Bungala, the largest Community Development Employment Project (CDEP) in South Australia, is based in Port Augusta and has satellite work sites over a range of 450 kilometres. As of July 2000 Bungala had 310 participants working in a diverse range of activities. Bungala is a corporate CDEP. As well as serving the local community, Bungala...

Some key factors underlying the process of mobility in Indigenous households include access to resources ('demand sharing'), availability and quality of housing, overcrowding, conflict, the impact of death, and 'visiting' patterns. The experience of CAEPR's community-level household survey suggests the need for a multi-dimensional, nested set of definitions of 'household'. Minimally, 'household' should be defined...

This report examines the participation and representation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) elections over the ten-year period since its inception in 1990. The authors attempt to identify patterns of participation that seem to be emerging and what these might suggest about ATSIC's operation. By examining numbers of nominees compared to positions available...

Workplaces with Indigenous employees are qualitatively different from other workplaces because such workplaces use industrial relations practices consistent with encouraging greater cultural diversity within the firm. Whether this results from proactive measures on the part of management, or whether they result as a strategic initiative to solve existing problems is not clear.

M.C. Gray and A.J. Auld argue that understanding geographic variations in the socioeconomic status of Indigenous peoples is of importance when developing policies aimed at reducing the level of Indigenous disadvantage. Knowledge of geographic variations in socioeconomic status provides an understanding of some of the underlying structural reasons and impediments to improving the socioeconomic status...