People On Country: Research Outputs

On this page you will find research outputs associated with People on Country, including briefing papers, field reports, materials from project partners, CAEPR Discussion and Working Papers, seminar podcasts and handouts, and photographic and streaming video resources.

Partner Summaries

• Djelk (2.4 Meg PDF document)

• Garawa (2.9 Meg PDF document)

• Warddeken Land Management Limited (2.5 Meg PDF document)

• Waanyi/Garawa (3.3 Meg PDF document)

• Yirralka Land and Sea Management (1.2 Meg PDF document)

• Yugul Mangi Land and Sea Management Corporation (2.0 Meg PDF document)

Streaming Video

• Wanyubi Marika, Laynhapuy IPA Manager, speaks in Yolgnu Matha about a fire management workshop.
• Wanyubi Marika, Laynhapuy IPA Manager, speaks in English about a fire management workshop.
• Garawa Ranger Jack Green talks about the meaning of country.
• Jack Green talks about initiatives to connect kids with country.
• Jack Green talks about managing country with fire.
• Yugul Mangi senior ranger Cherry Daniels talks about bush tucker.

Seminars

Click on the links below to listen to seminars via streaming audio or podcast files, and to view seminar handouts.

• CAEPR Seminar - ' Valuing Indigenous harvest and management of dugong and marine turtles: The Bardi Jawi case study', by Geoff Buchanan, Daniel Oades and Mark Shadforth, August 27 2008.
• CAEPR Seminar - 'Caring for Country: An overview of Aboriginal land management in the Top End of the Northern Territory', by Sean Kerins, April 16 2008.
• CAEPR Seminar - 'Saving and Strengthening CDEP: A remote Australia policy treasure', by Will Sanders, August 13 2008.

Publications

• 'Fresh water in the Maningrida region’s hybrid economy: Intercultural contestation over values and property rights', CAEPR Working Paper 46/2008 by J.C. Altman assisted by V. Branchut.

• 'Indigenous welfare reform in the Northern Territory and Cape York: A comparative analysis', CAEPR Working Paper 44/2008 by J.C. Altman & M. Johns.

• 'Indigenous legal rights to freshwater: Australia in the international context', CAEPR Working Paper 42/2008 by M. Durette.

• 'The environmental significance of the Indigenous estate: Natural resource management as economic development in remote Australia', CAEPR Discussion Paper 286/2007 by J.C. Altman, G.J. Buchanan & L. Larsen.

• 'Local governments and Indigenous interests in Australia’s Northern Territory', CAEPR Discussion Paper 285/2006 by W.G. Sanders.

Newsletters

• POC Newsletter No.1
  POC Newsletter No.1, July 2009
  [4 pages, 689 K PDF file, [12 August 2009]

Topic Guides

• Indigenous Freshwater Rights
  Indigenous Freshwater Rights Topic Guide by Hannah Bulloch. Now updated, a resource on Indigenous interests in freshwater in Australia, providing an introductory guide to relevant literature, and dealing with issues including inland waters, groundwater, water in rivers and billabongs and water-dependent terrestrial ecosystems.
  [21 pages, 2.5 Meg PDF file, updated 22 October 2009]

Submissions

• Outstations/Homelands Policy
  Communique to the Prime Minister on Outstations/Homelands Policy, by participants of the joint Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)/Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) Forum on Homelands and Outstations, 27-28 October 2009.
  [1 page, 259 K PDF file, 02 November 2009]

• The Abolition of CDEP
  The untimely abolition of the Community Development Employment Program, by Jon Altman and Kirrily Jordan.
  [8 pages, 2.5 Meg PDF file, 8 May 2009]

• Community Stores in Remote Indigenous Communities
  Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Inquiry into Community Stores in Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, by Jon Altman and Kirrily Jordan.
  [11 pages, 4.3 Meg PDF file, 8 May 2009]

• Native Title Agreements and Payments
  A Brief Commentary in Response to the Australian Government Discussion Paper ‘Optimising Benefits from Native Title Agreements’ and the Report of the Native Title Payments Working Group, by Jon Altman and Kirrily Jordan.
  [9 pages, 2.5 Meg PDF file, 8 May 2009]

• The Importance of Supporting Outstations
  Why the Northern Territory Government needs to support Outstations/Homelands in the Aboriginal, Northern Territory and National Interest — a submission to the Northern Territory Government Outstation Policy Discussion Paper, by Jon Altman, Seán Kerins, Bill Fogarty, and Kate Webb.
  [14 pages, 2.5 Meg PDF file, 16 December 2008]

• CDEP Past and Future
  Submission to the Australian Government's 'Increasing Indigenous Employment Opportunity' Discussion Paper, by Jon Altman, including an annotated chronology of the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) Program 1977-2008 prepared by Melissa Johns.
  [18 pages, 2.1 Meg PDF file, 02 December 2008]

