Occasional Papers

June 2009: Dr Stephanie Jarrett, Violence: An Inseparable Part of Traditional Aboriginal Culture. "There is little point in criticising traditional Aboriginal Australia, unless traditions pose dangers for today's Aboriginal people, and unless we incorporate this reality into policy responses..." [600k PDF]

October 2007: Rev. Steve Etherington PhD, Coming Ready or Not. "The best way to end child abuse is to provide real jobs to adults, to create a working lifestyle. This would also begin to rectify the other self-destructive impacts of underemployment and unemployment such as substance abuse, uncontrolled gambling and domestic violence..." [250k PDF]

October 2007: Jenness Warin (with James Franklin), Remote Aboriginal Communities: Why the trade in girls and other human rights abuses remain hidden. In a new Occasional paper, Jenness Warin explores the reasons why old customs die hard in remote Aboriginal Australia, where girls are traded by old men .... [1.2 Mb PDF]

March 2007: Gary Johns, Making Land Rights Work. Aborigines are people, not heritage and their land should be made economic or traded to someone who can make it economic, argues Gary Johns in a new Occasional Paper. [2.3 Mb PDF]

January 2007: Ron Brunton, 'A Bombshell in the Centre of Perth': An Anthropologist Considers the Single Noongar Judgment. The native title claim over Perth has created a storm in indigenous and legal circles. Here is the first considered response to the evidence presented to Justice Wilcox. [1 Mb PDF]

September 2006: Stephanie Jarrett, Minority Rights Harm Aboriginal Women and Children. An analysis of how Aboriginal women's and children's individual rights to safety are compromised by minority or group rights. [110k PDF]

November 2005: Anthony Dillon, Separatism. An analysis of the assumptions behind, and the negative consequences of Separatism [80k PDF]

October 2005: Ray Hempel, Breaching the Wall. An analysis of the root causes of what is wrong with current indigenous policy. [80k PDF]