Cultural burning in New South Wales: Challenges and opportunities for policy makers and Aboriginal peoples
Author/editor: B. Williamson
Paper no: 139
Year published: 2021
The Independent Inquiry into the New South Wales (NSW) experience of the 2019–20 summer bushfires revealed that in NSW, Aboriginal people have not been adequately supported to pursue cultural land management opportunities, including cultural burning. The NSW Government accepted all recommendations…
First Nations Regional and National Representation: Aligning Local Decision Making in NSW with Closing the Gap and the proposed Indigenous Voice
Author/editor: Dreise, T, Markham, F, Lovell, M & Wighton, A
Paper no: 141
Year published: 2021
Recent shifts in national policies have resulted in questions about how established regional forms of representation, such as those involved in NSW’s Local Decision Making initiative, will be aligned with new policy priorities and processes. This paper seeks to clarify the terrain of competing and…
Aboriginal Peoples and the response to the 2019-2020 bushfires
Author/editor: Williamson, B, Markham, F & Weir, JK
Paper no: 134
Year published: 2020
Aboriginal people were among those most affected by the 2019–2020 bushfires in south-eastern Australia. Yet aside from renewed public interest in cultural burning practices, Aboriginal people have received little attention in the post-bushfire response. In this paper, we describe population…
Language use is connected to indicators of wellbeing: Evidence from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey 2014– 15
Author/editor: Y. Dinku, F. Markham, D. Venn, D. Angelo, J. Simpson, C. O’Shannessy, J. Hunt and T. Dreise
Paper no: 137
Year published: 2020
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have repeatedly asserted that individuals, families and communities can achieve better life outcomes if they maintain or develop knowledge and use of Indigenous languages. However, the evidence that rigorously quantifies the…
Measuring the social impact of income management in the Northern Territory: An updated analysis
Author/editor: J.R. Bray
Paper no: 136
Year published: 2020
Income management policies have been in place in the Northern Territory since 2007. These policies limit how recipients of government income support payments can spend a proportion of these funds. The policies were initially directed at Indigenous Australians who remain the major…
Support for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice to Parliament: Evidence from opinion research since 2017
Author/editor: F. Markham and W. Sanders
Paper no: 138
Year published: 2020
The Uluru Statement from the Heart, produced by the National Constitutional Convention in May 2017, contained a major proposal for reform: the alteration of the constitution to establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament. When the Turnbull Government formally responded to this proposition in…
Trends in social security receipt among Indigenous Australians: Evidence from household surveys 1994–2015
Author/editor: D Venn, N.Biddle & W Sanders
Paper no: 135
Year published: 2020
This paper uses data from National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Surveys to examine trends in social security receipt among the Indigenous population between 1994 and 2014/15 as well as documenting the declining receipt of Community Development Employment Project…