Estimating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fertility from census data
K. Gaminiratne In the absence of routine vital statistics for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, this study attempts to estimate fertility for each group separately, using data on...
View ArticleEstimating Northern Territory Government program expenditure for Aboriginal...
Diane Smith There are currently no administrative mechanisms whereby data relating to State expenditure on programs for Aboriginal people are disaggregated. This paper attempts to assess the existing...
View ArticleAn analysis of the Aboriginal component of Commonwealth fiscal flows to the...
Diane Smith This paper focuses on the Northern Territory (NT) as a case study for the examination of Commonwealth/State financial relations in the area of Aboriginal affairs. The paper considers in...
View ArticleSurvey or census? Estimation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing...
John Taylor A consultancy paper outlining the technical options for assessing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing need in large urban centres followed from discussions relating to the...
View ArticlePolitical spoils or political largesse? Regional development in northern...
Colin Scott This paper examines regional development in northern Quebec, Canada, with a focus on the James Bay Cree, and makes some preliminary comparisons with the Australian Aboriginal people in the...
View ArticleAborigines, tourism and sustainable development
Jon Altman Julie Finlayson An issues paper on 'Aborigines and Tourism' was commissioned by the Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) Tourism Working Group on 3 June 1991. It followed a verbal...
View ArticlePatterns and trends in the spatial diffusion of the Torres Strait Islander...
John Taylor Bill Arthur Until World War 2, Torres Strait Islanders were restricted in their distribution to the Torres Strait. Since that time, migration to the Australian mainland has contributed to...
View ArticleFirst counts, 1991 Census: a comment on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
K. Gaminiratne Due to a lack of accurate data on the size, distribution and trends in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in different geographic regions, past census data cannot be...
View ArticleThe evaluation of labour market programs: some issues for Aboriginal policy...
Anne Daly This paper considers some of the major issues involved in evaluating labour market programs for Aboriginal people in the light of the extensive United States (US) literature on the topic....
View ArticleIndustry segregation among employed Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
John Taylor This paper describes the detailed industry composition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce and measures the extent to which it differs from that of the rest of the...
View ArticleDo fluctuations in the Australian macroeconomy influence Aboriginal...
Jon Altman Anne Daly There is considerable evidence that the factors influencing Aboriginal employment differ from those affecting the general Australian population. This paper considers further...
View ArticleEstablishing trends in ATSIC regional council populations using census data:...
Jon Altman K. Gaminiratne Section 94(1) of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 1989 requires regional councils to 'formulate and revise from time to time a regional plan for improving the...
View ArticleEstimating the reliance of Aboriginal Australians on welfare: Some policy...
Jon Altman Diane Smith The Aboriginal Employment Development Policy has three broad aims: employment, income and welfare dependency equality between Aboriginal and other Australians by the year 2000....
View ArticleIdeology, Evidence and Competing Principles in Australian Indigenous Affairs:...
William Sanders This paper tracks the recent rise of ideology and evidence discourse as a way of describing good and bad Indigenous affairs policy. Expressing dissatisfaction with this discourse, it...
View ArticleLessons from a History of Beer Canteens and Licensed Clubs in Indigenous...
Maggie Brady The idea that alcoholic drinks should be made available in licensed canteens or clubs in discrete Aboriginal communities has a contentious history in Australian public policy. This...
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