Equality and difference arguments in Australian Indigenous affairs: Examples from income support and housing
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 38
Year published: 2008
This paper explores the complex and never-ending dialectic between equality and difference in Australian Indigenous affairs. It begins with examples from debates over the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the income security system in the 1960s and 1970s, and then explores Noel Pearson’s…
Fresh water in the Maningrida region’s hybrid economy: Intercultural contestation over values and property rights
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Branchut, V
Paper no: 46
Year published: 2008
This report presents preliminary research about fresh water governance arrangements in the Maningrida region of some 10,000 square kilometres in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. The report begins with a discussion of methodology before turning to a description of the region’s water resources. The…
Indigenous Labour Supply Constraints in the West Kimberley
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 39
Year published: 2008
The West Kimberley is the latest region in Western Australia 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 emerging. Juxtaposed is an Indigenous population that has…
Indigenous legal rights to freshwater: Australia in the international context
Author/editor: Durette, M
Paper no: 42
Year published: 2008
The paper undertakes a comparative overview of the law as it pertains to Indigenous rights in freshwater in four countries: the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. It is organised around four themes of particular concern to contemporary Indigenous Australians: ownership of water,…
Indigenous welfare reform in the Northern Territory and Cape York: A comparative analysis
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Johns, M
Paper no: 44
Year published: 2008
This paper examines and compares two Indigenous jurisdictions in the Northern Territory and Cape York that have been subject to radical policy interventions by Federal and State Governments. The Northern Territory intervention emerged from the June 2007 release of the Ampe Akelyernemane Meke…
Interactions between crime and fertility in the labour supply of Indigenous Australian women
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Daly, A
Paper no: 40
Year published: 2008
Indigenous Australian females are under-represented in the Australian labour force and in employment. According to the Population Census of 2006, 49 per cent of Indigenous females were in the labour force compared with 58 per cent of other Australian females. The unemployment rate for Indigenous…
Locations of Indigenous Population Change: What Can We Say?
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Biddle, N
Paper no: 43
Year published: 2008
The ABS 2006 Post Enumeration Survey was extended to include a sample of localities from the whole of Australia, thereby providing an estimate of census net undercount reflective of the enumeration in remote Indigenous settlements for the first time. The results revealed substantial undercounting…