Redefining viability: Aboriginal homelands communities in north-east Arnhem Land

Australian Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 381-396

  Morphy, Frances ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Aboriginal Australians; Remote economies; Wellbeing (definitions of)

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350605836     PISSN: 01576321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2008.tb00109.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Altman, J. (1987) Hunter-Gatherers Today: An Aboriginal Economy in North Australia, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
2. Altman, J. (2001) Exploring Sustainable Development Options on Aboriginal Land: The Hybrid Economy in the 21st Century, CAEPR Discussion Paper No. 226, Canberra, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University. Available at .
3. Altman, J. C., Linkhorn, C. and Clarke, J. (2005) Land Rights and Development Reform in Remote Australia, Fitzroy, Vic., Oxfam Australia.
4. Altman, J. C. and Taylor, L. (1989) The Economic Viability of Aboriginal Outstations and Homelands, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service.
5. Barber, M. (2005) Where the Clouds Stand: Australian Aboriginal Relationships to Water, Place and the Marine Environment in Blue Mud Bay, Northern Territory. PhD Thesis, The Australian National University (unpublished).
6. Commonwealth of Australia (2008) Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity: A Discussion Paper on the Future of the CDEP and Indigenous Employment Programs, Canberra, Australian Government.
7. Hughes, H. (2007) Lands of Shame: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'Homelands' in Transition, St Leonards NSW, Centre for Independent Studies.
8. Hughes, H. and Warin, J. (2005) A New Deal for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Issue Analysis No. 54, St Leonards, NSW, Centre for Independent Studies.
9. McDermott, R., O'Dea, K., Rowley, K., Knight, S. and Burgess, P. (1998) 'Beneficial impact of the homelands movement on health outcomes in Central Australian Aborigines', Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 22 (6): 653-8.
10. Mathie, A. and Cunningham, G. (2002) From Clients to Citizens: Asset-Based Community Development as a Strategy for Community-Driven Development, Occasional Paper, Nova Scotia, Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University. Available at .
11. Media Monitors (2005) 'Amanda Vanstone describes remote Aboriginal communities as cultural museum's [sic] and has called for Indigenous Australian's [sic] to be treated like everyone else'. Media Monitors transcript of interview by Alexandra Kirk with Senator Amanda Vanstone, ABC 666 Canberra, 13 December.
12. Morphy, F. (1983) 'Djapu, a Yolngu dialect'. In R.M.W. Dixon and B.J. Blake (eds) Handbook of Australian Languages, Volume 3, Canberra, The Australian National University Press.
13. Morphy, F. (2002) 'When systems collide: The 2001 census at a Northern Territory outstation'. In D.F. Martin, F. Morphy, W.G. Sanders and J. Taylor Making Sense of the Census: Observations of the 2001 Enumeration in Remote Aboriginal Australia, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 22, Canberra, ANU E Press. Available at .
14. Morphy, F. (2004a) Indigenous Household Structures and ABS Definitions of the Family: What Happens When Systems Collide, and Does It Matter? CAEPR Working Paper No. 26, Canberra, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University. Available at .
15. Morphy, F. (2004b) A Linguistic Report in Support of a Claim to Recognition of Native Title in the Land and Sea by the Yolngu People of Blue Mud Bay. Unpublished report to the Northern Land Council, Darwin.
16. Morphy, F. (2005) 'Why the Yolngu are a bit different: An overview of their social system and a potted history of their region since the 1930s'. Background paper prepared for the Regional Authorities Implementation Group, Department of Community Development, Sport and Cultural Affairs, Darwin, 23 May.
17. Morphy, F. (2007) 'Uncontained subjects: "population" and "household" in remote Aboriginal Australia', Journal of Population Research, 24 (2): 163-84.
18. Morphy, F. (2008) 'Re-engaging the economic with the social. A response to Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity: a discussion paper on the future of the CDEP and Indigenous employment programs', CAEPR Topical Issue No. 9, Canberra, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University.
19. Morphy, F. (In press) 'Whose governance, for whose good? The Laynhapuy Homelands Association and the neo-assimilationist turn in Indigenous policy', in J. Hunt, D. Smith, S. Garling and W. Sanders (eds) Contested Governance: Culture, Power and Institutions in Indigenous Australia, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 29, ANU E Press, Canberra. [Available on publication at http://epress.anu.edu.au].
20. Morphy. F. and Marika, W. (2005) 'Laynhapuy IPA and the Yirralka ranger program: A new initiative for a venerable homelands association', Community Governance, 1 (4): 1-2. Available at .
21. Morphy, F. and Morphy, H. (2008) 'Not seeing what is there', Arena Magazine, 94: 40-3.
22. Morphy, H. (2004) An Anthropological Report on the Yolngu of Blue Mud Bay, in Relation to Their Claim to Native Title in the Land and Sea. Unpublished report to the Northern Land Council, Darwin.
23. Peterson, N. (2005) 'What can pre-colonial and frontier economies tell us about engagement with the real economy? Indigenous life projects and the conditions for development', in D. Austin-Broos and G. MacDonald (eds) Culture, Economy and Governance in Aboriginal Australia, Sydney, Sydney University Press.
24. Price, M. (2005) 'Blacks' art "our greatest cultural gift'", The Australian, 29 November.
25. PricewaterhouseCoopers (2007) Living in the Sunburnt Country. Indigenous Housing: Findings of the Review of the Community Housing and Infrastructure Programme, Final Report, February 2007, Canberra, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
26. Rowley, K. G., O'Dea, K, . Anderson, I., McDermott, R. et al. (2008) 'Lower than expected morbidity and mortality for an Australian Aboriginal population: 10-year follow up in a decentralized community', The Medical Journal of Australia, 188 (5): 283-7.
27. Shergold, P. (2001) 'The Indigenous Employment Policy: a preliminary evaluation', in F. Morphy and W. G. Sanders (eds) The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme, CAEPR Research Monograph No. 20, Canberra, ANU E Press. [Available at http://epress.anu.edu.au].
28. Smith, D. (1991) Aboriginal Unemployment Statistics: Policy Implications of the Divergence Between Official and Case-Study Data, CAEPR Discussion Paper No. 13, Canberra, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University.
29. Taylor, J. (2008) 'Indigenous demography and public policy: from 'Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage' to overcoming disadvantaged indicators', Plenary 1, Indigenous Demography, Australian Population Association 14th Biennial Conference Demographic Change in the 21st Century, Alice Springs, 30 June to 3 July, 2008.
30. Taylor, J. and Stanley, O. (2005) The Opportunity Costs of the Status Quo in the Thamarrurr Region, CAEPR Working Paper No. 28, Canberra, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University. Available at .
31. Vanstone, A. 2005. 'Beyond conspicuous compassion: Indigenous Australians deserve more than good intentions'. Address to the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, Australian National University, Canberra, 7 December.