Mapping Indigenous Educational Participation
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Hunter, B, Schwab, RG
Paper no: 267
Year published: 2004
Schwab and Sutherland (forthcoming) present a spatial analysis of the distribution of Indigenous education participation across Australia. Amongst their main findings is the marked effect of geographic isolation on participation. We extend this analysis by relating other Indigenous and non-…
Patterns of Indigenous job search activity
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Gray, MC
Paper no: 263
Year published: 2004
There have been a number of labour market programs that have attempted to increase rates of employment of Indigenous Australians by influencing job search behaviour. However, remarkably little is known about the job search behaviour of Indigenous job seekers or how this compares with the job search…
Regulating social problems: The pokies, the Productivity Commission and an Aboriginal community
Author/editor: Brady, M
Paper no: 269
Year published: 2004
Australia has 21 per cent of the world’s electronic gaming machines—more commonly known as poker machines. Deregulation of the industry has expanded the availability of gaming machines to an extent unprecedented in the western world. As a result there are estimated to be approximately 300,000…
Taming the social capital Hydra? Indigenous poverty, social capital theory and measurement
Author/editor: Hunter, B
Paper no: 261
Year published: 2004
The second labour of Heracles, the epic struggle with the Hydra, is used in this paper as a metaphor for the difficulties that may be encountered in analysing and measuring social capital. In Greek mythology, the Hydra ‘had a prodigious dog-like body, and eight or nine snaky heads, one of them…
Thinking about Indigenous Community Governance
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 262
Year published: 2004
This document brings together four papers on Indigenous community governance which were written as verbal presentations for conferences, seminars and workshops between 2000 and 2003. They argue, from different starting points in response to conference and workshop themes, that Indigenous community…
Torres Strait elections, 2000 and 2004: Changes in political leadership and style?
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 268
Year published: 2004
Torres Strait has 18 local governments, elections for which were held in March of both 2000 and 2004 in conjunction with other local government elections in Queensland. Elections were also held at these times for additional positions on two regional representative bodies for Torres Strait, the…
An Indigenous school and learning community in the ACT? Opportunity, context and rationale
Author/editor: Sutherland, D
Paper no: 258
Year published: 2003
In an effort to move towards a whole-of-government approach to service delivery to Indigenous communities, the Council Of Australian Governments has developed a Reconciliation Framework that is designed to advance the process of reconciliation and address Indigenous disadvantage. Incorporating…