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.
"At a national level we need a body of our own choosing…" Professor Dodson stressed. With Australia's endorsement of the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights imminent "Self determination has never been tried in Australia.."
So everyone is a Keynesian now. So what! Is there anyone, anywhere in parliament or government, who has the practical abilities of Harry Hopkins - who created 4 million jobs in a month - during the Great Depression?
As Australia faces the worst national peacetime disaster in it history, floods in the North and the global economic crisis, we meet an Aboriginal man of high degree, Djalu Gurruwiwi. Djalu shares his music and culture in order to bring peace and harmony to his fellow man. This letter from Australia features Part One: the music of Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel and Parts Two and Three: the music of Djalu Gurruwiwi also featuring Larrtjanna Gurruwiwi "Garrkuluk".
A wide-ranging, 40 minute conversation with the 2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Mick Dodson. Mick is giving a formal speech to the National Press Club on February 17. Watch out for it. If this conversation is an indicator it should be a "nation stopper".
Professor Mick Dodson the most fitting Australian of the Year.
Learn from our experiences in the South East, don't close down homelands, says Warren Mundine. "Closing communities doesn't work. In NSW we did that in the 1930s and 1920s in the South East in the Bourkes and Morees and you see the disasters that occurred. This idea that you can force people to move from homelands is bizarre to me. Its about making things better and economically sustainable." "I don't think there are many differences across the Aboriginal leadership at all... We just don't sit down and have enough cups of tea with each other." This is an unedited mp3 recording of a discussion with Warren Mundine at 4pm, 15 December 2008.
Learn from our experiences in the South East, don't close down homelands, says Warren Mundine. "Closing communities doesn't work. In NSW we did that in the 1930s and 1920s in the South East in the Bourkes and Morees and you see the disasters that occurred. This idea that you can force people to move from homelands is bizarre to me. Its about making things better and economically sustainable." "I don't think there are many differences across the Aboriginal leadership at all... We just don't sit down and have enough cups of tea with each other." This is an unedited mp3 recording of a discussion with Warren Mundine at 4pm, 15 December 2008.
Malcolm Turnbull brings new life and credibility to the Federal Opposition Parties.
The outcomes of Botsman v Telstra Corporation Ltd which finished in Nowra's "small people's court" - The Consumer Traders and Tenancy Tribunal - today!
A work in progress first published in Polity, Capability, Culture (2007). Updated here by popular demand. Free to people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.
