In 2009, the Australian Feral Camel Management Project was established with support from the Australian Government to manage the impacts of feral camels on: • nominated environmental sites, which are generally rangelands water sources and surrounding vegetation (Figure 2) • pastoral vegetation and therefore soil quality. Despite a focus on the above forms of impact...

Common property (communal land) is often viewed negatively with some claiming that communal land ownership and the absence of private property rights more generally have been insurmountable barriers to Indigenous enterprise. This paper provides a brief overview of common property resources and explores how Aboriginal common property is being used by some Aboriginal groups to...

The vast potential of northern Australia is being held back by serious bottlenecks in infrastructure and human capital, but strategies for sustainable economic and population growth need to shift beyond the simple solutions and polarised debate of the past 50 years. This is one of the key findings of this paper released by the Regional...

CAEPR has a tradition of producing indices of Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes to support the work of Indigenous peoples and organisations in advocating for improved resources based on relative need, as well as of governments in targeting services where they will have the greatest impact on the Indigenous population. The aim of this paper is to...

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