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Comprehensive and optimistic, this examination describes current Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period following the end of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in 2004. It provides a unique overview of the trajectory of current policy, advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy that moves beyond the debate over self-determination and assimilation. Arguing that the interests of Indigenous peoples, settlers, and immigrants are fundamentally shared, it proposes adaptation on both sides, but particularly for the descendants of settlers and immigrants. Advancing the body of knowledge in the field of the anthropology of policy and public administration, this empirical study is a must-read for policy-makers, academics, and indigenous peoples alike

Part 1 Interrogating Indigenous affairs policy -- Chapter 1: Indigenous public policy in global context -- Chapter 2: Rethinking Indigenous representation in Indigenous affairs -- Chapter 3: Rhetorical registers and the moral dynamics of failure and success in Australian Indigenous policy -- Chapter 4: Thinking policy through Indigenous knowledge -- Chapter 5: Changing the policy agenda from inside the party room: Indigenous knowledge and expertise in the Labor Party's First Nations Caucus -- Chapter 6: Black swans make better policy -- Chapter 6: Black swans make better policy -- Part 3 Nation building and resurgence: An alternative to policy? -- Chapter 7: Nation-building in Australia -- Chapter 8: Bureaucracy and sovereignty in contemporary Indigenous policy -- Part 4 Policy implications for communities -- Chapter 9: Rematriation and reconnection: Decolonising the colonial archive for the Gomeroi diaspora -- Chapter 10: Treaty as pathway to Indigenous controlled policy -- Chapter 11: Self-determination & education policy. .

The end of the very long-standing Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme in 2015 marked a critical juncture in Australian Indigenous policy history. For more than 30 years, CDEP had been among the biggest and most influential programs in the Indigenous affairs portfolio, employing many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. More recently, it had also become a focus of intense political contestation that culminated in its ultimate demise. This book examines the consequences of its closure for Indigenous people, communities and organisations. The end of CDEP is first situated in its broader historical and political context: the debates over notions of 'self-determination' versus 'mainstreaming' and the enduring influence of concerns about 'passive welfare' and 'mutual obligation'. In this way, the focus on CDEP highlights more general trends in Indigenous policymaking, and questions whether the dominant government approach is on the right track. Each chapter takes a different disciplinary approach to this question, variously focusing on the consequences of change for community and economic development, individual work habits and employment outcomes, and institutional capacity within the Indigenous sector. Across the case studies examined, the chapters suggest that the end of CDEP has heralded the emergence of a greater reliance on welfare rather than the increased employment outcomes the government had anticipated. Concluding that CDEP was 'better than welfare' in many ways, the book offers encouragement to policymakers to ensure that future reforms generate livelihood options for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians that are, in turn, better than CDEP.

"In Teaching 'Proper' Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The case studies in the book offer the first detailed surveys of efforts to teach responsible drinking practices to Aboriginal people by installing canteens in remote communities, and of the purchase of public hotels by Indigenous groups in attempts both to control sales of alcohol and to create social enterprises by redistributing profits for the community good. Ethnographies of the hotels are examined through the analytical lens of the Swedish 'Gothenburg' system of municipal hotel ownership. The research reveals that the community governance of such social enterprises is not purely a matter of good administration or compliance with the relevant liquor legislation. Their administration is imbued with the additional challenges posed by political contestation, both within and beyond the communities concerned.
'The idea that community or government ownership and management of a hotel or other drinking place would be a good way to control drinking and limit harm has been commonplace in many Anglophone and Nordic countries, but has been less recognised in Australia. Maggie Brady's book brings together the hidden history of such ideas and initiatives in Australia … In an original and wide-ranging set of case studies, Brady shows that success in reducing harm has varied between communities, largely depending on whether motivations to raise revenue or to reduce harm are in control.'
— Professor Robin Room, Director, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University"

This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of 'transgression', and Michel Foucault's account of the necessary dynamic that exists between transgression and limit. We know what constitutes the limit, not by tracing or re-stating the boundaries, but by crossing over them. By exploring the mechanisms by which limits are set and maintained, unexamined cultural assumptions and dominant ideas are illuminated. We see the expectations and the structures that inform and support them revealed, often as they unravel. Such illuminations and revelations are at the core of the Australian Indigenous histories presented in this collection.

