In 2004 a bold experiment in the use of joined-up approaches to policy-making and
implementation, best captured in the design of new policy architecture and the creation of a …

This represents a substantial revision of Philip Mendes' successful textbook Australia's
Welfare Wars, in which the author explains--and questions--many of the values and …

This paper analyses several newspaper articles which appeared in the media following the
murder of teenager Liep Gony who had come to Australia as a refugee from Sudan, and the …

Using indigenous citizenship as a frame, the article examines the deeply ambiguous effects
of globalisation for indigenous peoples in the Antipodes. We demonstrate that processes of …

A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they
found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It …

The long‐standing policy of “practical reconciliation” between Australian Indigenous and
Non‐Indigenous people has actively disregarded the need to redress past injustice as the …

During the Howard decade, numerous controversies emerged in the Indigenous Affairs
portfolio: the 'ten point plan'on native title; the question of a formal apology to the stolen …

The Australian Government has recently increased resourcing for evaluation of Indigenous
programmes following critical reports by the Australian National Audit Office and Productivity …

Governments in Australia, as in many other countries, have wrestled since the late 1970s
with a series of structural reforms in the public sector, intended as the foundation for …

This article examines the changing ways in which the Commonwealth government has
addressed its Indigenous 'problem'over the last 16 years. The essence of the problem is that …