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11–20 of 27 total results for economy by keyword.
A financial scandal
Ros Kidd, historian and consultant
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
For seven decades the Queensland government intercepted Aboriginal people’s wages, child endowment, pensions, inheritances. It controlled their bank accounts, deducted fees, restricted withdrawals. This was wrong. What are the avenues for redress?
Animal spirits in the Dreaming and the market: The economic development of caring for country
Geoff Buchanan, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Are the Dreaming and the Market mutually exclusive? In economics as in anthropology, ‘animal spirits’ are understood to influence outcomes. Geoff Buchanan explores the hybrid economy (customary, market and state) in the context of caring for country.
Unfair pay: Tracing tracker wages in New South Wales, 1862–1950
Michael Bennett, historian, Native Title Service Corp
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Hundreds of Aboriginal men were employed as police trackers from 1862. They enjoyed a regular income, but the work was risky and the pay and conditions terrible. Michael Bennett describes the system and makes the case for a compensatory scheme.
Options for developing a natural resource-based economy in Arnhem Land: Payments for environmental services
Nanni Concu, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are used to simultaneously tackle poverty and environmental degradation. Using data from two field sites, Nanni Concu talks about the potential of PES to promote a natural-resource-based economy in Arnhem Land.
The 1968–69 introduction of equal wages for Aboriginal pastoral workers in the Kimberley
Fiona Skyring, consultant historian
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Challenging the idea that equal wages caused mass eviction and unemployment for Aboriginal people, Fiona Skyring looks at other factors such as how government investigations in 1965 and 1966 discouraged station owners from appropriating pension payments.
Social and cultural factors in remote area Indigenous enterprise development
Deirdre Tedmanson (paper co-authored by Bobby Banerjee)
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Deirdre Tedmanson uses Foucault’s notion of ‘governmentality’ to explore impediments to enterprise development in ‘remote’ homelands and communities on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia, and ways of overcoming them.
Albert Namatjira, camels and cars: the evolution of Indigenous art economies in Central Australia
Alison French, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Alison French considers the role of camels and cars in the evolution of Namatjira’s art and the ways they fostered and sustained both the practice of art as well as myths and stereotypes that position artists and the economic values of their art.
‘Always Anangu’ – always enterprising’
Alan O'Connor, University of South Australia
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Alan O’Connor examines Anangu involvement in economic life from early records pre-contact, through the establishment of the mission Ernabella, in 1937, when dingo scalps were traded for flour, tea and sugar, to the enterprises that emerged in the 1970s.
The hybrid economy as political project
Professor Jon Altman, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Altman introduces his conceptual framework ‘the hybrid economy’, devised as a means to overcome the binary between market/non-market and to explore alternative ways of understanding and practising ‘development’.
‘Afghans’ and Aborigines in Central Australia
Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 9 November 2009
Philip Jones explores the relations between Aboriginal people and ‘Afghans’, whose camel trains linked Central Australian outposts with supply centres and markets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
