Garma Festival

For Caring for Country see Jon Altman and Michelle Cochrane CAEPR Discussion Paper 247 (2003) http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/Publications/DP/2003_DP247.pdf

links to The Drawing Board: Australian Review of Public affairs Jon Altman on living on country (2003) http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/journal/0311/altman.html

Jon Altman, on The Political economy of a Treaty (2002)
http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/journal/0211/altman.html

see also Volume 4, Number 3: March 2004. Labour Relations on Northern
Cattle Stations Thalia Anthony and their discussion of ATSIC http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/index.html

For further reading and background papers on these issues see the CAEPR website working papers at http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/working.php

Particularly relevant are:

WP 2	'Further investigations into Indigenous labour supply: what discourages discouraged workers?', B.H. Hunter and M.C. Gray, 1999.
WP 6	'Governance and service delivery for remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory: challenges and opportunities', N. Westbury and W. Sanders, 2000.
'WP 9	'Indigenous communities and business: Three perspectives, 1998-2000', J.C. Altman, 2001.
WP 13	'The rise of the CDEP scheme and changing factors underlying Indigenous employment', B.H. Hunter, 2002
WP 14	'Institutional factors underpinning Indigenous labour force participation: The role of the CDEP scheme and education', B.H. Hunter, 2002.
WP 15	'Generating finance for Indigenous development: Economic realities and innovative options', J.C. Altman, 2002.
WP 16	'The spatial context of Indigenous service delivery', J. Taylor, 2002.
WP 17	'The potential use of tax incentives for Indigenous businesses on Indigenous land', O. Stanley, 2002.
WP 18	'Banking on Indigenous communities: Issues, options, and Australian and international best practice', S. McDonnell and N. Westbury, 2002.
WP 19	'One size fits all?: The effect of equivalence scales on Indigenous and other Australian poverty', B.H. Hunter, S. Kennedy and N. Biddle, 2002.
WP 20	'Caring for country and sustainable Indigenous development: Opportunities, constraints and innovation ', J.C. Altman and P.J. Whitehead, 2003.
WP 22	'Developing an Indigenous Arts Strategy for the Northern Territory: Issues paper for consultations', J.C. Altman, 2003.
WP 23	'A New Model of Inclusion? Centrelink's development of income support service delivery for remote Indigenous communities', W. Sanders, 2003.