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The Australian National University

Indigenous Population Project

This 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.

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People on Country Project

People on Country aims to transfer skills to land and sea management groups that address Indigenous well-being, and the delivery of better natural resource management on Aboriginal land and sea country.

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Visiting Indigenous Fellowship

The CAEPR Visiting Indigenous Fellowship scheme provides opportunities for collaboration between CAEPR research staff and Indigenous researchers and leaders.

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New Media Project

The Connecting, Communicating and Learning through New Media Project is exploring the impact of digital technologies and media practices on the social, cultural and linguistic ecology of remote Indigenous Australia.

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CAEPR Research Plan

CAEPR undertakes multidisciplinary social science research on Indigenous policy and development to inform intellectual understanding, public debate, policy formation and community action.

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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

05
Apr
‘13

Welcome to the new Director of CAEPR

Congratulations to Professor Matthew Gray on his appointment as Director of CAEPR following the retirement of Professor John Taylor at the end of March 2013.

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26
Feb
‘13

People On Country Annual Report 2012

The People On Country Annual Report 2012 is now available for free download. The Report details the activities and outcomes of the fifth and final year of the People on Country project, and includes the full, independent, end-of-project evaluation report by Dermot Smyth. [92 pages, 1.7 Meg]

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21
Jan
‘13

Recent CAEPR Topical Issues

Recent publications in the CAEPR Topic Issues series include:

"The Power of Data in Aboriginal Hands" by Peter Yu (4/2012)

"Less is More: Reflections on the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Reports" by Boyd Hunter and Nikki Stephenson (1/2013)

"Indigenous employment: A story of continuing growth" by Matthew Gray, Boyd Hunter and Monica Howlett (2/2013)

"Policing the Frontier: Christmas in Borroloola" by Seán Kerins (3/2013).

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