This paper argues that the factors underlying Indigenous employment should be examined separately for areas where the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is relatively prominent.

This report from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research to the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business, describes the strengths and limitations of the data collected in the Longitudinal Survey of Indigenous Job Seekers, and provides an overview of how Indigenous labour market behaviour changes over time. The survey involved interviewing 2,500...

This paper focuses on how competition and consumer protection issues might be relevant and apply to the Indigenous visual arts and crafts industry. The structure of the industry is complex: the majority of producers reside in remote localities; there are a variety of functional levels; the industry encompasses both the 'fine' and 'tourist' art markets...

Some key factors underlying the process of mobility in Indigenous households include access to resources ('demand sharing'), availability and quality of housing, overcrowding, conflict, the impact of death, and 'visiting' patterns. The experience of CAEPR's community-level household survey suggests the need for a multi-dimensional, nested set of definitions of 'household'. Minimally, 'household' should be defined...

Workplaces with Indigenous employees are qualitatively different from other workplaces because such workplaces use industrial relations practices consistent with encouraging greater cultural diversity within the firm. Whether this results from proactive measures on the part of management, or whether they result as a strategic initiative to solve existing problems is not clear.