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Energy security on remote Aboriginal communities during the COVID-19 crisis
- Author: Riley, Brad
- Publisher: Australian National University, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
- Published: 2020
The current serious threat facing Indigenous communities has led many organisations in northern Australia to take the precaution of sending vulnerable community members back to remote homelands in an effort…
The COVID-19 conundrum in remote Indigenous Australia: Schools
- Author: Fogarty, Bill
- Publisher: Australian National University, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
- Published: 2020
There is a palpable fear that COVID-19 will devastate Aboriginal populations in remote communities in Northern Australia. For example, there are over 45,500 Aboriginal people in the ‘Outback’ of the…
Talking About Smoking in East Arnhem Land: Indigenous Australian Cultural Mentors and a Decolonized Research Methodology
- Author: Tane, Moana Pera
- Published: 2020
A qualitative study in the Northern Territory of Australia, among the Yolŋu people, traditional owners of large estates in the remote, isolated region of East Arnhem Land, sought to determine…
Indigenous entrepreneurialism and mining land use agreements
- Author: Holcombe, S
- Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
- Published: 2009
In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the focus of this chapter, the mining boom—or the ‘ramp up’ in production as it is referred to within the industry—is such that…
Chapter 6: A broker diagnostic for assessing local, regional and LEB-wide institutional arrangements for Aboriginal governance of desert environments
- Authors: Robinson, CJ, Williams, L, Lane, MB
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2009
This report proposes a framework (referred to as the broker diagnostic) to assess and analyse the efficacy of institutional arrangements for Aboriginal people and their land management aspirations in the…
Differentials and determinants of Indigenous population mobility
- Authors: Taylor, J., Kinfu, Y.
- Publisher: ANU E Press
- Published: 2006
Of the three components of demographic change, geographic mobility is the most nebulous and difficult to measure, and yet it is the one with potentially the greatest impact on population…
Local communities and mines
- Author: International Institute for Environment and Development
- Publisher: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- Published: 2002
The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) Project is an independent two-year project of research and consultation seeking to understand how the mining and minerals sector can contribute to the…