Survey - New Public Management, Urban First Nations Organisations and First peoples’ rights

Thank you for choosing to participate in this survey.

The survey has been co-designed by First peoples (who have developed the questions that they believe will be capture the experience of urban First Nations organisations in NSW) and the researchers.

This research will be used to propose new policy knowledge regarding how New Public Management (NPM) practices could be reconfigured in NSW to accommodate and be inclusive of the distinctive role of urban First Nations organisations and enable them to further advance Indigenous rights and community development.

The survey takes about half an hour to complete.

You have been emailed a code which is to be entered into the survey.

Click here to begin the survey.

If you have not been sent a link and code, note that you can elect to complete the survey online or via telephone by sending a request to deirdre.howard-wagner@anu.edu.au.

For more information on the project and to access research publications please visit our webpage.

 

About the research project

This three-year research project (2018-2021), funded by the Australian Research Council, draws on existing partnerships with First Nations organisations and has largely been developed around observations, questions and interests articulated by a number of our collaborative Indigenous research partners.

The research team is comprised of researchers from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU (Associate Professor Deirdre Howard-Wagner (Primary Investigator) and Associate Professor Janet Hunt) and the Institute for Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University (Associate Professor Karen Soldatic and PhD Scholar Jack Gibson). This research is based on an equal partnership between the researchers and the partner First Nations organisations. Accordingly, the researchers work in close collaboration with the project’s First Nations Reference Group which composed of representatives from six urban First Nations organisations in NSW (Butucarbin, First Peoples Disability Network, Muru Mittigar, National Centre for Indigenous Excellence, Tjillari Justice Aboriginal Corporation and The Glen). The reference group is overseeing the design of the research instruments, data management plan, identification of core research preoccupations, and dissemination of the research results.

This research is a team effort in which we are all working together with a shared goal of improving our knowledge and understanding of the distinct role urban First Nations organisations play in society in relation to First Nations peoples and their rights to self-determination and community development, and the provision of programs and services to First Nations peoples. This research partnership is guided by a common commitment to uphold a dynamic of trust, integrity and respect, and to value all knowledge and standpoints and do so by listening, sharing and learning from one another.

The research method includes a state-wide survey of urban First Nations organisations, case study organisational research of four organisations, and two First Nations Discussion Circles involving over ten organisations. The method also includes locality-based First Nations Discussion Circles to which your organisation is invited to participate. The findings of the locality-based Discussion Circles will be key data in this research and will complement and enrich the understanding of the findings emerging from the state-wide survey and organisation case studies.

The survey is being sent to all urban First Nations organisations in the 24 localities, including Local Aboriginal Land Councils, First Nations medical services, and First Nations organisations offering specialised services such as employment and training, youth and family, disability, women’s services. It will include urban Aboriginal organisations that provide multiple services, plus those with integrated social enterprise and asset building functions alongside social service delivery.

The aim of this mixed method study is to understand the effects of the most recent New Public Management reforms on the capacity of successful urban Aboriginal organisations in NSW to play this distinctive role. It seeks to understand and document how New Public Management is affecting the communal and civil society functions of urban Aboriginal organisations

More questions?

If you have any questions, please call Dr Deirdre Howard-Wagner by telephone on 02 61253748 or email deirdre.howard-wagner@anu.edu.au.

 

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