As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901 narrates their recovery - not only in numbers but in cultural confidence and critical self-awareness. Pointing to Indigenous leaders, it also reassesses the contribution of government and mission 'protection' policies and the revised definitions of 'Aboriginal'. Timothy Rowse explains why Australia has conceded a large Indigenous Land and Sea Estate since the 1960s, and argues that the crisis in 'self-determination' since 2000 has been fuelled by Indigenous critique of the selves that they have become. As Indigenous people put themselves at the centre of arguments about their future, this book could not be more timely.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of maps and figures -- Introduction: Deakin surveys the continent -- 1. Missions and the state in North Australia -- 2. Knowing and ruling Northern Aborigines -- 3. Governments, churches, parents, spouses and children, 1897-1940 -- 4. Did 'protection' protect? -- 5. Global awareness and the recession of race -- 6. World Wars and the Cold War -- 7. Towards racial equality -- 8. From the referendum to 'self-determination' -- 9. The Indigenous Estate in Land and Sea -- 10. Asserting 'Southern' Aboriginality -- 11. The Indigenous middle class -- 12. Family, community and the crisis of self-determination -- Epilogue: Within a single field of life -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Bringing together a well-respected team of commentators, many of them indigenous Australians themselves, this revised and updated edition examines the legal, social and political developments that have taken place in Australia since the publication of the last edition.Providing students with a greater understanding of the issues facing Indigenous Australians in the hope of contributing to reconciliation, the authors explore a broad range of developments, including: human rights and reconciliation in contemporary Australia; the demise of ATSIC; issues of indigenous governance and water rights.G

Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- References -- François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance -- References -- Moving Blackwards: Black Power and the Aboriginal Embassy -- Black Power -- The tents -- Black pride -- The tents -- Black independence -- The tents -- References -- Primary documents -- Newspapers and media sources -- Secondary sources -- Criminal justice and transgression on northern Australian cattle stations -- Feudal transgression: a more elucidatory means of classifying cattle stations -- Intersection between feudal land laws and power -- Pastoralists' governance on the frontier -- Normalised pastoralists' jurisdiction -- Northern pastoral lords over their feudal estate and workers -- The strength of pastoralists' jurisdiction in the face of government legislation -- Non-payment of wages as a source of pastoralists' authority -- Aboriginal transgression -- Conclusion: limits of Aboriginal transgression and ways forward -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary Sources -- Dreaming the circle: indigeneity and the longing for belonging in White Australia -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, 'One Pound Jimmy', escaped the 'Stone Age' -- A cultural courtesy -- A snapshot -- Introduction -- The birth of Central Australian tourism -- The language of tourism -- The 'Imperial' tourist gaze -- The 'pioneer' tourist gaze -- The 'anthropological' tourist gaze -- Gwoja Tjungurrayi: the man behind the image -- Displacement and massacre -- Survival and adjustment -- Transmission of knowledge to the next generation -- Unwanted celebrity? -- Holmes: discoverer or myth-maker? -- The meeting -- The name -- Collaboration and escape -- Conclusion -- A postscript -- References

Foreword -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Contestations over development -- Theoretical framing -- Conduct of research and the focus of contributions -- Conclusion -- 2. Indigenous communities, miners and the state in Australia -- Introduction -- Scene setting: The overall context -- The state -- Multinational corporations -- Indigenous rights and economic levers -- Development outcomes -- Formal outcomes and social indicators -- Local views about outcomes -- Case 1: The Ranger Uranium Mine agreement

Bringing together a well-respected team of commentators, this revised and updated edition examines the legal, social and political developments that have take place in Australia since the publication of the last edition.

Foreword /Mick Dodson --Understanding Indigenous Australian governance--research, theory and representations /Diane Smith and Janet Hunt --Part 1.The governance environment.Between a rock and a hard place: self-determination, mainstreaming and Indigenous community governance /Janet Hunt --Constraints on researchers acting as change agents /Sarah Holcombe --Part 2.Culture, power and the intercultural.Cultures of governance and the governance of culture: transforming and containing Indigenous institutions in West Arnhem Land /Diane Smith --Whose governance, for whose good? The Laynhapuy Homelands Association and the neo-assimilationist turn in Indigenous policy /Frances Morphy --Regenerating governance on Kaanju homelands /Benjamin Richard Smith --Part 3.Institutions of Indigenous governance.Different governance for difference: the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation /Jon Altman --The business of governing: building institutional capital in an urban enterprise /Diane Smith --Indigenous leaders and leadership: agents of networked governance /Bill Ivory --Part 4.Contesting cultural geographies of governance.Noongar Nation /Manuhuia Barcham --Regionalism that respects localism: the Anmatjere Community Government Council and beyond /Will Sanders --Part 5.Rebuilding governance.Incorporating cattle: governance and an Aboriginal pastoral enterprise /Christina Lange --Mapping expectations around a 'governance review' exercise of a West Kimberley organisation /Kathryn Thorburn.

"There is a need for a greater level of awareness about the behaviours and circumstances that affect Indigenous community safety and the services available to communities to deal with them. Information in this report will help create an evidence base for developing initiatives that build on the resilience and capacity in Indigenous communities."