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Better Than Welfare? Work and Livelihoods for Indigenous Australians After CDEP
Author/editor: Jordan, K
Category: CAEPR Monographs
Year published: 2016
The end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest and most influential programs in the Indigenous affairs portfolio, employing...
Engaging Indigenous Economy - Debating Diverse Approaches
Author/editor: Sanders, W
Category: CAEPR Monographs
Year published: 2016
The engagement of Indigenous Australians in economic activity is a matter of long-standing public concern and debate. Jon Altman has been intellectually engaged with Indigenous economic activity for almost 40 years, most prominently through his elaboration of the concept of the hybrid economy, and...
Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Toward An Agenda
Author/editor: Kukutai, T & Taylor, J
Category: CAEPR Monographs
Year published: 2016
As the global ‘data revolution’ accelerates, how can the data rights and interests of indigenous peoples be secured? Premised on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, this book argues that indigenous peoples have inherent and inalienable rights relating to the...
Reluctant Representatives: Blackfella Bureaucrats Speak in Australia's North
Author/editor: Gantner, E
Category: CAEPR Monographs
Year published: 2016
How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can’t even talk to the people you’ve got here that are blackfellas?’ So ‘Sarah’, a senior Aboriginal public servant, imagines a conversation with the Northern Territory Public Service. Her question suggests tensions for Aboriginal and...
Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Author/editor: Biddle, N, Al-Yaman, F, Gourley, M, Gray, M, Bray, JR, Brady, B, Pham, LA, Williams, E, Montaigne, M
Category: CAEPR Monographs
Year published: 2014
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of the major policy innovations of the early 21st century in Australia, representing a new way of delivering services to people with a disability and those who care for them. It has the potential to transform the lives of hundreds of thousands...
My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous People, Mining and Development Contestation in Remote Australia
Author/editor: Scambary, B
Category: CAEPR Monographs
Year published: 2013
Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise such 'futures'. Within the context of three mining agreements in north...
Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia
Author/editor: Hunter, B, Biddle, N
Category: CAEPR Monographs
Year published: 2012
Indigenous policy is a complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Council of Australian Governments ‘closing the gaps’ agenda for addressing Indigenous disadvantage in Australia now includes six targets with well defined and measurable outcomes for...
