Research from APO

Outstations/homelands policy
Northern Territory Government20 May, 2009 As part of its "Working futures" policy the NT government has announced that services to outstations/homelands will in most cases involve a form of remote delivery, based from the closest or most accessible hub town.

Our home, our homeland: community engagement report
Northern Territory Government20 May, 2009 In September 2007 the Northern Territory Government took over responsibility for the delivery of municipal and essential services to Territory outstations starting 1 July 2008. The following report outlines the key outcomes from a series of community engagement meetings.

Developing a national Indigenous policy framework that recognises needs, rights and legacies and delivers results
Jon Altman Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research15 May, 2009 This paper examines current Indigenous policy, including Closing the Gap, a monolithic approach that privileges statistical equality over all else and undervalues difference and diversity.

Literacy in remote Indigenous Australia
Inge Kral Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research 15 May, 2009 The literacy debate rarely addresses the critical social and historical factors that also account for why literacy levels among remote Indigenous youth are lower than their mainstream counterparts.

The land is a map: placenames of indigenous origin in Australia
Luise Hercus ANU E Press15 May, 2009 The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names often evoke important information about features of the environment and their place in Indigenous systems of knowledge