The town of Port Hedland is a town of many contrasts, with high incomes and a strong resource sector on the one hand, abject poverty, disadvantage and social problems on the other. Although Indigenous people have been major contributors to the culture, diversity and development of the region, they have generally failed to share equitably...

This Discussion Paper examines the concepts of 'governance', 'good governance' and 'sustainable development' in the context of Australian Indigenous communities and regions. It explores the hypothesis that there is vital link between governance and sustainable development. The first half of the paper defines the key concepts and reviews the existing barriers facing Indigenous communities and...

Review of recent development in the field of econometrics and summative program evaluation. A central feature of recent developments is the attempt to allow for program impacts that vary across individuals. This contrasts with earlier econometric approaches which implicitly assumed a homogenous treatment effect.

This e-Brief covers many of the developments that have occurred since the Kyoto meeting to the near finalisation of all outstanding issues at the COP7 meeting at Marrakesh in late 2001. It now appears that the required threshold number of countries willing to ratify the Protocol to allow it to come into effect has been...

Margo Huxley examines the strategies and resources mobilised in the defence of urban areas, and looks at the way in which the Melbourne resident action group, Save Our Suburbs, was able to subsume different sources of conflict under the banner of a particular representation of "a home" in "the suburbs" of "Melbourne" - representations which...