Why the 'new direction' in Federal Indigenous affairs policy is as likely to...
David Martin "Why the 'new direction' in Federal Indigenous affairs policy is as likely to 'fail' as the old directions" by David F. Martin. An edited transcript of a seminar delivered at CAEPR on May...
View ArticleChallenges for sustainable governance in the development and implementation...
21/05/2008 David Martin Agreement making, especially through Indigenous Land Use Agreements, is an increasingly important aspect of native title practice. Major mining agreements in particular are...
View ArticleDealing with alcohol in Alice Springs: an assessment of policy options and...
Paper No & Year 3 1999 Maggie Brady David Martin The excessive consumption of alcohol and associated behaviour is a potentially intractable issue with no easy policy solutions. Altering drinking...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Census: Observations of the 2001 Enumeration in Remote...
David Martin Frances Morphy William Sanders John Taylor Special enumeration procedures for Indigenous Australians were introduced in the 1971 Census, and have been a feature of the Australian national...
View ArticleRethinking the design of indigenous organisations: The need for strategic...
David Martin This paper argues that a fundamental issue confronting Australian indigenous groups and communities is how to develop the capacity to engage strategically with the general Australian...
View ArticleIndigenous community stores in the 'frontier economy': some competition and...
Siobhan McDonnell David Martin This paper examines key competition and consumer issues faced by Aboriginal people in remote Aboriginal communities, with particular reference to the provisions of the...
View ArticleIs welfare dependency 'welfare poison'? An assessment of Noel Pearson's...
David Martin Aboriginal lawyer, activist and social commentator Noel Pearson has recently argued that the current mode of delivery of welfare services to Aboriginal people is deeply antithetical to...
View ArticleRegionalisation of Northern Territory Land Councils
Robert Levitus David Martin David Pollack The dispersal of the powers exercised and functions performed by the two major land councils has been the subject of debate and recommendations on a number of...
View ArticleThe supply of alcohol in remote Aboriginal communities: potential policy...
David Martin This Discussion Paper aims to outline some of the key issues surrounding alcohol availability and consumption in remote Aboriginal communities, focusing on those in Cape York. The...
View ArticleRegional agreements and localism: A case study from Cape York Peninsula
David Martin There are a number of important prerequisites before there can be any assurance that regional approaches to negotiating new institutional arrangements between Aboriginal and other...
View ArticleLinking accountability and self-determination in Aboriginal organisations
David Martin Julie Finlayson The issue of accountability in Indigenous affairs has recently received national prominence. Accountability— usually meaning financial accountability to government or to...
View ArticleMoney, business and culture: Issues for Aboriginal economic policy
David Martin A central issue facing policy makers is how to meet principles of equity and social justice in access to economic benefits for Australia’s diverse regional, ethnic and Indigenous...
View ArticleEnumerating the Aboriginal population of remote Australia: methodological and...
David Martin John Taylor Despite claims of underenumeration of Indigenous people, a basic problem in establishing the demography of remote Indigenous populations remains the lack of well documented...
View ArticlePower, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining
Jon Altman David Martin Research over the past decade in health, employment, life expectancy, child mortality, and household income has confirmed that Indigenous Australians are still Australia's most...
View ArticleAlternative constructions of Indigenous identities in Australia’s Native...
15/08/2012 David Martin This presentation is directed in the first instance towards processes under Australia’s Native Title Act (NTA), where seemingly alternative constructions of Indigenous identity...
View ArticlePolicy alchemy and the magical transformation of Aboriginal society
Authors David Martin Martin, D. 'Policy alchemy and the magical transformation of Aboriginal society', in Y. Musharbash and M. Barber (eds), Ethnography and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge:...
View ArticleThe art of Wik politics and the politics of Wik art
Authors David Martin Martin, D.F. 'The art of Wik politics and the politics of Wik art', in S. Butler (ed.), Before Time Today: Reinventing Tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art, University of Queensland...
View ArticlePower, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining
Authors Jon Altman David Martin Altman, J. and Martin, D. (Editors) Power, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 30, ANU E Press, Canberra, xxii+239pp.
View ArticleThe governance of agreements between Aboriginal people and resource...
Authors David Martin Martin, D.F. 'The governance of agreements between Aboriginal people and resource developers: Principles for sustainability', in J. Altman and D. Martin (eds), Power, Culture,...
View ArticleAboriginal sorcery and healing, and the alchemy of Aboriginal policy making
Authors David Martin Martin, D.F. 'Aboriginal sorcery and healing, and the alchemy of Aboriginal policy making', Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 33: 75-128.
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