The Northern Territory has three categories of local government: municipal, community government and association councils. Will Sanders explores the historical development of these three categories, as well as their different relationships to Indigenous interests. The financial positions of the three types of local government are examined in relation to the very different service roles they...

Craig Linkhorn examines issues connected with the availability of finance to develop Māori land and the use of Māori land as security for loans, using two case studies. The paper concludes with some remarks about the New Zealand situation that might be relevant and of interest to those working with Indigenous landowning communities in Australia.

This paper examines issues connected with the availability of finance to develop Mãori land and the use of Mãori land as security for loans, using two case studies. The paper concludes with some remarks about the New Zealand situation that might be relevant and of interest to those working with Indigenous landowning communities in Australia.

There is a danger that policy-makers will fall into the trap of conceptualising Indigenous residence as occurring in some fixed hierarchy of settlements, rather than as occurring regionally and flexibly between larger and smaller communities and between smaller communities.

Current frameworks for considering the structural situation of Indigenous peoples are increasingly focused on State and Territory jurisdictional levels. While this may ease access to data and help determine federal-state responsibilities, it provides little guidance regarding the spatial underpinnings of Indigenous disadvantage.