Looking after country in New South Wales: Implementing a Land & Sea Country Plan on the far south coast
Author/editor: Hunt, J
Paper no: 90
Year published: 2013
This case study is about the Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council's (LALC) engagement in cultural and natural resource management and the organisation's recent efforts to enhance these through development of a Land & Sea Country Plan. The paper outlines the early involvement and gradual exclusion…
New directions in Indigenous service population estimation
Author/editor: Markham, F, Bath, J, Taylor, J
Paper no: 88
Year published: 2013
Accurate assessments of the number of people who access goods or services in a particular location are crucial to the equitable allocation of resources and the delivery of services. In particular, Indigenous Australians are an important subpopulation for whom such estimates would be useful, given…
Recent growth in Indigenous self-employed and entrepreneurs
Author/editor: Hunter, B
Paper no: 91
Year published: 2013
Historically, Indigenous people have largely been excluded from building businesses in Australia. Recent reductions in Indigenous disadvantage, especially improvements in Indigenous skills, may have combined with other policy changes to make it easier for Indigenous entrepreneurs to set up…
Community development for sustainable early childhood care and development programs: A World Vision Australia and Central Land Council partnership
Author/editor: Hunt, J
Paper no: 86
Year published: 2012
This paper outlines the final case study in a research project which examines how international development non-government organisations (NGOs) conduct their work with Aboriginal organisations and communities in Australia. I was keen to explore how international NGOs working with Indigenous…
Continuity and change in the CDEP Scheme
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Gray, MC
Paper no: 84
Year published: 2012
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an example of a program that combines community development and labour market program elements. This paper describes the nature of CDEP employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also…
Determinants of Indigenous Labour Supply Following a Period of Strong Economic Growth
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Gray, MC
Paper no: 81
Year published: 2012
This paper provides evidence on changes in the labour force status of Indigenous and other Australians since the mid-1990s, a period of strong macroeconomic growth. The paper expands the standard definitions of labour supply to consider marginally attached workers—people who want to work but…
Higher education and the growth of Indigenous participation in professional and managerial occupations
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Gray, MC, Hunter, B
Paper no: 83
Year published: 2012
In April 2011, the Australian Government announced a Review into Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. In order to assist the Review, the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research was commissioned by Department of Employment, Education…