The rise of the CDEP scheme and changing factors underlying Indigenous employment
Author/editor: Hunter, B
Paper no: 13
Year published: 2002
The dominance of the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in certain regions of Australia complicates the interpretation of any analysis of Indigenous employment. In order to enhance interpretation, the factors underlying Indigenous employment should be examined separately for…
The spatial context of Indigenous service delivery
Author/editor: Taylor, J
Paper no: 16
Year published: 2002
As with all economic activities that consider proximity to a client base as part of their locational decision-making, the geographic distribution of banking and financial services has, until quite recently at least, been determined largely by a spatial calculus of market demand and supply. In…
Indigenous Australian arrest rates: Economic and social factors underlying the incidence and number of arrests
Author/editor: Hunter, B
Paper no: 10
Year published: 2001
The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison continues to be a serious problem, even a decade after the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody were handed down. The greatest leverage for reducing Indigenous imprisonment rates appears to lie in…
Indigenous communities and business: Three perspectives, 1998–2000
Author/editor: Altman, JC
Paper no: 9
Year published: 2001
This paper was presented at the 4th Doing Business with Aboriginal Communities Conference held in Alice Springs in February 1998. Conference presentations covered a great deal of material on Indigenous, governmental and industry perspectives on doing business with Aboriginal communities. These…
Sensitivity of Australian income distributions to choice of equivalence scale: Exploring some parameters of Indigenous incomes
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Kennedy, S, Smith, D
Paper no: 11
Year published: 2001
Indigenous families experience substantial and multiple forms of economic burden arising from the size and structure of their families and households. Indigenous households are more likely to have more than one family in residence than other Australian households and are more likely to be multi-…
Governance and service delivery for remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory: challenges and opportunities
Author/editor: Westbury, N, Sanders, WG
Paper no: 6
Year published: 2000
Much has been written about the issues of Aboriginal Australian self-determination, self-governance and sovereignty. This report attempts to identify a way forward on some of the challenging self-governance and service delivery issues facing governments and Aboriginal peoples, by identifying…
The relative social and economic status of Indigenous people in Bourke, Brewarrina and Walgett
Author/editor: Ross, K, Taylor, J
Paper no: 8
Year published: 2000
This profile of the relative social and economic status of Indigenous people in Bourke, Brewarrina and Walgett was prepared at the request of the New South Wales State Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to inform discussions to be held between ATSIC…