This book focuses on Indigenous self-determined and community-owned responses to complex socioeconomic and political challenges in Australia, and explores Indigenous policy development and policy expertise. It critically considers current practices and issues central to policy change and Indigenous futures. The book foregrounds the resurgence that is taking place in Indigenous governing and policy-making, providing case studies of local and community-based policy development and implementation. The chapters highlight new Australian work on what is an international phenomenon.
This book brings together senior and early career political scientists and policy scholars, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars working on problems of Indigenous policy and governance.
Author(s): Nikki Moodie, Sarah Maddison
Series: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, 4
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 151
City: Singapore
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
1 Introduction: Public Policy and Indigenous Futures
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Dawn of a New Era?
1.3 Policy and the Future
References
2 Indigenous Public Policy Futures: A Manifesto for Relationalist Public Administration
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Relational Balance
2.3 (Re-)Applying Aboriginal Principles
2.4 From Civilisational Culture to Civilisational State?
2.5 Conclusion
References
3 Success and Failure in Australian Indigenous Policy: Moral Dynamics and Rhetorical Registers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Policy Theory: Three Complementary Accounts, Four Forceful Themes in Tension
3.3 Predictable Failure: Indigenous Employment and Incomes Policy Under the Hawke Labor Government
3.4 A Convenient Change of Discourse: Failure and Change Under the Late Howard Governments
3.5 Stories of Success: An Unexpected Reaction
3.6 Challenging and Calming Rhetorical Registers: New and Established Participants
3.7 Established Participants and the Challenging Register: More Complex Dynamics
3.8 Beyond Predictable Failure in Responding to Rudd’s Closing the Gap: Competing Principles and Alternative Idioms
3.9 Concluding Comments
References
4 Caring for Country as Deliberative Policymaking
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Mabo and Native Title as the Right to Self-government
4.3 Native Title as Self-government
4.4 Caring for Country: A Policy Context Overview
4.5 Caring for Country as an Example of Deliberative Policymaking
4.6 Conclusion
References
5 Future-Proofing Indigenous Self-Determination in Health: Goals, Tactics, and Achievements of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations in New South Wales, Australia
5.1 Introduction
5.2 What Are ACCHOs?
5.3 Enduring Financial Insecurity
5.4 Ethics, Methodology, Method
5.5 ACCHOs’ Achievements in Indigenous Health
5.6 Data Analysis and Findings
5.6.1 Becoming Medicare Machines
5.6.2 Mitigating Financial Risk
5.6.3 Two-Way Learning: Sharing Knowledge and Resources
5.6.4 Re-structuring ACCHOs Around Business Principles
5.7 Discussion: Defending Self-determination in Health
5.7.1 The Teleological Argument: Self-determination as a Way of Improving Indigenous Health
5.8 Conclusion: Self-determination as an End in Itself
References
6 Stepping Stones to Indigenous Futures: Rethinking Precarity in Indigenous Education and Work
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Closing the Gap
6.3 Precarity in Work and Education
6.4 Conclusion
References
7 Treaty as a Pathway to Indigenous Controlled Policy: Making Space, Partnering, and Honouring New Relationships
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Making Space: There Are Other Authorities on This Land
7.3 Partnering: Moving from Control to Cooperation Through Cooperative Governance
7.4 Honouring: Upholding Treaty Relationships in Policy-Making
7.5 Conclusion
References
8 Yes, The Time Is Now: Indigenous Nation Policy Making for Self-determined Futures
8.1 Introduction
8.2 What Is Indigenous Nation Building?
8.3 Three Indigenous Nation Building Stories From Australia
8.3.1 The Gunditjmara People
8.3.2 Gugu Badhun Nation
8.3.3 Wiradjuri Nation
8.4 Indigenous Nation Building and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nation Policy
8.5 Concluding Thoughts
References
