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.
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.
7 October "Heckler" column for the Sydney Morning Herald with the usual first class illustration from the great Kerrie Leishman. The link below takes you to a lively discussion on the SMH site. Please take part.
Building value-adding information services for Indigenous organisations and people is about more than just taking a grant from government and putting up a "dead website". Should there be a code of practice for Indigenous website development? How can the very best and latest information thinking link up with Indigenous community leaders and leading Indigenous commercial and social businesses?
New songs from the studio of life. If you listen you will hear dogs barking, children playing, the answer and call of the Yolngu language. No sterile recording studio here. People come and go from their temporary accomodation close to the Gove Aluminium refinery. Midst the chaos and uncertainty, the beautiful purity of the Galpu women striving for a better life for their children and their families rings out. All proceeds from the sales of these songs go back to the Galpu community.
