/editor: Martin, D, Taylor, J
Paper no: 91
Year published: 1995
Despite claims of underenumeration of Indigenous people, a basic problem in establishing the demography of remote Indigenous populations remains the lack of well documented and adequately controlled independent checks against census data. This paper attempts to…
Equity for Aboriginal families in the 1990s: The challenges for social policy
Author/editor: Finlayson, J
Paper no: 94
Year published: 1995
This paper addresses the policy question of how to achieve equity and social justice for Aboriginal families through social policy in the 1990s. This would appear to be simply a matter of finding the 'right' policy formula since policy makers are well informed of…
Estimating the private rate of return to education for Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Daly, A, Liu, J
Paper no: 97
Year published: 1995
The purpose of this discussion paper is to estimate the private rate of return to post-compulsory education for Indigenous compared with other Australians. The results presented here show that there are considerable financial benefits to completing a post-…
Indigenous employment and job segregation in the Northern Territory labour market
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 83
Year published: 1995
Implicit in the aims of the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP) and the Native Title Social Justice measures is a need to upgrade the occupational status of Indigenous workers and increase their spread across the range of industries. This need is…
Indigenous peoples and reshaping Australian institutions: two perspectives
Author/editor: Pearson, N, Sanders, WG
Paper no: 102
Year published: 1995
Noel Pearson's 'An Optimist's Vision' sees becoming a Republic as a major opportunity for Australia to move away from its colonial, mono-cultural past. The paper conceives of three population movements in Australian history which raise issues for this process:…
Local governments and Indigenous Australians: Developments and dilemmas in contrasting circumstances
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 84
Year published: 1995
This paper examines developments and dilemmas in relations between local governments and Indigenous Australians over the last quarter century. It establishes a framework for analysis based on differences in local government systems, circumstances and populations…