Indigenous Education: Experiential Learning and Learning through Country
Author/editor: Fogarty, W, Schwab, RG
Paper no: 80
Year published: 2012
In Indigenous policy circles there is an increasingly desperate desire to lift the educational and employment outcomes of remote Indigenous students, relative to their non-Indigenous peers in the rest of Australia. A lack of engagement with education and a scarcity of jobs underpin this…
Indigenous youth engagement in natural resource management in Australia and North America: A review
Author/editor: Fordham, A, Schwab, RG
Paper no: 85
Year published: 2012
With the continuing high levels of Indigenous youth unemployment and low levels of school attendance among Indigenous youth, Indigenous communities and education systems are seeking new approaches to increase Indigenous youth participation in education, training and employment. This priority among…
Population change in Port Augusta: Challenges and implications for the COAG Urban and Regional Strategy
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Westbury, N
Paper no: 87
Year published: 2012
In 2009, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to include an Urban and Regional Strategy as part of the Indigenous Reform Agreement aimed at coordinating the delivery of services to Indigenous Australians. The main purpose of this strategy was to ensure that government agencies…
Statistics for Community Governance: The Yawuru Indigenous Population Survey of Broome
Author/editor: Taylor, J, Doran, B, Parriman M, Yu, E
Paper no: 82
Year published: 2012
This paper presents a case study of an exercise in Aboriginal community governance. It sets out the background events that led the Yawuru Native Title Holders Aboriginal Corporation to secure information for its own needs as an act of self-determination and essential governance, and it presents…
Alice Springs’ Unrepresentative Council: Cause for Intervention?
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 76
Year published: 2011
The paper explains how the vote counting system used in Northern Territory local government leads to very poor electoral outcomes which concentrate representation rather than spread it. It discusses how, in the case of Alice Springs, this has produced a narrowly based council with no…
An Exploratory Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Indigenous Children
Author/editor: Biddle, N
Paper no: 77
Year published: 2011
The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) or Footprints in Time is the first large-scale longitudinal survey in Australia to focus on the development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) children. The analysis presented in this paper is structured around six…
Changing Scale, Mixing Interests: Generational Change in Northern Territory Local Government
Author/editor: Sanders, WG
Paper no: 79
Year published: 2011
This paper examines recent local government reform in the Northern Territory from two perspectives. The first is a quantitative perspective on population and finances, which focuses on the mixing of diverse interests in the recent changes. The second is a more observational perspective gained from…