Developing an Indigenous Arts Strategy for the Northern Territory: Issues paper for consultations
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 22
Year published: 2003
This Issues Paper is a first step in the development of an Indigenous Arts Strategy (IAS) for the Northern Territory (NT). It aims to do two things. First, to assess the current state of Indigenous arts in the NT. Second, to canvass issues for consideration by arts stakeholders and to facilitate…
Banking on Indigenous communities: Issues, options, and Australian and international best practice
Author/editor: McDonnell, S, Westbury, N
Paper no: 18
Year published: 2002
The ability of people to manage and budget their incomes, arrange to pay third parties, purchase food, goods and services, and maintain a level of financial and economic independence and planning, all rely on maintaining informed access to appropriate banking and financial services. The rhetoric…
Generating finance for Indigenous development: Economic realities and innovative options
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 15
Year published: 2002
This is an exploratory ideas paper that sets out to consider how real development futures might be financed and delivered to Indigenous people, especially those residing in rural and remote regions. These are places where there are limited conventional development opportunities—where development…
Indigenous Australians and competition and consumer issues: A review of the literature and an annotated bibliography
Author/editor: Altman, JC, McDonnell, S, Ward, S
Paper no: 12
Year published: 2002
This working paper is based on a literature search conducted to identify and review relevant Australian and overseas research that is of relevance to Indigenous competition and consumer protection matters. The focus of the literature search has been on matters of relevance to Indigenous…
Institutional factors underpinning Indigenous labour force participation: The role of the CDEP scheme and education
Author/editor: Hunter, B
Paper no: 14
Year published: 2002
Labour force participation and attachment to the labour market is a key determinant of economic well being. It is surprising, therefore, how little analysis there is of Indigenous labour supply. In order to address this omission, data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
One size fits all?: The effect of equivalence scales on Indigenous and other Australian poverty
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Kennedy, S, Biddle, N
Paper no: 19
Year published: 2002
Indigenous households are more likely to be multi-generational and have several families in residence than other Australian households. Equivalence scales attempt to control for family size and composition and the relative costs of maintaining various families. We use the 1995 National Health…
The potential use of tax incentives for Indigenous businesses on Indigenous land
Author/editor: Stanley, O
Paper no: 17
Year published: 2002
The purpose of this paper is to examine how effective tax incentives could be in encouraging the development of Indigenous businesses on Indigenous land in Australia. Within the Australian tax system there already exists a range of incentives. Most of them, however, are for the purpose of…