This preliminary research report by Janet Hunt and Diane Smith is based on the first year of fieldwork conducted by the Indigenous Community Governance Project. The Project is exploring the nature of Indigenous community governance in diverse contexts and locations across Australia through a series of diverse case studies—to understand what works, what doesn’t work...

While exceptionally mobile by Australian standards, Aboriginal households in Dajarra, Alpurrurulam and Mt Isa are relatively stable in their customary attachment to their home community, local bush country, cultutal region and regional centre. According to this AHURI Research and Policy Bulletin, there is a need to balance the local provision of housing and other services...

Andrew Macintosh challenges one of the central arguments in the federal government?s case for reforming cross-media ownership laws ? that new media sources, particularly the internet, will guarantee pluralism in Australian media. He shows that as little as one per cent of Australians rely on alternative media providers as their main source of news and...

Nicholas Biddle and Boyd Hunter examine patterns of migration and factors associated with both the decision to move and the choice of destination. The results suggest that Indigenous Australians are less responsive to local economic factors than other Australians, and social and cultural factors appear to play a particularly significant role in their decision making.

In late 2005 Bill Gray and Will Sanders interviewed eleven members of the Commonwealth government’s Secretaries Group on Indigenous Affairs about their experiences of the new arrangements in Indigenous affairs since July 2004. This paper reports their findings on issues ranging from the Ministerial Taskforce and the National Indigenous Council to Indigenous Coordination Centres and...