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Issue Briefs
The documents on this page are a result of a funded ATSIC project in 1996-97. Since the completion of this project, CAEPR has sought to provide a short version of each brief as a summary to each discussion paper produced and posted on this website.
CAEPR's core function is to undertake research of the highest academic standard for publication in the CAEPR Discussion Paper and Research Monograph series. When a reader survey indicated interest in summaries of key research results, these Briefs were developed and targeted specifically to the Indigenous community sector and other public audiences.
CAEPR views outreach and teaching as an integral part of the research process and we welcome any feedback on these Issue Briefs.
The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Culture and society through space and time
CAEPR is very pleased to post an introductory flyer for the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia edited by CAEPR researchers Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy. Published in November 2005, the Atlas has been an ongoing CAEPR project since 2002, and is the result of an active collaboration with Macquarie Library and Macmillan, with maps produced by the University of Sydney. Atlas authors came from CAEPR as well as from other parts of the ANU, the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Sydney University, University of Melbourne, Menzies School of Health Research, and Queensland University.
This Atlas is extremely comprehensive, providing a spatial and historic treatment of many subjects and is unique, both in Australia and internationally. It is now available in hardcover, and will be available online via Macquarienet in September 2006. The Atlas of Indigenous Australia will have great influence as a research and public education tool and I recommend it to CAEPR site users in the strongest possible terms.
Professor Jon Altman
Director, CAEPR
All events take place in a space, and spaces tell us a story. The distribution of our activities forms patterns which make up a human landscape, and in turn that landscape is a window on our lives. With over 250 full-colour maps, this atlas provides a unique and easily accessible introduction to Australian Indigenous life—as it was in the past, as it has changed over time, and as it is today. It encourages the reader to think about how the effects of geography and spatial relationships mould and influence human societies and cultures through space and time. We invite you to use this atlas as a starting point for further exploration.
Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy
General Editors
The Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia: Culture and society through space and time has been awarded the 2006 Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing.
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COERCIVE RECONCILIATION: STABILISE, NORMALISE, EXIT ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA
Arena Publications, Melbourne, 2007
RRP in Australia: $27.50
In the wake of the release of Anderson/Wild Little Children Are Sacred report, the Howard government has declared a national emergency and mobilised a coalition of police, army and others in what they suggest will be the ‘first phase’ of a program to tackle child sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal Australia. Using both the language and strategic force of a military campaign, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs has described his government’s new approach towards Aboriginal communities in the terms: ‘stabilise, normalise, exit’.
Edited by Jon Altman, Director of the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, and Melinda Hinkson, Lecturer in Anthropology at the ANU, this book is an urgent critical response to the government’s actions. A wide range of authors contextualise the crisis facing remote Aboriginal communities and the government’s most recent response in light of the history of and wider policy towards Aboriginal Australia. The book considers how the rhetoric of emergency excludes such questions as whether the government itself is complicit in the state of remote Aboriginal communities; how the approach to tackling child sexual abuse dovetails with the government’s broader goals in Indigenous affairs; the long-term effects of the government’s actions; and alternative responses to the Anderson/Wild report.
Contributors include: Jon Altman, Ian Anderson, Judy Atkinson, Larissa Behrendt, Kay Boulden, Maggie Brady, Tom Calma, David Dalrymple, Megan Davis, Michael Dillon, Michael Dodson, Patrick Dodson, Bill Fogarty, Raimond Gaita, Olga Havnen, John Hinkson, Melinda Hinkson, Ernest Hunter, Melissa Johns, Michael Mansell, Joe Morrison, John Morton, Gregory Phillips, Tristan Ray, David Ross, Tim Rowse, Guy Rundle, Mathew Ryan, John Sanderson, John Taylor, William Tilmouth, Pat Turner, Nicole Watson and Rex Wild with artwork by Michael Leunig, Rod Moss and Bruce Petty.
(RRP: $27.50 Bulk orders of 10 or more copies receive a 40% discount)
Please note: Coercive Reconciliation is not a CAEPR publication. To order, please use this form. Inquiries should be directed to Arena Publications on 61 (0)3 9416 0232 or by email to glenise@arena.org.au.
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Synthesising Ten Years of CAEPR Research...
In Indigenous Futures - choice and development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia (2002), Tim Rowse examines Indigenous policy in Australia through the lens of 'Indigenous choice'. In doing so, he synthesises ten years of research from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.
Indigenous Futures is published by UNSW Press — ISBN 0 86840 605 8. The recommended retail price is $39.95. It can be ordered through the Co-op Bookshop.
A table of contents for Indigenous Futures is available here.
