Creating a sense of 'closure': Providing confidence intervals on some recent estimates of Indigenous populations
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Dungey, MH
Paper no: 244
Year published: 2003
The 'error of closure' is the population growth that cannot be accounted for either by natural increase or by quantifiable non-demographic factors. The term is somewhat misleading: since it incorporates all unquantifiable components of the increase in a population count, it is unlikely ever to…
Developing a land and resource management framework for Kaanju homelands, Central Cape York Peninsula
Author/editor: Smith, B, Claudie, D
Paper no: 256
Year published: 2003
This paper outlines efforts by Kaanju families to develop a comprehensive framework for the management of traditional lands and their associated resources on Kaanju homelands. Based at the Chuula homeland camp on the upper Wenlock River, Kaanju people are attempting to move beyond involvement as…
Governance for sustainable development: Strategic issues and principles for Indigenous Australian communities
Author/editor: Dodson, M, Smith, D
Paper no: 250
Year published: 2003
This Discussion Paper examines the concepts of ‘governance’, ‘good governance’ and ‘sustainable development’ in the context of Australian Indigenous communities and regions. It explores the hypothesis that there is vital link between governance and sustainable development. The first half of the…
Indigenous economic futures in the Northern Territory: The demographic and socioeconomic background
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 246
Year published: 2003
This paper examines 1996 and 2001 Census data to establish recent changes in Indigenous and non-Indigenous employment and income status in the Northern Territory. Also explored are some of the constraints and opportunities facing Indigenous people in their effort to increase their share of…
Innovative institutional design for sustainable wildlife management in the Indigenous-owned savanna
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Cochrane, MJ
Paper no: 247
Year published: 2003
This paper examines a particular form of cooperative wildlife management on Aboriginal land in the tropical savanna of the Northern Territory, in the context of broader questions about governance. It asks how governance at the state, regional and local level can be designed to ensure sustainable…
Monitoring 'practical' reconciliation: Evidence from the reconciliation decade, 1991-2001
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Hunter, B
Paper no: 254
Year published: 2003
This paper sets out to examine, at the national level, changes in the socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australians during the decade 1991-2001, a period that closely matches 'the reconciliation decade'. The information used is from three five-yearly censuses undertaken by the Australian Bureau…
Options for benchmarking ABS population estimates for Indigenous communities in Queensland
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Bell, M
Paper no: 243
Year published: 2003
Concerns have been expressed for some time by Indigenous community leaders, analysts, government agencies, and local service providers about the accuracy of census counts for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland. Recent reclassification of these communities as Local…