Will Sanders updates earlier work on participation and representation in ATSIC elections, adding analysis of the fifth round of ATSIC elections held in 2002. Will argues that overall voter turnout is reasonable given the voluntary nature of ATSIC elections. He discerns a distinctive geography of both voter turnout and candidate interest, which are higher in...

In this report Lesley Cooper and Mary Morris introduce a research project which will investigate residential dislocation and housing instability by examining pathways taken by indigenous women and children between homelessness and sustainable tenancy.

In this report introduce an analysis of the impact of state public housing regeneration projects on Indigenous households in urban communities in Western Australia. Authors: Roz Walker, John Ballard, Cheryle Taylor and Jean Hillier

In this paper Jon Altman and Peter Whitehead explore how Indigenous community-based natural resource management can generate both conservation benefit and economic development opportunity.

Much of the symbolic and rights aspects of the reconciliation process are being undertaken at the state, local and community level, rather than federally. Yet the commitment of federal government is vital. Without it, argue Sean Brennan, Vanessa Bosnjak and George Williams, the reconciliation process will not encompass the national acknowledgment of Indigenous peoples or...