The Native Title Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2009 introduces a new process intothe Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) on land where native title may exist forthe construction of public housing and public facilities, including health,education and emergency services.
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22legislation/billhome/r4230%22

The new Major Transport Projects Facilitation Act 2009 (Vic) is intendedto fast-track planning, environment and heritage approvals for major transportprojects by creating a single, streamlined assessment process. Part 6 Division2 deals with native title rights and interests.
http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/Domino/Web_Notes/LDMS/PubStatbook.nsf/f932b66241ecf1b7ca256e92000e23be/A33FAFFCBF244FC7CA2576400011A63F/$FILE/09-056a.pdf

NTRU PublicationsS Burnside, 'Negotiation in Good Faith under the Native Title Act: A CriticalAnalysis', Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, vol.4, no.3, 2009.K Guest, 'The Promise of Comprehensive Native Title Settlements: The Burrup,MG-Ord and Wimmera Agreements', AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper No.27,2009.
http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/publications/2009/DiscussionPaper_27_Guest.pdf

Other Native Title PublicationsJ Altman and D Martin (eds), Power, culture, economy: Indigenous Australiansand mining, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2009.B Cleworth, G Kapterian and P S Gillies, ‘Gove: Forgotten catalyst for nativetitle or are we just where we started? Native title and the mining industryissues in Australia from Gove to the present day’, Macquarie UniversityLaw Working Paper Series, no.2008-7, 2008.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1105577

CJ French, ‘Perspectives on Court Annexed Alternative Dispute Resolution’,Law Council of Australia — Multi-Door Symposium, Canberra, 27 July 2009.
http://www.highcourt.gov.au/speeches/frenchcj/frenchcj27july09.pdf

Toni Bauman and Cynthia Ganesharajah, ‘Second National Meeting of Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate, Melbourne 2 June 2009’, Native Title ResearchReport, 2/2009.
http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/publications/reports%20and%20other%20pdfs/FINAL_RNTBCMeetingReport.pdf

Kingsley Palmer, ‘Societies, Communities and Native Title’, Land, Rights,Laws: Issues of Native Title, vol.4, no.1, 2009.
http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/publications/2009/Issues%20Papers/IssuesPaperVol4No1.pdf

Simon Young, ‘Native Title in Canada and Australia post-: Shared Thinking or Ships in the Night?’, Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title,vol.4, no.2, 2009.
http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/publications/2009/Issues%20Papers/IssuesPaperVol4No2.pdf

Justice J.A. Dowsett, ‘Beyond Mabo: understanding native title litigationthrough the decisions of the Federal Court’, paper delivered to LexisNexis Native Title Law Summit, 15 July 2009.
http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/aboutct/judges_papers/speeches_dowsettj2.html

National Native Title Tribunal, Guide to Sources of Assistance and Funding for Prescribed Bodies Corporate, July 2009.
http://www.nntt.gov.au/Publications-And-Research/Tribunal-Research/Documents/Guide%20to%20Sources%20of%20Assistance%20and%20Funding%20for%20Prescribed%20Bodies%20Corporate.pdf

National Native Title Tribunal, Guide to Australian Government Funding Sources,July 2009.
http://www.nntt.gov.au/Publications-And-Research/Tribunal-Research/Documents/Guide%20to%20Australian%20Government%20Funding%20Sources.pdf

Graeme Neate, ‘Negotiating comprehensive settlement of native title claims’, paper delivered to LexisNexis Native Title Law Summit, 15 July 2009.
http://www.nntt.gov.au/news-and-communications/speeches-and-papers/pages/negotiating_comprehensive_settlements_of_nt_claims.aspx

Juanita Pope and Toni Bauman (eds), ‘ "Solid work you mob are doing" :Case studies in Indigenous Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management in Australia’, Report to the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council by the Federal Court of Australia’s Indigenous Dispute Resolution& Conflict Management Case Study Project, 2009.
http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/major_projects/indigenousdecisionmaking

Patrick Sullivan, ‘Policy change and the Indigenous Land Corporation’, AIATSIS Research Discussion Paper 25, 2009.
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/discussion.html

APO Research

The untimely abolition of the Community Development Employment Program
Jon Altman, Kirrily Jordan Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research21 August, 2009 This paper focuses on proposed changes to the Social Security Act 1991 that would facilitate changes to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme, and examines the serious potential consequences of abolishing CDEP.

The literacy question in remote Indigenous Australia
Inge Kral Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research21 August, 2009 This paper explores several factors that can contribute to the lower rates of literacy among remote Indigenous youth, many of which have little to do with the quality of teaching or resources, school attendance or lower expectations of competence.

