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Indigenous Population Project

The Population Project explores the dynamics and regional geography of Indigenous population and socioeconomic change, including detailed regional analyses, assessments of social and spatial mobility and disadvantage, and selected case studies.

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People on Country Project

People on Country aims to transfer skills to land and sea management groups to address how their activities are improving Indigenous well-being, and how they might deliver better natural resource management on Aboriginal land and sea country.

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Youth and Learning Project

The Youth and Learning project examines 'best practice' learning projects and programs in remote Indigenous communities for youth aged between 16 and 25.

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Indigenous Governance Project

The Indigenous Community Governance Project focuses on understanding, building and sustaining effective governance in rural, remote and urban Indigenous communities.

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Education Futures Project

Education, Training and Indigenous Futures reviews education-related research undertaken by CAEPR over the period 1990-2007.

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Welcome to CAEPR

The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) is Australia’s foremost social science research body focusing on Indigenous economic and social policy from a national perspective. CAEPR aims to undertake social science research on Indigenous policy and development that is excellent by the best international and disciplinary standards and that informs intellectual understanding, public debate, policy formation and community action. Our website offers a number of features including open access to research results and publications, email notification of new content, RSS feeds, and links to CAEPR-related material on other sites.

New publications

Announcements

21
Feb
‘12

People On Country Annual Report 2011

The 2011 People on Country Annual Report is now available for download, detailing the activities and outcomes of the fourth year of the People on Country project

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21
Feb
‘12

Recent Working Papers for download

Recent CAEPR Working Papers available for free download include Indigenous education: Experiential learning and Learning through Country by W. Fogarty & R.G. Schwab, Work, Welfare and CDEP on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands: First stage assessment by K. Jordan, and Determinants of Indigenous labour supply following a period of strong economic growth by B.H. Hunter and M.C.Gray.

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16
Feb
‘12

POC Partner Reports

Comprehensive Annual Reports from People on Country project partners Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation, Yirralka Rangers, and Warddekken Land Management are available for download.

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Seminars

The next CAEPR Seminar Series commences in early 2012. Please check back for program details.

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