Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, will launch Power, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining on Wednesday 26 August. This latest CAEPR Research Monograph is edited by Professor Jon Altman and Dr David Martin, and is published by ANU E Press.

Since the 1970s the federal political response to conditions in many Aboriginal communities has escalated from one of concern to today's rhetoric of 'national emergency'. In the intervening decades, policy had been repeatedly reoriented, from self-determination to mainstreaming, and from reconciliation to intervention. The result has been successive and unambiguous policy failures.