Will Sanders argues that the housing tenure system in more densely settled Australia, dominated by home ownership, does not fully penetrate to remote areas for either Indigenous or other households. He suggests that the policy goal of promoting home ownership in remote Aboriginal communities is largely unrealistic, given the underlying income and employment status of...

Indigenous Australians are much less likely to finish high school, and for those that do, less likely go on to university or other studies. Nicholas Biddle looks at the relationship between education and health for Indigenous Australians, comparing it to similar associations for the non-Indigenous population. For all health measures used, those with lower education...

Michelle Cochrane reports on a research trip in May 2003 to study the Djelk Ranger program operating under the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation. The success of the ventures mentioned in this report is built on a unique blend of formal legal institutional mechanisms and customary law and socio-cultural conventions. The opportunities for economic development in Indigenous...

One important and under-researched aspect of labour market policy is the extent to which policy interventions are effective in modifying job search behaviour. Furthermore, there is little extant research on whether certain job search behaviours lead to labour market success. Matthew Gray and Boyd Hunter's analysis uses the only large-scale longitudinal survey of Indigenous Australians...

Anne Daly presents data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing to highlight the low levels of computer and internet usage by Indigenous Australians. One possible way of addressing the digital divide between capital city dwellers and other Australians is through the development of community online access centres. Factors that are likely to make...