Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies

Gudurr Tataya standing at the doorway of the stone kitchen at Karunjie from which rations were served to the workforce. Photo: Dr Anthony Redmond.

A conference to be held at the National Museum of Australia, in association with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University.

A linking theme will be the development of local 'hybrid economies' involving the articulation of Indigenous and settler social and economic forms, and the emergence of new complexes of transactions and relations.

We hope to cover a broad variety of economies from whaling to CDEP across the span of more than two centuries.

Professor Jon Altman, Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), Australian National University.

Professor Altman has been awarded an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship (2008 to 2013) focussing on 'Hybrid Economic Futures for Remote Indigenous Australia'.

For more details on Professor Altman see: http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/StaffProfiles/altman.php.

Gudurr Tataya with photos he dug out of his bag of his old Karunjie bosses, Dave Rust and Scotty Salmond. Photo: Dr Anthony Redmond.

• Histories of economic relations
• Exotic relations: camels and the articulation of Indigenous and settler social and economic forms
• Economy and material culture
• The transformation of relations and transactions within and around missions and stations, fringe camps and towns
• Transitions from low wage to no wage and CDEP
• Stolen wages and the contemporary efforts to secure recompense
• Local enterprise and Indigenous communities
• Conflicts over development.

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Day One - Monday, 9 November

8.00 - 8.30am	Registration
8.30 - 9.15am	Welcome and Keynote lecture
9.15 - 10.30am	Histories of economic relations (2 papers)
10.30 - 11.00am	Morning coffee
11.00am - 1.00pm	Histories of economic relations cont. (5 papers)
1.00 - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00 - 4.00pm	Histories (1 paper); Exotic relations: camels and settler and social forms (4 papers)
4.00 - 4.30pm	Afternoon tea
4.30 - 6.30pm	Economy and material culture (5 papers)
7.30pm	Conference dinner - Boffins Bar and Restaurant, University House

Day Two - Tuesday, 10 November

8.30 - 10.30am	Missions and stations, fringe camps and towns (3 papers); Transitions from low wage to no wage and CDEP (1 paper)
10.30 - 11.00am	Morning coffee
11.00am - 1.00pm	Transitions cont. (2 papers); Stolen wages (3 papers)
1.00 - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00 - 4.00pm	Local enterprise: substantive issues and theoretical frameworks (5 papers)
4.00 - 4.30pm	Afternoon tea
4.30 - 5.30pm	Conflicts over development (5 papers)
5.30 - 6.00pm	Wrap up, and publication plans.

Organising committee: Ian Keen, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Pickering, Anthony Redmond, Fiona Skyring, John White.

Conference secretary: Natasha Fijn.

The IPAE conference is funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant and the National Museum of Australia.

Email addresses for abstracts:

• Natasha Fijn (Natasha.Fijn@anu.edu.au)
• Ian Keen (Ian.Keen@anu.edu.au)

The conference will be fully catered with morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on both days.

• Registration fee: $50
• Student fee: $25
• Conference dinner: $65

Click on the IPAE 2009 Registration button to register and pay online through the Australian National University.

We will meet for drinks after the first day of the conference at The Cellar Café and Bar, University House, Australian National University.

Conference dinner from 7.30 pm at Boffins Bar and Restaurant, University House, on Monday, 9 November 2009. Payment for the set meal is part of the online registration form. The cost of the conference dinner is $65 per person.

Canberra City YHA
7 Akuna St, Canberra City.
Telephone: (02) 6248 9155
Fax: (02) 6249 1731
Email: canberracity@yhansw.org.au

Individual prices:

• twin/double $93 non-members, $83 members
• 4 share $35.50 non-members, $31.50 members
• 8 share $32 non-members, $28.50 members
• group discount for the conference for more than ten people, contact canberracitygroups@yhansw.org.au

This hostel is located right in Canberra's city centre and is no further than 15 minutes walk to the National Museum.
Just google Canberra City YHA for more details (including a map) or go to www.yha.com.au

University House
Australian National University, Balmain Crescent, Acton, Canberra.
Telephone: (02) 6125 5211
Fax: (02) 6125 5252
Email: Unihouse@anu.edu.au
Special conference prices:

• $127 per twin room
• $136 with breakfast for one person
• $147 with breakfast for two people

University House is on the Australian National University campus and no more than ten minutes easy walk to the conference at the National Museum and in to Canberra's city centre. The pre-dinner drinks and meal will be held within the same building complex.
See http://www.anu.edu.au/unihouse/accomm/accommodation.html

Rydges Lakeside Canberra
1 London Circuit, Canberra.
Telephone: (02) 6247 6244
Fax: (02) 62573071
Email: reservations_Canberra@rydges.com
Special conference rate: queen room at $165/night.
See www.rydges.com/canberra

Diamant Hotel
15 Edinburgh Avenue, Canberra.
Telephone: (02) 6175 2222
Fax: (02) 6175 2233;
Email: info.can@diamant.com.au
Prices: standard room from $175; deluxe from $215 per night.
See www.diamant.com.au for further details.

Both the Rydges and the Diamant Hotels are located just across from the Australian National University and beside Lake Burley Griffin. Approximately ten minutes walk to the conference at the National Museum and approximately the same distance to the city centre in the opposite direction. Quality restaurants and bars are located within the same building complex as the Diamant Hotel.