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Can home ownership work for Indigenous Australians living on communal title land?
Paul Memmott, and others Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute 26 November 2009
If governments are interested in pursuing more demand driven approaches to housing in indigenous communities, policy-makers need better information about indigenous people's perceptions of home ownership.

Restoring identity. Final report of the Moving forward consultation project
Author: Amanda Cornwall Revised edition (June 2009)
The Moving forward national consultation project included a consultation process and research during 2001 and 2002, conducted by PIAC in partnership with Stolen Generations groups, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and other Aboriginal organisations.

The Indigenous Resiliency Project: a worked example of community-based participatory research
Julie Mooney-Somers, Lisa Maher New South Wales Public Health Bulletin September 2009
"Aboriginal people have been examined, measured and asked questions ... They have been passive subjects rather than participants." Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is often cited as a suitable methodological approach for academic researchers wanting to work collaboratively with Indigenous communities. This paper describes the Indigenous Resiliency Project currently being conducted in Redfern, Townsville and Perth.

Social benefits of Aboriginal engagement in Natural Resource management 
Janet Hunt, Jon Altman, and Katherine May Working Paper 60 / 2009
This paper examines the social benefits of Aboriginal engagement in natural resource management (NRM) in New South Wales (NSW).

Power, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining 
Jon Altman and David Martin (Editors)Published August 2009 CAEPR Monograph No. 30.

The untimely abolition of the Community Development Employment Program 
Jon Altman (Director, CAEPR) and Kirrily Jordan (Post Doctoral Fellow, CAEPR) 8th May 2009
Focuses on proposed changes to the Social Security Act 1991 that would facilitate changes to the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme, and examines the serious potential consequences of abolishing CDEP as currently formulated in non-remote areas by July 2009 and remote areas by July 2011.

The benefits of Caring for Country in NSW 
Janet Hunt CAPER 8th April 2009
There exists a growing body of literature about the benefits to Indigenous people, as well as to the environment, of living on and caring for land and sea country. However, most of these findings emanate from Northern Australia, where Aboriginal people are usually working on their own Aboriginal-owned or -controlled land. NSW is the state with the largest absolute number of Indigenous people, but their landholdings comprise less than one per cent of the state. Click here to listen to seminar.

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Center for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) is an Indigenous policy research centre located at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.CAEPR's mission is to contribute to better outcomes for Indigenous Australians by objectively and constructively informing and influencing intellectual understanding, public debate, policy formation and community action through research, education and community engagement that is innovative, grounded and of the highest quality.

Centre for Aboriginal Independence and Enterprise
The Centre for Aboriginal Independence and Enterprise was formed to foster cultural, social and community expression and assists to realise enhanced self-esteem and economic independence for Aboriginal people.

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