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The papers in this volume, which are a selection of papers presented at an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australian workshop in March 1991, examine the employment status of Australian Aborigines and assess the prospects of meeting the target of Aboriginal employment equity by the year 2000 set by the Federal Government's Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP).

Published for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1991.

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The papers in this volume were all precirculated at the workshop 'A National Survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations: Problems and Prospects'. The main impetus for the workshop was a recommendation for a national survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the National Report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. This recommendation was endorsed and financed by the Federal Government in March 1992.

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Indigenous Australians in the Economy: Abstracts of Research 1991-92 is an annotated bibliography produced at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra. It presents abstracts of policy-relevant published research for the years 1992 and 1992 with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander economic development and labour market issues. Topics covered include employment, land tenure, government policies and programs, mining, demographic trends, tourism and subsistence.

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The Relative Economic Status of Indigenous Australians, 1986-91, by John Taylor, is a CAEPR contribution to the mid-term review of the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP). A detailed analysis of 1986 and 1991 Census data was conducted to ascertain the degree to which AEDP objectives of employment and income equality have been achieved. The analysis compares changes in the economic status of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders separately with that of other Australians, using a range of social indicators at the national level, disaggregated by section-of-State.

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Regional Change in the Economic Status of Indigenous Australians, 1986-91 is the second of several CAEPR contributions to the 1993 review of the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP). The work was commissioned by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training to assess the labour market impact of the AEDP.

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The High Court's recognition of native title in the Mabo judgements of June 1992 was a major development in Australian law and history. The Commonwealth Government sought to respond to that development and by the latter half of 1993 was attempting to pass native title legislation. The papers collected here explore both the origins and institutional implications of the recognition of native title. The first paper explores the local political and cultural origins of the Mabo case in the Murray Islands of the Torres Strait.

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This monograph presents a rigorous quantitative assessment, against normative criteria, of the housing requirements of Indigenous people, and in doing so makes an important contribution to knowledge about the interrelationship between environmental health and economic status. This work provides, for the first time, national estimates of the housing need of Indigenous Australians, the regional variations between States and Territories and the 36 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission regional councils.

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This monograph summaries of policy-relevant published research on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander economic development and labour market issues. Topics covered include employment, land tenure, government policies and programs, mining, demographic trends, tourism, and subsistence. The monograph updates Indigenous Australians in the Economy: Abstracts of Research, 1991-92.

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OUT OF PRINT

Papers from a session on 'The Anthropology of Native Title Claims: Emerging Research Issues' convened at the Australian Anthropological Society Conference, 27-29 September 1995, University of Adelaide. The call for the session arose from a workshop held early in 1995 in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies to discuss aspects of anthropological practice under the Native Title Act 1993.

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The workshop 'Statistical needs for effective Indigenous policy: findings from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey', on which this monograph is based, was convened by CAEPR for a variety of reasons. It has been over four years since in April 1992 an earlier workshop 'A National Survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations: Problems and Prospects' had been co-convened by CAEPR and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.