Indigenous Economic
Public lecture: Indigenous Australians & Mining: Developing a Sustainable Future?
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
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.
Ethical governance for Benefit Sharing Trusts
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Benefit sharing is a technical term, which was popularised by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The CBD was the first international treaty to recognise that the conservation of biodiversity is a "common concern of humankind".
Chainsaw Dreaming: Indigenous Australians and the forest sector
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Recent figures released by the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) demonstrate that Indigenous engagement with the forest sector tends to be constructed in terms of employment in mainstream timber production forestry. The Commonwealth Government’s National Indigenous Forestry Strategy is currently going down this path, with a focus on areas of employment and business development in production of timber and fibre.
Revisiting the Role of Rhetoric in Economics: A review of Helen Hughes’ Lands of Shame
Topical Issue 7 / 2008
June 2008 - Revisiting the Role of Rhetoric in Economics: A review of Helen Hughes’ Lands of Shame
A review of Helen Hughes’ Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘Homelands’ in Transition (Centre for Independent Studies, 2007) in which Dr Hunter examines the role of rhetoric in economics and the social sciences generally. A version of this review was published in The Economic Record, 84(265) 279–81.
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Challenges for sustainable governance in the development and implementation of comprehensive mining agreements
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Agreement making, especially through Indigenous Land Use Agreements, is an increasingly important aspect of native title practice. Major mining agreements in particular are typically highly complex legally-driven documents which focus on meeting or reconciling the various parties' perceived aspirations and interests within a risk management framework. However, comparatively little attention is given to agreements' necessarily intercultural character, and their roles in social and cultural as well as economic transformation.
Alleviating poverty in remote Indigenous Australia: The role of the hybrid economy
Topical Issue 10 / 2007
July 2007 -
While Australia is one of the world's richest countries, many of its Indigenous peoples live in poverty. This paper seeks to elucidate some avenues for addressing poverty in remote Indigenous Australia via appropriate pro-poor growth strategies. It engages robustly with the dominant Indigenous policy approach that promulgates a view that Indigenous economic development can only be achieved via mainstreaming, and presents an alternative livelihoods approach. (First published in Development Bulletin No.
Indigenous Potential meets Economic Opportunity Discussion Paper
Topical Issue 5 / 2007
March 2007 -
A submission by CAEPR researchers to DEWR's 'Indigenous Potential meets Economic Opportunity' CDEP Discussion Paper, November 2006.
The Indigenous hybrid economy: A realistic sustainable option for remote communities?
Topical Issue 2 / 2006
April 2006 - The Hybrid Economy
'The Indigenous hybrid economy: A realistic sustainable option for remote communities?' by Jon Altman. Paper presented to the Australian Fabian Society, Melbourne, 26 October 2005.
An informal discussion of the new arrangements and some current debates in Indigenous affairs, and of the need to recognise the hybrid nature of the remote Indigenous economy.
Economic Development and Indigenous Australia: Contestations over Property, Institutions and Ideology?
Topical Issue 9 / 2004
June 2004 - Indigenous Economic Development
'Economic Development and Indigenous Australia: Contestations over Property, Institutions and Ideology?' by Jon Altman.
A paper presented by Professor Jon Altman at the 48th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in Melbourne, 11 February 2004.
Taming the social capital Hydra? Indigenous poverty, social capital theory and measurement
Topical Issue 8 / 2004
May 2004 - Taming the Social Capital Hydra
'Taming the social capital Hydra? Indigenous poverty, social capital theory and measurement' by Boyd Hunter.
