Indigenous Futures: Choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia

Tim Rowse

Contents

Foreword by Jon Altman, Director, CAEPR
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From assimilation to self-determination

Part I - Interpreting the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy
Introduction
1 Some outcomes of the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy
2 Indigenous Culture and Indigenous choice
3 The problem of motivation in education, training and employment
4 Indigenous institutions and the labour market

Part II Land, sea and economic development
Introduction
5 Hunting, gathering and tourism
6 Mining incomes
7 Native title
8 Representing the land-owner interest

Part III Domestic choices: children, gender and identity
Introduction
9 Families and welfare
10 Gender reforming
11 Households, individuals and the Indigenous population

Part IV Indigenous agencies of collective choice
Introduction
12 ATSIC's regions: the 'equity' issue
13 ATSIC's regions: the identity issue
14 Modernising Indigenous political culture

Part V Making governments accountable
Introduction
15 The Indigenous Sector and relations within and among governments

Conclusion: CAEPR and the Indigenous Sector

Notes
References
Index 000