The Community Development Employment Projects scheme is an example of a program that combines community development and labour market program elements. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who are employed outside of CDEP, unemployed, and not-in-the-labour-force (NILF) in 2008, and the extent to...

This study aims to further explore this priority capacity building issue to provide insight to the community engagement practices and challenges of rural-remote and Indigenous local government in Australia for the purpose of identifying some practical options for supporting this cohort of councils to help them improve their engagement. The study explored: What community engagement...

This paper describes the nature of community development employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who are employed outside of CDEP, unemployed, and not-in-the-labour-force (NILF) in 2008, and the extent...

This book tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. This first history of Aboriginal-white interaction on the Victorian goldfields offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history — the gold story. It describes how Aboriginal people...

First published in 1997, Face the Facts has become a permanent feature of the Australian Human Rights Commission's, contribution to informed factual public debate about race, Indigenous peoples and cultural diversity in Australia. This edition of Face the Facts reflects the continued demand for accurate and easy to understand information about Indigenous peoples, migrants, refugees...