Welcome to CAEPR Topical Issues. This page contains a diverse range of articles, reports, media opinion pieces, submissions, sound recordings and links that address topics of interest in Indigenous affairs. As with all CAEPR publications, the views expressed in documents on this page are those of the author(s) and do not reflect any official CAEPR position.

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No.	Title	Author
2009/9	The First-Ever Northern Territory Homelands/Outstations Policy	Kerins, S.
2009/8	Submission to the Review of the National Biodiversity Strategy: Indigenous people's involvement in conserving Australia's biodiversity	Altman, J.C. , Kerins, S. , Ens, E. , Buchanan, G. , May, K.
2009/7	The Blue Mud Bay Case: Refractions through saltwater country	Morphy, F. , Morphy, H.
2009/6	The literacy question in remote Indigenous Australia	Kral, I.
2009/5	The untimely abolition of the Community Development Employment Program	Altman, J.C. , Jordan, K.
2009/4	Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Inquiry into Community Stores in Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities	Altman, J.C. , Jordan, K.
2009/3	A Brief Commentary in Response to the Australian Government Discussion Paper ‘Optimising Benefits from Native Title Agreements’ and the Report of the Native Title Payments Working Group	Altman, J.C. , Jordan, K.
2009/2	Developing a national Indigenous policy framework that recognises needs, rights and legacies and delivers results	Altman, J.C.
2009/1	Prospects for closing the gap in a recession: Revisiting the role of macroeconomic factors in Indigenous employment	Hunter, B.H.
2008/17	Why the Northern Territory Government needs to support Outstations/Homelands in the Aboriginal, Northern Territory and National Interest	Altman, J.C. , Kerins, S. , Fogarty, W. , Webb, K.
2008/16	Submission to the Australian Government's 'Increasing Indigenous Employment Opportunity' Discussion Paper	Altman, J.C.
2008/15	Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport on Natural Resource Management and Conservation Challenges	Altman, J.C. , Kerins, S.
2008/14	Submission to "Increasing Indigenous Economic Opportunity – A discussion paper on the future of the CDEP and Indigenous Employment Programs"	Altman, J.C.
2008/13	Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the Arts inquiry into the operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999	Altman, J.C. , Kerins, S.
2008/12	Permits, private property, and cultural survival	Morphy, F. , Morphy, H.
2008/11	Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Inquiry into developing Indigenous enterprises	Altman, J.C. , Jordan, K.
2008/10	Submission to The Northern Territory Emergency Response Review	Altman, J.C.
2008/9	Re-engaging the economic with the social	Morphy, F.
2008/8	The Challenge of ‘Closing the Gaps’ in Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes	Altman, J.C. , Biddle, N. , Hunter, B.H.
2008/7	Revisiting the Role of Rhetoric in Economics: A review of Helen Hughes’ Lands of Shame	Hunter, B.H.
2008/6	Indigenous Housing Tenure in Remote Areas: Directions and Constraints	Sanders, W.G.
2008/5	Re-vitalising the Community Development Employment Program in the Northern Territory	Altman, J.C. , Sanders, W.G.
2008/4	Closing the Gap rhetoric buys into Howard legacy	Altman, J.C.
2008/3	Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Australians: Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review	Altman, J.C. , Jordan, K.
2008/2	Fresh Water in the Maningrida Region's Hybrid Economy: Intercultural Contestation over Values and Property Rights	Altman, J.C. , Branchut, V.
2008/1	Failure, Evidence & New Ideas	Hunt, J.
2007/16	The Howard Government’s Northern Territory Intervention: Are Neo-Paternalism and Indigenous Development Compatible?	Altman, J.C.
2007/15	Conspicuous Compassion and Wicked Problems - The Howard Government’s National Emergency in Indigenous Affairs	Hunter, B.H.
2007/14	Neo-Paternalism and the Destruction of CDEP	Altman, J.C.
2007/13	Opening comments to Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into the Provisions of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Bill 2007 and Associated Bills	Altman, J.C.
2007/12	The 'National Emergency' and Land Rights Reform: Separating fact from fiction	Altman, J.C.
2007/11	Scrapping CDEP is just Plain Dumb	Altman, J.C.
2007/10	Alleviating poverty in remote Indigenous Australia: The role of the hybrid economy	Altman, J.C.
2007/9	Stabilise, normalise and exit = $4 billion	Altman, J.C.
2007/8	Options for Warlpiri Education and Training	Schwab, R.G.
2007/7	Yet another failed Howard government experiment in Indigenous affairs?	Altman, J.C.
2007/6	Changes to CDEP under DEWR: Policy substance and the new contractualism	Sanders, W.G.
2007/5	Indigenous Potential meets Economic Opportunity Discussion Paper	Altman, J.C. , Hunter, B.H. , Sanders, W.G.
