Resources and publications
Title | Author /s | Summary | Date | Tag(s) | Type |
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Statistics for Community Governance: The Yawuru Indigenous Population Survey of Broome | John Taylor, Bruce Doran, Maria Parriman, Eunice Yu | This paper presents a case study of an exercise in Aboriginal community governance. It sets out the background events that led the Yawuru Native Title Holders Aboriginal Corporation to secure information for its own needs as an act of self-determination and essential governance, and it presents some of the key findings from that exercise |
CAEPR, Community development, Data sovereignty, Governance, PBCs (Prescribed Body / Bodies Corporate), Strategic planning | Article / paper | |
Ten key messages from the preliminary findings of the Indigenous Community Governance Project, 2005 | Janet Hunt, Diane Smith | The Indigenous Community Governance Project (ICGP) is an Australian Research Council Linkage Project between the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University, and Reconciliation Australia (RA). The Project is exploring the nature of Indigenous community governance in diverse contexts and locations across Australia through a series of case studies—to understand what works, what doesn’t work, and why. This document presents some key messages emerging from a summary of the comparative analysis of the Project’s 11 current Indigenous case studies, after the first phase of a longer study. |
CAEPR, Governance | Report | |
The power of data in Aboriginal hands | Peter Yu | This paper explores the critical role that data can play in development scenarios when Aboriginal people are in control of collecting, managing and interpreting data. It was first presented as a pleniary paper at the conference Social Science Perspectives on the 2008 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, held at The ANU on 11–12 April 2011. |
CAEPR, Data sovereignty | Article / paper | |
The Social Effects of Native Title: Recognition, Translation, Coexistence | Benjamin Smith, Frances Morphy (eds) | The papers in this collection reflect on the various social effects of native title. In particular, the authors consider the ways in which the implementation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), and the native title process for which this Act legislates, allow for the recognition and translation of Aboriginal law and custom, and facilitate particular kinds of coexistence between Aboriginal title holders and other Australians. |
CAEPR, Indigenous knowledge | Book | |
Valuing native title compensation after De Rose and Griffiths (No. 3) | Vance Hughston | Mr Hughston SC will discuss the approach taken by the Court in Griffiths v Northern Territory of Australia (No 3) [2016] FCA 900 (Timber Creek) to the assessment of compensation and in particular the division of the award of compensation into components of economic and non-economic loss. Mr Hughston SC will discuss the uncertainties associated with both components. |
Compensation, Future acts, Legal, Native Title Act, Past acts | Presentation |