Bridging the digital divide: The role of community online access centres in Indigenous communities
Author/editor: Daly, A
Paper no: 273
Year published: 2005
This paper presents data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing to highlight the low levels of computer and internet usage by Indigenous Australians. This result is not surprising given the well-documented connection between education, income, and use of these technologies. In addition…
Capacity development in the international development context: Implications for Indigenous Australia
Author/editor: Hunt, J
Paper no: 278
Year published: 2005
Capacity development has become a key concept in international development in recent years. Older approaches involving technical cooperation, in which knowledge and skills were to be transferred to developing countries, have been unsuccessful. In contrast capacity development is viewed as an…
Housing tenure and Indigenous Australians in remote and settled areas
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 275
Year published: 2005
This paper adopts a socioeconomic and policy systems approach to housing tenure patterns. It argues that the housing tenure system in more densely settled Australia, dominated by home ownership, does not fully penetrate to remote areas for either Indigenous or other households. It uses data from…
Indigenous Job Search Success
Author/editor: Gray, MC, Hunter, B
Paper no: 274
Year published: 2005
One important and under-researched aspect of labour market policy is the extent to which policy interventions are effective in modifying job search behaviour. Furthermore, there is little extant research on whether certain job search behaviours lead to labour market success. Our analysis uses…
Land rights and development reform in remote Australia
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Linkhorn, C, Clarke, J
Paper no: 276
Year published: 2005
There has been escalating media coverage of the view that Indigenous economic disadvantage and housing and infrastructure shortages are linked to communal title to land resulting from land rights and native title. A variety of powerful figures have been suggesting that privatizing or…
Policy issues for the Community Development Employment Projects scheme in rural and remote Australia
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Gray, MC, Levitus, RI
Paper no: 271
Year published: 2005
One of the most important programs for Indigenous community and economic development is the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme. CDEP employs around 35,000 Indigenous Australians and accounts for over one-quarter of total Indigenous employment. This paper reviews the evidence…
The economic value of wild resources to the Indigenous community of the Wallis Lake catchment
Author/editor: Gray, MC, Altman, JC, Halasz, N
Paper no: 272
Year published: 2005
There is currently a growing policy interest in the effects of the regulatory environment on the ability of Indigenous people to undertake customary harvesting of wild resources. This Discussion Paper develops and describes a methodology that can be used to estimate the economic benefits derived…