CAEPR and Indigenous policy in the media

Women Rangers Toolkit Workshop held at ANU

College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
27 April 2012

This week the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) held the second of two week-long workshops to help women rangers from the Top End and Central Western Australia develop a ‘toolkit’. The toolkit outlines what work women rangers in remote areas are doing, what work they want to do, some of the challenges they are facing and strategies to overcome them, and aim to help inform other rangers and the community.

15 May 2012

Stronger Futures juggernaut hits a few potholes

by Jon Altman, 'Evidently' column, Tracker, April 2, 2012.
The opportunity to shine a light on the Stronger Futures legislation came about more through good luck than good management.

3 April 2012

Policy by numbers a dangerous charade

By Jon Altman, 'Evidently' column, Tracker, March 19, 2012

The government’s Closing the Gap report card is disturbing light on outlining its progress in eliminating Indigenous disadvantage.

3 April 2012

Advance Australia fair?

By Jon Altman, 'Evidently' column, Tracker, February 13 2012.
The Expert Panel’s report [on Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians] makes sense, but there should be debate over the use of the word 'advancement'.

16 February 2012

Major Arnhem Land employer in financial trouble

By Katrina Bolton, ABC News, 05 December 2011.

7 December 2011

"Sit-down money" encourages welfare reliance

By Tom Nightingale, ABC News, 07 November 2011.
New research has found a remote Aboriginal jobs program may be inadvertently encouraging the reliance on welfare that it is meant to address.

24 November 2011

The Government's new case for the intervention

By Michael Brull, The Drum, 21 November 2011.

23 November 2011

A new Intervention?

By Jon Altman, 'Evidently' column, Tracker, November 1 2011.
This month, the Gillard government announced its Stronger Futures report into the future of the Northern Territory Intervention. But did the “old” intervention actually improve the lives of NT Aboriginal communities?

9 November 2011

"Sit-down money" encourages welfare reliance

By Tom Nightingale, ABC News, 7 November 2011.
New research has found a remote Aboriginal jobs program may be inadvertently encouraging the reliance on welfare that it is meant to address.

9 November 2011

Daly River station returns to Aboriginal groups

By Liz T. Williams, Australian Geographic, 8 November 2011.
Conservation, preservation of Aboriginal culture and the creation of jobs are rarely achieved at the same time - but, as a new partnership at the NT's Fish River station demonstrates, with clever planning, all three can come together in a single project.

9 November 2011