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Nicholas Biddle

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The geography and demography of Indigenous migration: Insights for policy and planning

The aim of this paper is to consider a number of related aspects of Indigenous migration including the propensity to move, population redistribution, migration patterns and flows, urbanisation and intra-urban migration

Indigenous temporary mobility: An analysis of the 2006 Census snapshot

This paper presents an analysis of census data as it relates to Indigenous temporary mobility and analyse the spatial and demographic complexities that underwrite them

Planning for growth: Indigenous population projections, 2006-31

Policy development in Indigenous affairs often proceeds with dated estimates of population and with little understanding of the likely impact of changing demographic parameters on future Indigenous population size and composition

Indigenous Population Projections, 2006-31

This paper models the national and regional population impacts of a continuation of existing mortality and fertility regimes compared to a situation where these converge

Location and segregation: The distribution of the Indigenous population across Australia's urban centres

This paper focuses on which cities and large towns Indigenous Australians live in, how the Indigenous population is distributed by neighbourhood within these cities and towns, and what the characteristics of the neighbourhoods are in which Indigenous Australians are concentrated

Towards a gender-related index for Indigenous Australians

There has been extensive research into the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes but very little of this has adopted a gender perspective

The scale and composition of Indigenous housing need, 2001–06

This paper sets out to document the scale of Indigenous housing need as recorded in the most recent (2006)
Census at a regional level and how this level of need changed between 2001 and 2006

Indigenous participation in regional labour markets, 2001-06

This paper examines the extent to which Indigenous Australians have shared in the large expansion of the Australian workforce that is revealed by a comparison of 2001 and 2006 census results

How realistic are the prospects for 'closing the gaps' in socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians?

‘Practical reconciliation’ and more recently ‘closing the gaps’ have been put forward as frameworks on which to base and then evaluate policies to address Indigenous disadvantage

A regional analysis of Indigenous participation in the Western Australian labour market

This paper focuses on recent change in the fortunes of Indigenous people in the labour market and analyses these alongside changes in other population, social and economic outcomes

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