This book addresses the continuing and pressing need for robust debate to understand how meaningful improvement in Indigenous outcomes might be achieved. Indigenous policy is a complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Council of Australian Governments ‘closing the gaps’ agenda for addressing Indigenous disadvantage in Australia now...

Indigenous policy is a complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Council of Australian Governments ‘closing the gaps’ agenda for addressing Indigenous disadvantage in Australia now includes six targets with well defined and measurable outcomes for policy action. In this context there is a continuing and pressing need...

Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women’s organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been buffeted by national political upheavals and changing global and regional directions in development policy-making. This book documents how women activists have understood and responded...

In 1970 a small group of physicists at the Australian National University decided to veer away from the accepted and expected directions in energy research and pursued the emerging discipline of solar energy. Over the next decade ANU joined a small cluster of research institutions, including the CSIRO, UNSW and the University of Sydney, to...

This report finds that the media, trade unions and political parties top the list of institutions the public perceives to be the most corrupt. The report presents the results of the latest ANUpoll, which measured public confidence in government and institutions, perceptions and experiences of corruption and the ethical conduct of elected representatives, as well...