The application of income support obligations and penalties to remote Indigenous Australians, 2013–18
Author/editor: Fowkes, L.
Paper no: 126
Year published: 2019
This paper analyses the pattern of income support penalties applied to people participating in remote employment services from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2018. Between 30 000 and 37 000 unemployed Australians were participating in these services at any given time during this period. More than 80% were…
'Normalising' Aboriginal Housing in the Kimberley: Challenges at the interface of new public management approaches
Author/editor: Hunt, J
Paper no: 123
Year published: 2018
The abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and the national government reform agenda of the mid-2000s brought about ‘mainstreaming’ of Indigenous programs and opened them up to new public management (NPM) principles. This paper discusses this change, particularly…
Ongoing growth in the number of Indigenous Australians in business
Author/editor: Shirodkar, S & Hunter, B & Foley, D
Paper no: 125
Year published: 2018
Abstract: In 2014, Boyd Hunter attempted to provide a consistent estimate of the growth in Indigenous self-employment between 1991 and 2011. Changes in the census questionnaire structure and sequencing means that projecting the growth trends back to 1991 is now problematic. This paper…
Poverty transitions in nonremote indigenous households: the role of labour market and household dynamics
Author/editor: Danille Veen, Boyd Hunter
Paper no: 124
Year published: 2018
Using data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this paper estimates year-to-year poverty entry and exit rates for Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals living in nonremote areas of Australia. Indigenous Australians of working age have a higher probability…
Changing associations of selected social determinants with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health & wellbeing, 2002 to 2012-13
Author/editor: Crawford, H, Biddle, N
Paper no: 113
Year published: 2017
This report uses data from national health and social surveys of the Indigenous population, conducted between 2002 and 2012-13, to examine whether associations of some key social determinants with selected health and wellbeing outcomes changed over that time. Consistently during the decade,…
Community functioning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: analysis using the 2014–15 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 115
Year published: 2017
One of the major changes in Indigenous policy over the past decade and a half is the systematic reporting by government of socioeconomic and other outcomes of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population. Much, although not all, of this reporting makes comparisons with the non-Indigenous…
Dynamics of the digital divide
Author/editor: Radoll, P, Hunter, B
Paper no: 120
Year published: 2017
The digital divide between Indigenous and other Australians describes the unequal access to information and communications technology (ICT) between these groups. Historically, researchers have focused on acquiring new technology, but we argue that it is important to understand all the dynamics of…