Scrapping CDEP is just Plain Dumb -
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 11
Volume no: 53
Year published: 2007
Ministers Joe Hockey and Mal Broughs' decision to abolish the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in remote Indigenous communities in the NT will have marked impacts on the arts industry, the management of Indigenous Protected Areas, and community-based Caring for Country ranger…
Stabilise, normalise and exit = $4 billion -
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 9
Volume no: 51
Year published: 2007
A costing estimate for the Howard Government's intervention into Northern Territory Indigenous communities. (First published in Crikey, 29 June 2007.)
The 'National Emergency' and Land Rights Reform: Separating fact from fiction -
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 12
Volume no: 54
Year published: 2007
This report, commissioned by Oxfam Australia, provides compelling evidence to argue that the proposed changes to the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 have no connection with the incidence of child sexual abuse; are likely to jeopardize the effectiveness of the…
The Howard Government’s Northern Territory Intervention: Are Neo-Paternalism and Indigenous Development Compatible? - The Howard Government’s Northern Territory Intervention: Are Neo-Paternalism and Indigenous Development Compatible?
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 16
Volume no: 58
Year published: 2007
In this publication version of his keynote address to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Conference ‘Forty Years On: Political transformation and sustainability since the Referendum and into the future’, given in Canberra on 7 November 2007, Professor Altman…
Yet another failed Howard government experiment in Indigenous affairs? -
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 7
Volume no: 49
Year published: 2007
An initial response to the Howard Government's new approach to Indigenous Affairs, announced on 21 June 2007. (First published in Crikey, 22 June 2007.)
Views From The Top of the 'Quiet Revolution' (Streaming Audio) -
Author/editor: Gray, W, Sanders, WG
Paper no: 1
Volume no: 34
Year published: 2006
In February 2005, Minister Amanda Vanstone addressed the National Press Club on the new arrangements in Indigenous affairs. She identified these new arrangements as a 'quiet revolution in Indigenous affairs'. Within the context of the new arrangements, the Australian Public Service is undergoing…
Amended Land Rights Law will be Bad Law -
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 8
Volume no: 41
Year published: 2006
'Amended Land Rights Law will be Bad Law', a submission to the Senate Community Affairs Committee Inquiry into Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2006.