Indigenous
Broad subject area
Guide
Aboriginal deaths in custody: the Royal Commission and its records, 1987–97
This guide is the only comprehensive listing of the huge volume of records created by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The records include individual case files, submissions, research reports, the papers of the Commissioners and staff, the records of legal counsel, and the Commission's administrative records.
Report
Towards an Indigenous order of Australian government: Rethinking self-determination as Indigenous affairs policy
The ultimate strength of Indigenous peoples' political claims lies in their being seen as quite different from those other interest groups. Following the example of Canada, Will Sanders looks at the idea of Indigenous peoples' organisations and their processes of representation as constituting an Indigenous order of Australian government. It is argued that this is...
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Urban CDEPs as Indigenous employment centres
In May 2001, the Federal Government announced a new policy framework, Australians Working Together, in response to the McClure Reference Group Report on Welfare Reform. Mark Champion, an Indigenous project officer for ATSIC's Queanbeyan Regional Office, outlines the initiatives aimed at encouraging 'urban' Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) schemes to take on the additional role...
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Sustainable development options on Aboriginal land: the hybrid economy in the twenty-first century
In collaboration with biological scientists at Northern Territory University and Bawinaga Aboriginal Corporation in central Arnhem Land, Jon Altman aims to generate creative ideas about development futures for Aboriginal people living on Aboriginal land. By broadening the notion of economy and development to include the customary economy, the hybrid economy model includes important Indigenous contributions...
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HIV Futures II: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with HIV
This report provides details about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with HIV who filled in and returned questionnaires as part of the HIV Futures II survey. The HIV Futures II survey was conducted by the Living with HIV research program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University...