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From Fish Creek to the Mann River: Hunter-gatherer transformations in western Arnhem Land, 1948–2008
Professor Jon Altman, Australian National University
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 19 November 2009
Jon Altman describes transformations in the customary economy of Aboriginal people in western Arnhem Land over 60 years – a comparative analysis made possible because of research undertaken by Frederick McCarthy and Margaret McArthur in 1948.
Yolngu ways of knowing Country: Insights from the 1948 Expedition to Arnhem Land
Emeritus Professor Dr Ad Borsboom, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 19 November 2009
Whereas the 1948 Expedition presented vast collections of plant and animal life classified according to Linnaean taxonomy, Ad Borsboom explores how the Yolngu organise and present knowledge through mythological Dreaming stories.
Policy mismatch and Aboriginal art centres: The tension between economic independence and community development
Gretchen Stolte, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Gretchen Stolte talks about Aboriginal art centres, arguing that a centre should be funded in accordance with its engagement with the community, because the more community-building it does, the less money it can make.
Workfare, welfare and the hybrid economy: The Western Arrernte in Central Australia
Diane Austin-Broos, University of Sydney
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
A self-proclaimed ‘hybrid economy skeptic’, Diane Austin-Broos offers some reasons why the Western Arrernte’s Community Development Employment Project became ‘welfare’ rather than ‘workfare.’
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.