2007/4	Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector	Altman, J.C.
2007/3	Access to Aboriginal Land under the Northern Territory Land Rights Act	Altman, J.C.
2007/2	Sustainable governance for small desert settlements	Sanders, W.G. , Holcombe, S.
2007/1	Attempting to Silence the Social Sciences	Altman, J.C.
2006/9	The Future of Indigenous Australia: Is there a path beyond the free market or welfare dependency?	Altman, J.C.
2006/8	Amended Land Rights Law will be Bad Law	Altman, J.C.
2006/7	Natural and Cultural Resource Management	Altman, J.C. , Larsen, L.
2006/6	“Send in the Army!”	Schwab, R.G.
2006/5	Why the 'new direction' in Federal Indigenous affairs policy is as likely to 'fail' as the old directions	Martin, D.F.
2006/4	Beyond Emotional Rhetoric to Evidence-Based Policy Making	Altman, J.C.
2006/3	Indigenous affairs after the Howard decade: An administrative revolution while defying decolonisation	Sanders, W.G.
2006/2	The Indigenous hybrid economy: A realistic sustainable option for remote communities?	Altman, J.C.
2006/1	Views From The Top of the 'Quiet Revolution' (Streaming Audio)	Gray, W. , Sanders, W.G.
2005/8	Harvest of Marine Turtles and Dugongs	Altman, J.C. , Buchanan, G.
2005/7	CDEP 2005—A New Home and New Objectives for a Very Old Program?	Altman, J.C.
2005/6	The CDEP scheme: A flexible and innovative employment and community development program for Indigenous Australians	Altman, J.C. , Gray, M.C.
2005/5	Brokering Aboriginal art: A critical perspective on marketing, institutions, and the state	Altman, J.C.
2005/4	Strengthening Indigenous Community Governance: a step towards advancing Reconciliation in Australia	Hunt, J. , Smith, D.E.
2005/3	Rejoinder to 'Key Social and Economic Indicators for Indigenous Australia: A Comparative Analysis'	Altman, J.C. , Hunter, B.H.
2005/2	The Opportunity Costs of the Status Quo in the Thamarrurr Region	Taylor, J.
2005/1	Indigenous Social Policy and the New Mainstreaming	Altman, J.C.
2004/12	The Past and Future of CDEP	Sanders, W.G.
2004/11	Literacy for Life: A Scoping Study for a Community Literacy Empowerment Project	Schwab, R.G. , Sutherland, D.
2004/10	ATSIC's achievements and strengths: Implications for institutional reform	Sanders, W.G.
2004/9	Economic Development and Indigenous Australia: Contestations over Property, Institutions and Ideology?	Altman, J.C.
2004/8	Taming the social capital Hydra? Indigenous poverty, social capital theory and measurement	Hunter, B.H.
2004/7	Prospects for Regionalism in Indigenous Community Governance	Sanders, W.G.
2004/6	Indigenous Land Management in NSW	Altman, J.C.
2004/5	Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America	Taylor, J. (Ed.) , Bell, M. (Ed.)
2004/4	Economic Development and Participation for Remote Indigenous Communities	Altman, J.C.
2004/3	Indigenous Australians in the Contemporary Labour Market	Hunter, B.H.
2004/2	Senate Inquiry into Poverty And Financial Hardship in Australia	Altman, J.C. , Hunter, B.H. , Johns, M.
2004/1	Monitoring 'practical' reconciliation: Evidence from the reconciliation decade, 1991-2001	Altman, J.C. , Hunter, B.H.
2003/8	Beyond the Frontier: Sustainable Futures for North Australia	Altman, J.C.
2003/7	Pathways to Employment for Indigenous Youth	DEWR Issue Brief
2003/6	Labour Market Programs and Indigenous Australians	DEWR Issue Brief
2003/5	Indigenous Job Search Behaviour	DEWR Issue Brief
2003/4	Pathways to Labour Market Success for Indigenous Australians	DEWR Issue Brief
2003/3	Economic Development Barriers, Opportunities and Pathways	Altman, J.C.
2003/2	Aboriginal Access to Firearms for Wildlife Harvesting	Altman, J.C.
2003/1	Indigenous Interests in Water	Altman, J.C. , Cochrane, M.J.
2002/5	Banking and Financial Services in Rural, Regional and Remote Australia	Altman, J.C.
2002/4	Wildlife Management Review Discussion Paper	Altman, J.C. , Cochrane, M.J.
2002/3	Banking and Financial Services in Rural, Regional and Remote Australia	Altman, J.C. , Taylor, J.
2002/2	Capacity Building in Indigenous Communities	Altman, J.C.
2002/1	'Indigenous Futures' by Tim Rowse	Wootten, H.