This paper examines changes in Indigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘resource curse’ for Indigenous communities and the Australian population at large.

This paper examines changes in the nature of labour market outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

The rate of disability in the Indigenous population is substantially higher than for the Australian population as a whole. Despite the relatively high rates of disability experienced by the Indigenous population, there is surprisingly little research which provides basic descriptive information on where those Indigenous Australians with a disability live and what their demographic characteristics...

The rate of disability in the Indigenous population is substantially higher than the rate for the Australian population as a whole. Despite the relatively high rates of disability experienced by the Indigenous population there has been surprisingly little research in this area to date.

This paper shows that failure to clearly focus on employment beyond Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) can lead to misleading conclusions about employment growth and the effectiveness of government policy aimed at increasing non-CDEP employment.