• Natural Resource Management
  Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport on Natural Resource Management and Conservation Challenges, focussing on natural and cultural resource management activities undertaken by Indigenous Australians.
  [7 pages, 2.1 Meg PDF file, 01 December 2008]

• Environment Protection and Biodiversity
  Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts inquiry into the operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, exploring the fundamental significance of the peopled landscape or 'people on country' in the natural resource management of the Australian continent.
  [9 pages, 2.1 Meg PDF file, 28 November 2008]

• Indigenous Enterprise
  Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Inquiry into developing Indigenous enterprises, by J.C. Altman & K. Jordan. This submission highlights the emerging opportunities for Indigenous enterprise in natural resource management, including in the response to climate change, and the need to identify and support these activities.
  [14 pages, 2.1 Meg PDF file, 17 September 2008]

• Northern Territory Intervention
  Submission to The Northern Territory Emergency Response Review, by J.C. Altman. This submission explores the current nature of policy making in the Northern Territory and the ongoing problems surrounding Indigenous economic development. It makes a number of evidence-based recommendations concerning the NTER policy framework.
  [16 pages, 2.2 Meg PDF file, 09 September 2008]

• Climate Change
  Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Australians: Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review, by J.C. Altman and K. Jordan. Indigenous Australians now own over 20 per cent of the continent under a number of different forms of tenure. Much of this Indigenous estate is in relatively intact environmental condition and has high biodiversity value. This submission is based on preliminary CAEPR research and highlights some of the potential costs of climate change to Indigenous Australians, and notes some of the positive contributions that Indigenous Australians might make to ameliorate anthropomorphic causes of global warming.
  [12 pages, 2.2 Meg PDF file, 19 May 2008]

Reports

• January-June Report 2009
  POC Project Report, January to June 2009 — outputs and planning.
  [11 pages, 2.5 Meg PDF file, [30 June 2009]

• POC First Quarter Report 2009
  First Quarter Report 2009 — outputs and planning.
  [7 pages, 2.5 Meg PDF file, [11 May 2009]

• POC Annual Report 2008
  Annual Report 2008 — detailing the first year of the People on Country project.
  [25 pages, 8.9 Meg PDF file, [13 February 2009]

Links Of Interest

• Northern Land Council - Caring For Country
  The NLC Caring for Country Unit helps Aboriginal landowners deal with land and sea management challenges - including fire management and feral weed and animal control. The establishment of Aboriginal ranger groups has been a central part of the Unit's work.
• Seagrass-Watch - Global Seagrass Monitoring!
  Seagrass-Watch aims to raise awareness on the condition and trend of nearshore seagrass ecosystems and provide an early warning of major coastal environment changes.
• Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts - Working on Country
  Working on Country builds on traditional Indigenous land management by contracting Indigenous people to provide environmental services. Their work will help to maintain, restore, protect and manage Australia's environment - the land, sea and heritage.
• Working on Country - Photographic competition 2008
  Select photographs by Indigenous ranger groups from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts' 'Working on Country' photographic competition.

Communique to the Prime Minister on Outstations/Homeland Policy
[02 Nov 2009]

Indigenous Freshwater Rights Topic Guide
[Updated: 22 Oct 2009]

POC Newsletter, July 2009
[12 August 2009]

POC Project Report, January-June 2009
[30 June 2009]

The Untimely Abolition of CDEP
[8 May 2009]

Community Stores in Remote Indigenous Communities
[8 May 2009]

Native Title Agreements and Payments
[8 May 2009]
[2 Mar 2009]

People On Country 2008 Annual Report
[13 Feb 2009]

Yugul Mangi Rangers 2008 Activity Report [12 Jan 2009]

Why the Northern Territory Government needs to support Outstations/Homelands
[16 Dec 2008]

CDEP Past & Future
[02 Dec 2008]

Natural Resource Management
[02 Dec 2008]

27 August 2008

CAEPR Seminar: Indigenous harvest and management

'Valuing Indigenous harvest and management of dugong and marine turtles: The Bardi Jawi case study', by Geoff Buchanan, Daniel Oades, Mark Shadforth. [Listen …]

Laynhapuy Fire Management Workshop

Wanyubi Marika describes the workshop in both Yolgnu Matha and English. [Watch …]

Managing Country with Fire

Garawa Ranger Jack Green talks about fire management. [Watch …]

The Indigenous Estate

'The environmental significance of the Indigenous estate: Natural resource management as economic development in remote Australia' by J.C Altman, G.J. Buchanan & L. Larsen. [More …]

E-mail: peopleoncountry@anu.edu.au
Phone: (02) 6125 0587
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