Reconciling public accountability and Aboriginal...
William Sanders Since the early 1970s Commonwealth Governments have been pursuing policies of self-determination/self-management in relation to Aborigines. In 1987, the Hawke Government announced its...
View ArticleEducation and employment for young Indigenous Australians, 1986 to 1991
Anne Daly The purpose of this paper is to present evidence on the educational and labour market status of young Indigenous Australians as reported in the 1991 Census, to build on similar work relating...
View ArticleChange in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population distribution, 1986-91
K. Gaminiratne Reliable estimation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growth rates has not been possible with past census data. Because substantial advancement in census field...
View ArticleWork and welfare for Indigenous Australians
Anne Daly Anne Hawke An issue frequently raised in the literature on the economic status of Aboriginal people is the importance of welfare transfers as a source of income, yet there is very little...
View ArticleCompensating Indigenous Australian 'losers': a community-oriented approach...
Jon Altman Diane Smith The extent to which social policy should foster economic adaptation and compensate the 'losers' from economic forces is of growing concern to policy makers in the 1990s. From an...
View ArticleRethinking the fundamentals of social policy towards Indigenous Australians:...
William Sanders Social policy towards Indigenous Australians was fundamentally rethought in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The result is the current involvement in this policy area of large numbers...
View ArticleIndigenous Australians and the labour market: issues for the union movement...
Jon Altman Anne Hawke The Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP) aims to achieve economic equality between Indigenous and other Australians by the year 2000 via three goals: employment...
View ArticleDetermining the labour force status of Aboriginal people using a multinomial...
Anne Daly Bill Allen Louise Aufflick Ed Bosworth Martin Caruso It is well documented that Aboriginal people are less likely to be in employment and more likely to be unemployed or not in the labour...
View ArticleThe position of older Aboriginal people in the labour market
Anne Daly The focus of this paper is on the position of Aboriginal people over the age of 50 years in the labour market, as recorded in the 1986 Population Census. This group accounted for a smaller...
View ArticleThe fiscal equalisation model: options for ATSIC's future funding policy and...
Diane Smith The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) currently lacks integrated policy guidelines for its distribution of funds at regional, state and national levels. Smith (1993)...
View ArticleATSIC's mechanisms for resource allocation: current policy and practice
Diane Smith This paper is the first of two focusing on resource allocation policy and practice in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). The current approach to the distribution...
View ArticleAboriginal socioeconomic change in the Northern Territory, 1986-1991
John Taylor The formation and evaluation of Aboriginal economic policy is heavily dependent upon data from the five-yearly census of population to establish the relative economic standing of...
View ArticleSelf-employment amongst Aboriginal people
Anne Daly Self-employment has been regarded as an important avenue for the social and economic advancement of some disadvantaged groups such as migrants. As measured by the census it has, however,...
View ArticleEducation and employment for young Aborigines
Anne Daly The position of young Aboriginal people in the labour market and the education system has been of great concern to policy-makers. The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, for...
View ArticleIndigenous Australians in the National Tourism Strategy: impact,...
Jon Altman The key aim of this paper is to inject a degree of policy and economic realism into discussions about Aboriginal involvement in tourism. There is a growing policy impetus for an increased...
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