Location or qualifications? Revisiting Indigenous employment through an analysis of census place-of-work data
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 61
Year published: 2009
One of the potential constraints on achieving the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) employment target is location. It has been noted by a number of authors that the very different geographic distributions of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations is a key factor in explaining the…
Ranking regions: Revisiting an index of relative Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 50
Year published: 2009
For any chance of success in achieving targets for improvement in Indigenous socio-economic outcomes, policy makers need to understand where relative and absolute need is greatest. To summarise the distribution of relative need, a single index can be used to rank regions or areas within regions. In…
Social benefits of Aboriginal engagement in Natural Resource management
Author/editor: Hunt, J, Altman, JC, May, K
Paper no: 60
Year published: 2009
This paper examines the social benefits of Aboriginal engagement in natural resource management (NRM) in New South Wales (NSW). It first explores what may be meant by Aboriginal engagement in NRM and then outlines the NSW policy context in which that occurs. Before examining the social…
Some reflections on the quality of administrative data for Indigenous Australians: The importance of knowing something about the unknown(s)
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Ayyar, A
Paper no: 51
Year published: 2009
The Repeat Offenders Database, which has been collated by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, offers a unique opportunity to analyse data quality issues for an important source of administrative data for Indigenous people. This paper provides several independent…
The geography and demography of Indigenous migration: Insights for policy and planning
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 58
Year published: 2009
One of the more consistent findings of census-based analysis is that nationally, Indigenous Australians change their place of usual residence more often than the non-Indigenous population. Between 2001 and 2006, 46.5 per cent of the Indigenous population changed their place of usual residence,…
Towards a gender-related index for Indigenous Australians
Author/editor: Yap, M, Biddle, N
Paper no: 52
Year published: 2009
In the United Nations Development Programme Gender-related Development Index, Australia ranks in the top five across 179 countries, suggesting that women are achieving similar outcomes to men in life expectancy, literacy and earnings at the national level, and that the loss of human development due…
A regional analysis of Indigenous participation in the Western Australian labour market
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Taylor, J
Paper no: 45
Year published: 2008
Western Australia sits poised to reap huge benefits from a super-cycle of resource exploitation. Labour demand is at an all-time high and challenges in securing an adequate labour supply are already evident. It is ironic then, that the very people whose land base is exploited to generate much of…