2008
Why the Northern Territory Government needs to support Outstations/Homelands in the Aboriginal, Northern Territory and National Interest
Topical Issue 17 / 2008
December 2008 - The Importance of Supporting Outstations
Why the Northern Territory Government needs to support Outstations/Homelands in the Aboriginal, Northern Territory and National Interest — Submission to the Northern Territory Government Outstation Policy Discussion Paper.
[16 December 2008]
Submission to the Australian Government's 'Increasing Indigenous Employment Opportunity' Discussion Paper
Topical Issue 16 / 2008
December 2008 - CDEP Past & 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.
[02 December 2008]
Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport on Natural Resource Management and Conservation Challenges
Topical Issue 15 / 2008
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.
[01 December 2008]
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
Topical Issue 13 / 2008
November 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.
[28 November 2008]
Submission to "Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity – A discussion paper on the future of the CDEP and Indigenous Employment Programs"
Topical Issue 14 / 2008
November 2008 - CDEP Futures
'Submission to "Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity – A discussion paper on the future of the CDEP and Indigenous Employment Programs"', noting the current policy attempt to redefine CDEP as a labour market program rather than as an expression of self determination - a community development program.
[28 November 2008]
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.
On Noel Pearson
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
There can be no doubt that Noel Pearson is not only a national leader in policy development, he is also a controversial figure who manages to split the interested public, academia, journalists and politicians into candid supporters or staunch critics. To research such a polarising personality's work and personal background is particularly challenging.
Invisible to the state: Kinship and the Yolngu moral order
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
In the Yolngu-matha languages of north-east Arnhem land, the character trait rendered in English as 'self-centered' or 'selfish' is translated by gurrutu-miriw, literally 'kin-lacking' - acting as if one had no kin. Kin-based obligations structure the Yolngu moral order: everyone is classified as kin, and how one ought to behave to others is framed in terms of one's kin relationship to them.
Permits, private property, and cultural survival
Topical Issue 12 / 2008
October 2008 - The Permit System
Permits, private property, and cultural survival', an opinion piece exploring federal attempts to remove the permit system in the Northern Territory, first published in The Age Online on 10 October 2008.
[23 October 2008]
Complexity in Aboriginal political culture and implications for government policy
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
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.