Indigenous temporary mobility: An analysis of the 2006 Census snapshot
Nicholas Biddle, Sarah Prout Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research 21 August, 2009 This paper presents an analysis of census data as it relates to Indigenous temporary mobility and analyse the spatial and demographic complexities that underwrite them.

APO Research

The Blue Mud Bay case: Refractions through saltwater country
Frances Morphy, Howard Morphy Dialogue 2808 June, 2009 This paper contrasts settler Australian and Yolngu ways of conceptualising and giving meaning to the bodies of salt water that settler Australians call 'seas' and 'oceans'.

‘We call them pirates out here’, and in Mt Druitt
Tony Smith Australian Review of Public Affairs10 June, 2009 It has always been risky for academics to study Indigenous issues. These risks increased when the so-called culture and history wars intensified during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

APO Papers

Diabetes in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, 2004-05 Australian Bureau of StatisticsThis report is a statistical summary of diabetes in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, including comparison to the non-Indigenous population. Posted 06-04-2009

Challenges to relapse prevention: psychiatric care of indigenous in-patients Tricia Nagel, Carolyn Thompson and Neil Spencer / Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental HealthPartnerships between Aboriginal Mental Health Workers and non-Indigenous health professionals can assist in provision of culturally appropriate in-patient care and promotion of self-management and relapse prevention strategies. Posted 06-04-2009

APO Papers

Some reflections on the quality of administrative data for Indigenous Australians: The importance of knowing something about the unknown(s)
Boyd Hunter and Aarthi Ayyar / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy ResearchAnalysis of the Repeat Offenders Database collated by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research shows that the Indigenous population of offenders are substantially undercounted in administrative data collections. Posted 31-03-2009

Towards a gender-related index for Indigenous Australians
Mandy Yap and Nicholas Biddle / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research There has been extensive research into the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes but very little of this has adopted a gender perspective. Posted 31-03-2009

Closing the gap - targets for indicator diseases Stephanie Davis / Department of Health and Families, NT GovernmentThis article discusses the clear gap between the rates at which Indigenous and non-Indigenous people suffer from communicable diseases. Posted 27-03-2009

Analysis of the representation of Indigenous Australians in mainstream print media

Analysis of the representation of Indigenous Australians in mainstream print media: An exploration centred on the social determinants of health
Jessica Roberts / Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health

This research study aimed to measure and categorise the coverage of Indigenous Australians in all areas of three Australian newspapers and to specifically analyse the reportage of health articles and the social determinants of health. Posted 19-01-2009

Yolngu studies: A case study of Aboriginal community engagement

Michael Christie / Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
The paper gives details of the Yolngu studies program at Charles Darwin University which has been active in the teaching of Yolngu (East Arnhemland Aboriginal) languages and culture, in collaborative transdisciplinary research, and in community engagement. Posted 15-11-2008

Equality and difference arguments in Australian Indigenous affairs

Equality and difference arguments in Australian Indigenous affairs: Examples from income support and housing
W. Sanders / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
This paper explores the complex and never-ending dialectic between equality and difference in Australian Indigenous affairs, including responsibility-based welfare systems and Aboriginal housing policy debates. Posted 01-02-2008

The social effects of native title

The social effects of native title: recognition, translation, coexistence
Benjamin Smith and Frances Morphy / Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Despite the involvement of large numbers of anthropologists, lawyers, historians, archaeologists and others trained in the social sciences and humanities there has been surprisingly little reflection on the have engaged with native title as a social phenomenon. This collection seeks to make a contribution towards the study of the social effects of native title. Posted 09-11-2007

Aborigines and Uranium

Aborigines and Uranium:Monitoring the Health Hazards - by Colin Tatz, Alan Cass, John Condon and George Tippett

Indigenous victims of violent crime

Indigenous victims of violent crime: an exploratory analysis of risk and protection factors

Lucy Snowball and Don Weatherburn / NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
This paper from the 2007 Australian Social Policy Conference presents the results of an exploratory analysis of risk factors for violent victimisation using a wide range of factors drawn from the National Torres Strait Islander Social Survey. The results show higher risks of violent victimisation amongst certain groups, with the strongest correlate of Indigenous violence being high risk alcohol abuse. Posted 18-07-2007

9th Indigenous Researchers' Forum

11-13 July 2007, Alice Springs Convention Centre

The theme for the Forum, "Research: Critical tool for self-empowerment", will enable participants to reflect upon ways in which research is currently used to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples with the opportunity to engage in a process that begins with the self-empowerment for the individual and, ultimately, enables family and community well-being.