The fiscal equalisation model: options for ATSIC's future funding policy and practice
Author/editor: Smith, D
Paper no: 42
Year published: 1993
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) currently lacks integrated policy guidelines for its distribution of funds at regional, state and national levels. Smith (1993) examined ATSIC's existing financial powers and budgetary processes and…
The position of older Aboriginal people in the labour market
Author/editor: Daly, A
Paper no: 43
Year published: 1993
The focus of this paper is on the position of Aboriginal people over the age of 50 years in the labour market, as recorded in the 1986 Population Census. This group accounted for a smaller proportion of the adult Aboriginal population than this age group did in…
The rise and rise of the CDEP scheme: an Aboriginal 'workfare' program in times of persistent unemployment
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 54
Year published: 1993
This paper updates an earlier article explaining the development of the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme over the years since its inception in the mid 1970s. It does so under three headings: governmental and bureaucratic politics;…
Work and welfare for Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Daly, A, Hawke, A
Paper no: 48
Year published: 1993
An issue frequently raised in the literature on the economic status of Aboriginal people is the importance of welfare transfers as a source of income, yet there is very little aggregate information documenting this. The purpose of this paper is to present the…
A comparison of the socioeconomic characteristics of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Gaminiratne, K
Paper no: 35
Year published: 1992
Selected social and economic indicators from the 1986 Census are presented to test the proposition that at an aggregate level Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people display differing socioeconomic status from one another. Although provision is made in the…
Aboriginal population change in remote Australia, 1986-91: Data issues
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 34
Year published: 1992
Given the crucial role played by census data in informing economic and social policies directed at the Aboriginal population in remote areas, some assessment of the quality of remote area data is required as these are derived from enumeration procedures which…
Aborigines, tourism and sustainable development
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Finlayson, J
Paper no: 26
Year published: 1992
An issues paper on 'Aborigines and Tourism' was commissioned by the Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) Tourism Working Group on 3 June 1991. It followed a verbal presentation on Aboriginal issues to the ESD Tourism Working Group by the authors in May 1991…