In search of an outstations policy for Indigenous Australians (original) (raw)
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1999
and ANU. CAEPR's principal objective is to undertake high quality independent research that will assist in furthering the social and economic development and empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. CAEPR's mission is to be a world-class centre undertaking research on indigenous economic development issues that combine academic excellence with policy relevance and realism. In Australia, CAEPR is currently the only dedicated research centre focusing on indigenous economic policy issues from a national perspective: its publications, which include the CAEPR Discussion Paper series, aim to broadly evaluate government policy, influence policy formulation and inform rational debate. The Director of the Centre is responsible to the Vice-Chancellor of ANU and receives assistance in formulating the Centre's research priorities from an Advisory Committee consisting of senior academics nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and representatives nominated by ATSIC, the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business and the Department of Family and Community Services. CAEPR Discussion Papers are intended as one forum for the rapid dissemination of refereed papers on research that falls within the CAEPR ambit. These papers are produced for discussion and comment within the research community and indigenous affairs public policy arena. Many are subsequently published in academic journals. Publications can be purchased from:
2008
CAEPR's principal objective is to undertake high-quality, independent research that will assist in furthering the social and economic development and empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout Australia. Its aim is to be a world-class centre undertaking research on Indigenous economic development issues that combines academic excellence with policy relevance and realism. CAEPR is currently Australia's major dedicated research centre focusing on Indigenous economic and social policy from a national perspective. The Centre's publications, which include the CAEPR Discussion Paper series first established in 1991, aim to report on Indigenous circumstance, inform public debate, examine government policy, and influence policy formulation. CAEPR Discussion Papers are intended as one forum for the dissemination of peer-reviewed research by Centre staff. These papers are produced both electronically and in hard copy. Other CAEPR outputs include Research Monographs, Working Papers and Topical Issues. Copies of Discussion Papers, Working Papers and Topical Issues are available for free electronic download from CAEPR's website <www.anu.edu.au/caepr/>, while Research Monographs can be accessed via the ANU E Press website <www.epress.anu.edu.au>.
Indigenous cultural and natural resource management futures
2011
, CAEPR has operated as an academic unit within the Research School of Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at ANU. The Centre is funded from a variety of sources including ANU, Australian Research Council, industry and philanthropic partners, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and State and Territory governments. CAEPR's principal objective is to undertake high-quality, independent research that will assist in furthering the social and economic development and empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people throughout Australia. Its aim is to combine academic and teaching excellence on Indigenous economic and social development and public policy with realism, objectivity and relevance. CAEPR is Australia's foremost social science research centre focusing on Indigenous economic and social policy from a national perspective. The Centre's publications, which include the CAEPR Working Paper series established in 1999, aim to report on Indigenous circumstance, inform public debate, examine government policy, and influence policy formulation. CAEPR Topical Issues present a broad ephemera of documents created by CAEPR staff contibuting to the analysis of contemporary issues and debates in Indigenous affairs.
Indigenous Australians' Employment Prospects
2000
Among the commentators on the situation of Indigenous Australians, the staff of the Australian National University's Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) stand out for their consistent attention to trends in Indigenous employment and income. The Centre owes its origin partly to the Hawke and Keating governments' wish to monitor the outcomes of the Hawke government's Aboriginal Employment Development Policy (AEDP). In 1987, the AEDP set targets which were couched in the language of statistical equality. The AEDP's hope was that Indigenous Australians, by 2000, would be like all Australians in their rates of labour force participation, unemployment, their average incomes, and in the occupational and industrial distribution of their jobs. These goals also implied a tendency towards equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous profiles of participation in schooling, tertiary education and vocational training.
