Jon Altman

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Indigenous cultural and natural resource management futures

This paper has a specific focus on lessons that the authors have learnt from working with Indigenous peoples engaged in cultural and natural resource management projects in northern Australia and New South Wales

Wild rivers and Indigenous economic development in Queensland

The paper discusses Indigenous economic development in the context of the proposed legislation, Indigenous property rights, and the Federal Government's draft Indigenous Economic Development Strategy

Alternate development for Indigenous territories of difference

Altman argues that the Indigenous lands can be conceptualised as a place where different ways of thinking about land and resources might become increasingly dominant as an alternate form of development

Equitable treatment of native title compensation and benefits

A version of this Topical Issue was provided as a submission to the Australian Government’s discussion paper Leading Practice Agreements: Maximizing Outcomes from Native Title Benefits, released on 3 July 2010

Native title and taxation reform

This paper argues that the Australian Government's consultation paper 'Native Title, Indigenous Economic Development and Tax', canvassed many options for taxation reforms but barely addressed Indigenous economic development

Income management and the rights of Indigenous Australians to equity

This paper examines the changing policy rationales for income management in prescribed Indigenous communities

Wild rivers and informed consent on Cape York

Were the Wild Rivers Bill passed into law we would see a fundamental change in the current workings of land rights and native title laws in Australia

Power, culture, economy: Indigenous Australians and mining

While mining developments in regional and remote Australia may be the major­ contributors to local economic development, Indigenous communities have gained only limited long-term economic benefits from mining activity

Commercial water and Indigenous Australians: a scoping study of licence allocations

The empirical research reported here documents actual allocations of water licences and entitlements to identified Indigenous users on a state-by-state jurisdictional basis

The untimely abolition of the Community Development Employment Program

This paper focuses on proposed changes to the Social Security Act 1991 that would facilitate changes to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme, and examines the serious potential consequences of abolishing CDEP

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