‘You got any Truck?’ Vehicles and decentralised mobile service-provision in remote Indigenous Australia
Author/editor: Fogarty, W
Paper no: 30
Year published: 2005
Service provision in remote Indigenous Australia is highly dependent on vehicle availability and profoundly affected by usage constraints. This paper seeks to explore elements of conflict and points of alignment in the intercultural exchange between service providers and those Indigenous people…
Early Indigenous engagement with mining in the Pilbara: Lessons from a historical perspective
Author/editor: Holcombe, S
Paper no: 24
Year published: 2004
This paper traces the development of the first private company set up by Aboriginal people in Western Australia. This company, Northern Development and Mining (Nodom), was formed in the late 1940s to enable Aboriginal members of the company to develop an economic base from mining and pastoralism in…
Indigenous household structures and ABS definitions of the family: What happens when systems collide, and does it matter?
Author/editor: Morphy, F
Paper no: 26
Year published: 2004
In August 2001 three CAEPR researchers, each based in a different community, observed the conduct of the national Census in the Northern Territory and Cape York Peninsula. The purposes of this research were twofold: to evaluate the ABS’s Indigenous Enumeration Strategy as it was applied in this…
Socio-political perspectives on localism and regionalism in the Pintupi Luritja region of central Australia: Implications for service delivery and governance
Author/editor: Holcombe, S
Paper no: 25
Year published: 2004
This paper explores the tensions between localism and regionalism within the Indigenous polity of the Haasts Bluff Land Trust. The anthropological trend has been to focus on localism and the tendency toward dispersal and ‘atomism’. As a result less recognition has been accorded the Indigenous…
A New Model of Inclusion? Centrelink's development of income support service delivery for remote Indigenous communities
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 23
Year published: 2003
When Centrelink was established in 1997, it inherited from the Department of Social Security a model of service delivery for Indigenous communities in remote areas built around relatively large social security offices based in urban centres and agents based in Indigenous communities. Some…
Caring for country and sustainable Indigenous development: Opportunities, constraints and innovation
Author/editor: Altman, JC, Whitehead, PJ
Paper no: 20
Year published: 2003
This paper explores how Indigenous community-based natural resource management can generate both conservation benefit and economic development opportunity. We begin by noting that much of the Indigenous estate in north Australia is either thinly populated or unpopulated. There is emerging…
Chasing the money story: An evaluation of the Tangentyere Bank Pilot Project and its relevance to Indigenous communities in central Australia
Author/editor: McDonnell, S
Paper no: 21
Year published: 2003
A study of the Tangentyere Bank Pilot Project is important, as it is often cited as a ‘best practice’ model of financial service provision and financial literacy training (see McDonnell and Westbury 2002). For this reason, this report focuses on aspects of the Tangentyere project that may be…