and ANU. CAEPR's principal objective is to undertake high quality independent research that will assist in furthering the social and economic development and empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. CAEPR's mission is to be a world-class centre undertaking research on indigenous economic development issues that combine academic excellence with policy relevance and realism. In Australia, CAEPR is currently the only dedicated research centre focusing on indigenous economic policy issues from a national perspective: its publications, which include the CAEPR Discussion Paper series, aim to broadly evaluate government policy, influence policy formulation and inform rational debate. The Director of the Centre is responsible to the Vice-Chancellor of ANU and receives assistance in formulating the Centre's research priorities from an Advisory Committee consisting of senior academics nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and representatives nominated by ATSIC, the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business and the Department of Family and Community Services. CAEPR Discussion Papers are intended as one forum for the rapid dissemination of refereed papers on research that falls within the CAEPR ambit. These papers are produced for discussion and comment within the research community and indigenous affairs public policy arena. Many are subsequently published in academic journals. Publications can be purchased from:
1999
and ANU. CAEPR's principal objective is to undertake high quality independent research that will assist in furthering the social and economic development and empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. CAEPR's mission is to be a world-class centre undertaking research on indigenous economic development issues that combine academic excellence with policy relevance and realism. In Australia, CAEPR is currently the only dedicated research centre focusing on indigenous economic policy issues from a national perspective: its publications, which include the CAEPR Discussion Paper series, aim to broadly evaluate government policy, influence policy formulation and inform rational debate. The Director of the Centre is responsible to the Vice-Chancellor of ANU and receives assistance in formulating the Centre's research priorities from an Advisory Committee consisting of senior academics nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and representatives nominated by ATSIC, the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business and the Department of Family and Community Services. CAEPR Discussion Papers are intended as one forum for the rapid dissemination of refereed papers on research that falls within the CAEPR ambit. These papers are produced for discussion and comment within the research community and indigenous affairs public policy arena. Many are subsequently published in academic journals. Publications can be purchased from:
2008
Please find attached a brief submission to the Inquiry into developing Indigenous enterprises. The attached submission by Ms Kirrily Jordan and myself summarises some of the relevant research produced by the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University. By way of background, CAEPR is a research centre that has been at ANU since 1990. Its role is to contribute to better outcomes for Indigenous Australians by engaging in constructive academic and public policy debates based on evidence-based and innovative research. It should be noted though that CAEPR does not adhere to any corporate view and so this submission focuses primarily on research that we have undertaken and has a particular geographic focus on remote Australia. It is our understanding that our colleague Dr Boyd Hunter will be making a separate submission to the Inquiry. This submission principally focuses on the first two of the terms of reference for Inquiry into developing Indigenous enterprises and especially the aim of the Inquiry to identify areas of Indigenous commercial advantage and strength. In particular, it highlights the emerging opportunities for Indigenous enterprise in natural resource management, including in the response to climate change. Appropriate action to identify and support these activities will provide benefit to Indigenous Australians through the development of Indigenous enterprise, including joint ventures, as well as combining culturally-informed commercial activity with the potential for much-needed financial return. In addition, it will have positive outcomes for environmental and ecological sustainability, not only for the 20 per cent of the Australian land mass that constitutes the Indigenous-owned estate, but also for the nation as a whole. Support for these activities is pressing not only in the face of continued Indigenous economic disadvantage, but also in the face of the ongoing threat to biodiversity and the critical need to respond to climate change.
Aboriginal employment equity by the year 2000
1991
Each year, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia conducts a number of workshops on issues which are considered to be of national concern. During the year 1989-90 for instance, workshops were held on 'Human and Social Responses to Global Change', 'Prospects for Australian Newspapers', 'The Theory and Practice of Juvenile Justice' and 'Sexuality in Australia'. Rather than being public forums, workshops are small gatherings (usually no more than 30 people) of those working at the cutting edge of research. The object is not so much to inform, as to exchange and speculate in order to advance innovative ideas among those taking part, and thus promote and generate the research process. The choice of participants is made as inter-disciplinary as possible, and the emphasis is firmly on active participation by all those attending, with maximum opportunity for debate. In turn, it is hoped that workshops will generate networks and interchange which will promote further research. The workshop 'Aboriginal Employment Equity by the Year 2000' was formulated in a slightly different fashion. The Academy is currently the Secretariat for the Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASSREC), an organisation which has fifteen member countries in the Asian region. AASSREC is strongly supported, and partially funded by UNESCO, and members meet every two years to hold a Conference and Symposium. In 1991, the Biennial Symposium has as its theme 'Human Resource Development'. All member Councils were asked to conduct a national symposium on some aspect of this theme, and to report the findings to the AASSREC Symposium, to be held in Manila in August 1991. After some debate, it was decided that an appropriate focus for an Australian symposium would be the situation of Aboriginal Australians. Not only has the Academy a long history of research in this area, but it seemed realistic to accept regional concern and attempt to provide information about the problems involved, the policies adopted, and the prospects for change. It was also agreed that the appropriate person to present the findings of the workshop at the AASSREC Conference would be one of the Aboriginal participants.