2000
Surveying mobile populations: Lessons from recent longitudinal surveys of Indigenous Australians
Discussion Paper 203 / 2000
Abstract:
Geographically mobile populations are notoriously difficult to survey, especially in a cross-cultural context. In broad terms, it is difficult to ensure that respondents are representative of the underlying population and that data obtained are relevant to them. At a practical level, the problem can be as basic as not having any well-formed notion of what defines a household. Consequently, the resulting analysis of households is at best imprecise and, at worst, conceptually confused.
Social exclusion, social capital, and Indigenous Australians: Measuring the social costs of unemployment
Discussion Paper 204 / 2000
Abstract:
In a purely economic sense, unemployment in the Australian community is extremely costly. The costs of unemployment will be particularly pronounced if its social, psychological, and economic impacts are concentrated among long-term unemployed and if its effects spill over onto other family or community members. This paper analyses evidence from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey (NATSIS) to illustrate the point that such effects are potentially very large in Indigenous households with a substantial concentration of unemployed residents.
Job-searching and careers: Young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999
Discussion Paper 205 / 2000
Abstract:
The principal aim of this paper was to examine the strategies young people adopt to further their careers. Young people in Torres Strait are likely to use informal strategies when searching for jobs or training; these include approaching employers and trainers directly or using the contacts of family or friends. They are less likely to use the formal job-search facilities of Centrelink and Job Network.
Career aspirations and orientation to work: Young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999
Discussion Paper 206 / 2000
Abstract:
The principal aim of this paper was to determine what views young Torres Strait Islanders had about their careers and to assess their orientation or approach to work. Young Torres Strait Islanders often express their view of their future in terms of their work. However, as noted elsewhere in the study, commitments to career may have to be balanced with those to family.
Education, training and careers: Young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999
Discussion Paper 207 / 2000
Abstract:
The principal aim of this paper was to determine what role, if any, young Torres Strait Islanders see education and training playing in their future careers.
A case study of the Bungala CDEP: Economic and social impacts
Discussion Paper 208 / 2000
Abstract:
The economic and social context of Port Augusta
This section focuses on the economic and social context in which Bungala Aboriginal Corporation operates. A description of the social and historical context of Indigenous people in Port Augusta is provided with particular attention paid to the local economy and the labour force status of Indigenous people.
The CDEP in town and country Arnhem Land: Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
Discussion Paper 209 / 2000
Abstract:
This Discussion Paper presents the findings of research undertaken in 2000 on the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme administered by the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (BAC). BAC is located in the township of Maningrida in central Arnhem Land, and the CDEP scheme has participants residing both in Maningrida township and at outstations in the hinterland. A feature of the research is the comparative focus on 'town' and 'country'.
'If it wasn't for CDEP': A case study of Worn Gundidj CDEP, Victoria
Discussion Paper 210 / 2000
Abstract:
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) is a scheme where working-age Indigenous people forgo their welfare payments to take up employment in their local Aboriginal community organisation. The variations on this basic outline are many, ranging from the provision of full-time work fulfilling private contracts, to CDEP as an income support mechanism where participants receive the same remuneration as they would on welfare.
Indigenous Familes and the Welfare System: Two Community Case Studies
Research Monograph 17 / 2000
ISSN 1036 6962
ISBN 0 7315 5101 0 (Print Version)
Abstract:
Given their historic and ongoing position of economic disadvantage, many Indigenous families have a long-term dependency on welfare, and their well being will continue to be a critical challenge for government and Indigenous organisations. This monograph presents data from the first year of a longitudinal field-based research project carried out in two Indigenous communities Kuranda in rural north Queensland, and Yeundumu in remote Central Australia.
Ngukurr at the Millennium: A Baseline Profile for Social Impact Planning in South-East Arnhem Land
Research Monograph 18 / 2000
ISSN 1036-6962
ISBN 0 7135 5102 8 (Print Version)
Abstract:
Rapid change arising from large-scale development projects can place severe strain on the physical infrastructure and social fabric of affected communities, as well as providing opportunities for betterment. The remote Aboriginal town of Ngukurr, together with its satellite outstations in the south-east Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory, is likely to experience such change as a result of mineral exploration activity currently being instigated by Rio Tinto.
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