2007
Options for Warlpiri Education and Training
Topical Issue 8 / 2007
June 2007 -
Final Report to the Warlpiri Education and Training Trust Advisory Committee: Options for Education and Training, by R.G. Schwab, 15 September 2006. A comprehensive report exploring a variety of options for remote education and training. Edited web version.
Changes to CDEP under DEWR: Policy substance and the new contractualism
Topical Issue 6 / 2007
May 2007 -
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an Indigenous 'workfare' program which has existed since 1977. In 2004, with the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), CDEP became a responsibility of the Commonwealth Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR). Since early 2005, DEWR has been engaged in a reform process which has led to some significant changes to CDEP. This article looks at those changes under two headings; policy substance and the new contractualism. It begins with a little more history.
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.
Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector
Topical Issue 4 / 2007
March 2007 -
A submission by Professor Jon Altman to the Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee's Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector.
Sustainable governance for small desert settlements
Topical Issue 2 / 2007
March 2007 -
'Sustainable governance for small desert settlements: Combining single settlement localism and multi-settlement regionalism', a paper presented to the Desert Knowledge Symposium & Business Showcase, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, 1-3 November 2006.
Attempting to Silence the Social Sciences
Topical Issue 1 / 2007
March 2007 -
In a recent book, Silencing Dissent: How the Australian government is controlling public opinion and stifling debate, edited by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2007) brief mention was made of CAEPR. In his chapter on universities, Professor Stuart Macintyre used CAEPR as one example of attempts by the government of the day to restrict academic freedom (pp 51-52).
The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence
Research Monograph 27 / 2007
ISBN 9781921313516 (Print Version)
ISBN 9781921313523 (Online Version)
Abstract:
The papers in this collection reflect on the various social effects of native title. In particular, the authors consider the ways in which the implementation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), and the native title process for which this Act legislates, allow for the recognition and translation of Aboriginal law and custom, and facilitate particular kinds of coexistence between Aboriginal title holders and other Australians.
Agency, contingency and census process: Observations of the 2006 Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in remote Aboriginal Australia
Research Monograph 28 / 2007
ISBN 9781921313585 (Print Version)
ISBN 9781921313592 (Online Version)
Abstract:
The Indigenous Enumeration Strategy (IES) of the Australian National Census of Population and Housing has evolved over the years in response to the perceived ‘difference’ of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. Its defining characteristics are the use of locally recruited, mostly Indigenous collector interviewers, and the administration of a modified collection instrument in discrete Indigenous communities, mostly in remote Australia.
The environmental significance of the Indigenous estate: Natural resource management as economic development in remote Australia
Discussion Paper 286 / 2007
Abstract:
This discussion paper explores the geography of the Indigenous estate, its environmental significance, and some of the innovative approaches adopted by Indigenous landholders to protect the natural and cultural values of their land. A number of maps are used to explore the environmental significance of the Indigenous estate. These maps indicate that the Indigenous estate—making up 20 per cent of the Australian land mass—covers vast areas of relatively intact land. The Indigenous estate contains some of the highest conservation priority lands in Australia.
Indigenous Community Governance Project: Year two research findings
Working Paper 36 / 2007
ISSN 1442 3871
ISBN 0 7315 4935 X
Abstract:
This is the second research report by the Indigenous Community Governance Project (ICGP). The ICGP is exploring the nature of Indigenous community governance in Australia—to understand what works, what doesn’t work, and why. The first report, based on 2005 fieldwork, was published as CAEPR Working Paper No. 31/2006.
This report brings together findings from the fieldwork conducted during 2006, based on evidence drawn from case studies of Indigenous governance in action within differing community, geographical, cultural and political settings across the nation.
