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This paper tracks the recent rise of an 'ideology vs evidence' discourse as a way of describing good and bad Indigenous affairs policy. It suggests that a more useful way of thinking about Indigenous affairs is the analytic of three competing principles: equality, choice and guardianship. The paper suggests that dominant debates in Indigenous affairs balance these principles and move between them over time. Using a fourfold categorisation of ideological tendencies, it also suggests that different tendencies of thought about settler society and its relations with Indigenous societies occupy different positions in relation to the three competing principles. Finally, using the work of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board as an example, the paper examines the role of evidence in Indigenous affairs. Evidence, it argues, always needs to be contextualised: it is always a part of arguments or debates and needs to be understood in relation to the much larger issue of balancing competing principles.

This article seeks to understand the role of being a senior manager in Indigenous community governance, particularly though not exclusively in remote Aboriginal communities. It argues against the tendency of would‐be reformers of Indigenous community governance to focus on the competence and ethical qualities of those who occupy these roles and asks instead how can isolated managerialism in Indigenous community governance be overcome? The article begins with an overview of Ralph Folds' analysis of relations between Pintupi settlements and the larger Australian polity. While taking much from Folds' analysis, the article argues that ultimately he relies too heavily on the idea of antithetical worldviews across the settlement interface, on a problematic distinction between the official and private uses of publicly allocated resources and on too idealist a view of the Australian state. The article argues that the state's allocation of public resources inevitably involves a flow of private benefits and that public purposes and private benefits are not different phenomena, but rather different perspectives on state action. In contrast to Folds' idealism about the state, the article outlines a more thoroughly realist or materialist analysis of being a good senior manager in Indigenous community governance. In its concluding section, the article makes some suggestions for overcoming isolated managerialism in Indigenous community governance oganisations.

Kundenorientierung, Partizipation und Respekt sind inzwischen anerkannte Leitbegriffe einer zeitgemäßen Sozialarbeit. Es fehlt jedoch immer noch an methodisch durchdachten und praktisch erprobten Anleitungen, sich auf eine professionelle Weise und nicht lediglich moralisch, rhetorisch oder intuitiv auf die damit notwendig gewordenen Veränderungen einzulassen. In dieser Lage ist Kreativität und Fantasie gefordert, einerseits die neuen Organisationsformen auch mit einem anderen Denken zu beleben, andererseits die praktische Arbeit mit den Klienten aus der paternalistischen Falle zu befreien. In ganz verschiedener Weise geht es den Beiträgen darum, die Beziehung zum Klienten nicht um das Defizit herum zu gestalten, das vielleicht der Anlass für diese Beziehung war, sondern die Kompetenzen, Ressourcen und Stärken der Klienten zu aktivieren. Es wird über originelle und bisher wenig bekannte Methoden und Projekte berichtet, und zwar von Autorinnen und Autoren, die für ihre Sache leben. Wegen dieser Realitätsnähe seiner Beiträge kann der vorliegende Band in besonderer Weise für Studium und Weiterbildung anregen sowie konkrete Hilfestellungen für die praktische Arbeit geben.

In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when care for human beings began to disappear slowly, and ending with the modern era, when societal events require less person-to-person interaction and introduce radical changes in common attitudes toward death and life, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with a continuous bombardment of "information" that demands our attention and brings us out of our world and into a sterile one of inhumanity and abstraction