Chapter 1. Place Making, Migration and the Built Environment: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Immigrants and the built environment in New South Wales -- Chapter 3. Immigrants and the built environment in Queensland -- Chapter 4. Immigrants and the built environment in Western Australia -- Chapter 5. Minority immigrants and the Australian built environment.
In more than 50 years of federal public policy relating to Australia's First Nations peoples, employment has always been prominent among the issues taking centre stage. Recent Coalition governments have positioned it as one of their three major aims in the Indigenous Affairs portfolio: getting 'kids into school,' 'adults into work' and improving community safety. But behind these seemingly simple statements lies an enormous real-world complexity. Getting more people into work moves well beyond the supply and demand models of mainstream economics, with policy approaches hinging on a tangled mix of ideology, contested evidence and competing ideas. As Liddle's introduction to this volume suggests, many of the assumptions that underpin policy decisions remain informed by colonial narratives. These assumptions require serious and sustained critique. Key questions include: What counts as 'work'? Who decides? Are the challenges relating to First Nations employment best understood as structural or individual? How can employment policy move beyond notions of 'carrots' and 'sticks' and take account of the enormous locational, historical and aspirational diversity of First Nations peoples? To what extent should it be self-determined, or cohere with an Indigenous polity? And should notions of 'decent' work come into play?
This statement outlines concerns with the 2018 Deloitte Access Economics review of the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC). The statement is endorsed by 33 academic and professional experts in the policy areas examined by RCIADIC, including policy responses to Aboriginal deaths in custody. It suggests that the scope and methodology of the Deloitte review mean that it misrepresents governments' responses to RCIADIC, and has the potential to misinform policy and practice responses to Aboriginal deaths in custody. It is also evidence of a more widespread problem in Indigenous Affairs policy-making in Australia. In particular, current approaches too often ignore the principles of self-determination and the realities of policy as experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The statement calls for the development of national independent monitoring of the implementation of the recommendations of RCIADIC, for the Federal Government to fully embrace and enact the intent of the RCIADIC recommendations, and for the Federal Government to provide a response to the Australian Law Reform Commission's Inquiry on Indigenous Incarceration Rates (2017).
List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- From welfare to work, or work to welfare? -- Kirrily Jordan and Jon Altman -- Reframed as welfare: CDEP's fall from favour -- Will Sanders -- Some statistical context for analysis of CDEP -- Boyd Hunter -- Just a jobs program? CDEP employment and community development on the NSW far south coast -- Kirrily Jordan -- Looking for 'real jobs' on the APY Lands: Intermittent and steady employment in CDEP and other paid work -- Kirrily Jordan
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.
"Who Gets What? looks at recent trends in income and wealth in Australia and examines the economic evidence in a way that makes fascinating reading for both general and specialist audiences. The book looks at who is rich and who in Australia still lives in poverty - and why. It explores the causes of economic inequality and the possibility of making our society more equal. Ultimately, the authors offer their own solution to these problems, with policies which could redistribute income and wealth more equitably."--Jacket
This 2007 book addresses important contemporary concerns about social justice. It presents detailed economic evidence, but analyses it in a manner that is engaging and readily accessible to the non-specialist reader. Who Gets What? examines what has been happening to incomes and wealth in Australia, what causes increased economic inequality, and the possibility of creating a more egalitarian society. It looks at who is rich, which social groups are still in poverty, and the policies that could redistribute income and wealth more effectively