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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.
From barter to award wages: Aboriginal labour and Methodist missions in Arnhem Land
Gwenda Baker, Monash University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Gwenda Baker traces the history of Aboriginal labour on Methodist missions in Arnhem Land, where award wages led to fewer jobs. While resenting the low wages, some Aborigines see their work on the missions as a highlight of enterprise and achievement.
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.’
Demand responsive services and culturally sustainable enterprise in remote Aboriginal settings
Paul Memmott, University of Queensland
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
In a good-practice study of where the Dreamtime meets the market, Paul Memmott discusses the Myuma Group (of three Aboriginal corporations) in far west Queensland, which successfully manages the interplay between demand for and supply of service.
Before the mission station: The incorporation of settlers into a seasonal economy
John White, Australian National University
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Exploring intercultural relations in the period of pastoral expansion, John White says that working relationships based on reciprocity enabled Aboriginal people to factor settlers into their seasonal movements and carve out a niche in the settler economy.
Necessity entrepreneurship within a dominant society
Dennis Foley, University of Newcastle
Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies conference, 10 November 2009
Dennis Foley describes two kinds of Indigenous entrepreneur: ‘opportunists’ who seize a concept and use their networks to embark on a business venture, and those who lack capital, so out of ‘necessity’ must adapt to dominant culture to provide the basics.
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.
