Working Papers
The working papers collection comprises historical papers as well as current ideas and works in progress on some of the major issues and topics of our times.
For a few years they have actually managed to banish all imagination from the world, all enthusiasm, extravagance, everything that makes life worth living. But now with our Nero (Kristina), all these things are back again. With Apologies to Lion Feuchwald, The False Nero, 1936
Ken Henry – King of Canberra – Head of Treasury, Canberra’s most powerful department – says the resources tax will be a winner for Aborigines. Well everything is all right. All is correct in the universe again. Jenny Macklin Minister for Indigenous Affairs says thanks Ken. There is nothing to worry about. We can all sleep peacefully in our beds, our consciences clear. Oh no! If ever there was an indication that this government and this bureaucracy just don’t understand the real problems besetting Aboriginal Australia then his statement that “some of the money raised from the proposed resources tax should be used for indigenous development” is it. What this really means is more of the same.
The Henry Tax Review, the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples and the Marginalisation of Aboriginal Political Interests
How the Resources Tax will disadvantage Aboriginal Australia and what can be done about it.
Who's hot and who's not in national public affairs.
Opportunities for the minor parties from the Liberal Party leadership imbroglio and the necessity of building alternative political agendas outside the mainstream parties: Or, eleven reasons I have joined the Australian Democrats.
This paper is about how non-Indigenous and Indigenous owned mining companies can make a difference in remote and regional Indigenous communities by building the transport, business and housing infrastructure capacity of Indigenous communities through targeted 100 per cent tax deductible donations of cash, infrastructure, equipment and services. This strategy has many benefits. It can be a means of supporting Aboriginal contractors to build an independent business asset base and capacity, increasing the self sufficiency of Indigenous communities and reducing the high cost of living in mining regions.
Online movie of Rob Chewying and Peter Botsman speaking to the movers and shakers at Digital Eskimo on September 17.
Written transcript of October 2009 Letter from Australia: Reading Samson and Delilah
Many critics are acknowledging Warwick Thornton's Samson and Delilah as Australia’s cinematic masterpiece of all time. The film is so rich that volumes can be written about it. In this Letter from Australia we see the film as emerging from a flukey creative space that has emerged around grass roots community media organisations like CAAMA in Alice Springs and Goolarri in Broome. It is time to get serious about funding and investing in these creative anchor points for an Aboriginal film and media renaissance.
