This discussion paper examines data from government services and from the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey relating to the Indigenous population of New South Wales, to augment outputs from the 2001 Census. These data reveal a population that has barely gained in recent times against key indicators of relative economic progress...

Diane Smith sets out the framework for the Indigenous Community Governance research project on Understanding, Building and Sustaining Effective Governance in Rural, Remote and Urban Indigenous Communities, and discusses issues inherent in participatory research, and the dissemination and application of research findings within Indigenous and policy arenas. The project is being undertaken at the Centre...

'Capacity development' has become a key concept in international development in recent years. Janet Hunt clarifies aspects of the term and draws on recent research and experience to draw out key international lessons, especially in relation to the 'enabling environment'. She raises questions about the implications of international development experience for thinking about capacity development...

There has been escalating media coverage of the view that Indigenous economic disadvantage and housing and infrastructure shortages are linked to communal title to land resulting from land rights and native title. Jon Altman, Craig Linkhorn and Jennifer Clarke challenge the view that privatising or individuating this land might generate better economic and social outcomes...

Will Sanders argues that the housing tenure system in more densely settled Australia, dominated by home ownership, does not fully penetrate to remote areas for either Indigenous or other households. He suggests that the policy goal of promoting home ownership in remote Aboriginal communities is largely unrealistic, given the underlying income and employment status of...