Employment implications of the growth of the Indigenous Australian working-age population to 2001
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Gaminiratne, K
Paper no: 53
Year published: 1993
This paper has been specifically prepared as a submission to the review of the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP) which is to be completed early in 1994. A critical innovative feature of the Commonwealth Government's AEDP, launched in 1986-87, is its…
Indicative projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population to 2011
Author/editor: Gray, A, Gaminiratne, K
Paper no: 52
Year published: 1993
This discussion paper presents indicative projections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population for a 20-year period from 1991. The 1991 base population has been reconstructed after adjusting for data problems evident in the age-distribution of the…
Indigenous Australians and the labour market: issues for the union movement in the 1990s
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Hawke, A
Paper no: 45
Year published: 1993
The Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP) aims to achieve economic equality between Indigenous and other Australians by the year 2000 via three goals: employment equality, income equality and commensurate levels of welfare dependence. Achieving…
Indigenous Australians in the National Tourism Strategy: impact, sustainability and policy issues
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 37
Year published: 1993
The key aim of this paper is to inject a degree of policy and economic realism into discussions about Aboriginal involvement in tourism. There is a growing policy impetus for an increased Aboriginal participation in tourism. From a macro-policy perspective, this…
Reconciling public accountability and Aboriginal self-determination/self-management: is ATSIC succeeding?
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 51
Year published: 1993
Since the early 1970s Commonwealth Governments have been pursuing policies of self-determination/self-management in relation to Aborigines. In 1987, the Hawke Government announced its intention to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (…
Rethinking the fundamentals of social policy towards Indigenous Australians: block grants, mainstreaming and the multiplicity of agencies and programs
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 46
Year published: 1993
Social policy towards Indigenous Australians was fundamentally rethought in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The result is the current involvement in this policy area of large numbers of government agencies and programs across the range of functional responsibilities…
Self-employment amongst Aboriginal people
Author/editor: Daly, A
Paper no: 39
Year published: 1993
Self-employment has been regarded as an important avenue for the social and economic advancement of some disadvantaged groups such as migrants. As measured by the census it has, however, remained of little importance to Aboriginal people. In 1986, only 1.3 per…