2004
Senate Inquiry into Poverty And Financial Hardship in Australia
Topical Issue 2 / 2004
January 2004 - Senate Inquiry into Poverty And Financial Hardship in Australia
Submission by CAEPR researchers Jon Altman, Boyd Hunter and Melissa Johns to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Poverty and Financial Hardship in Australia, 18 September 2003. The document contains a brief literature review of key CAEPR publications on Indigenous poverty, and a listing of other relevant publications on Indigenous Australian socioeconomic status.
Indigenous Australians in the Contemporary Labour Market
Topical Issue 3 / 2004
January 2004 - Indigenous Australians in the Contemporary Labour Market
This ABS monograph by CAEPR researcher Boyd Hunter is published under the Australian Census Analytic Program series. It both extends the understanding of important socioeconomic trends since 1971 and demonstrates the somewhat under-utilised power of census data to illuminate the social and policy agenda for Indigenous Australians.
Careers and aspirations: Young Torres Strait Islanders, 1999-2003
Discussion Paper 259 / 2004
Abstract:
Material on the careers and aspirations of Indigenous young people is limited. This paper presents some such material from Torres Strait. In 1999, 105 Indigenous people aged between 15 and 24 years were interviewed about their aspirations. A proportion of these people were reinterviewed in 2003 and this paper presents the results.
Indigenous people in the Alice Springs town camps: The 2001 Census data
Discussion Paper 260 / 2004
Abstract:
This paper analyses 2001 Census data relating to Indigenous people living in the Alice Springs town camps as compared to three other population groups: Indigenous people in the rest of Alice Springs, non-Indigenous people in Alice Springs and Indigenous people living in the outlying communities of the region around Alice Springs. The paper builds on earlier work which observed and reported on the collection of the 2001 Census in the Alice Springs town camps.
Taming the social capital Hydra? Indigenous poverty, social capital theory and measurement
Discussion Paper 261 / 2004
Abstract:
The second labour of Heracles, the epic struggle with the Hydra, is used in this paper as a metaphor for the difficulties that may be encountered in analysing and measuring social capital. In Greek mythology, the Hydra ‘had a prodigious dog-like body, and eight or nine snaky heads, one of them immortal’. In a sense, social capital is the intellectual equivalent of the Hydra in that it is conceptualised in many different ways.
Thinking about Indigenous Community Governance
Discussion Paper 262 / 2004
Abstract:
This document brings together four papers on Indigenous community governance which were written as verbal presentations for conferences, seminars and workshops between 2000 and 2003. They argue, from different starting points in response to conference and workshop themes, that Indigenous community governance is as much about process as about structures and that dispersed governance has benefits as well as costs. In doing so they challenge some common assumptions of would-be reformers of Indigenous community governance.
Patterns of Indigenous job search activity
Discussion Paper 263 / 2004
Abstract:
There have been a number of labour market programs that have attempted to increase rates of employment of Indigenous Australians by influencing job search behaviour. However, remarkably little is known about the job search behaviour of Indigenous job seekers or how this compares with the job search behaviour of other job seekers. This paper provides the first ever baseline of data on the job search behaviour of Indigenous job seekers and how it compares to the job search of non-Indigenous job seekers.
Indigenous people in the Murray–Darling Basin: A statistical profile
Discussion Paper 264 / 2004
Abstract:
Within the framework of the Council for Australian Governments (COAG) requirements for benchmarking Indigenous disadvantage and reporting on strategies and performance towards redress, the Murray–Darling Basin Ministerial Council has moved to establish the Murray–Darling Basin Indigenous Action Plan.
From Gove to Governance: Reshaping Indigenous Governance in the Northern Territory
Discussion Paper 265 / 2004
Abstract:
This paper attempts to identify the key challenges facing Indigenous people and governments in reshaping the architecture of Indigenous governance in the Territory, and considers some strategic options for a way forward. First, a brief historical background is provided to Indigenous governance and local government in the Northern Territory. It examines why the issue of Indigenous governance has become a focus for greater policy and public attention recently, and highlights the implications of historical and current policy changes for future governance arrangements.
Indigenous socioeconomic change 1971–2001: A historical perspective
Discussion Paper 266 / 2004
Abstract:
This paper examines trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using four Censuses of Population and Housing carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. It reports on outcomes for Indigenous Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and the ratios between the two.
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