Journal article
Australian Indigenous Employment Disadvantage: What, why and where to from here?
Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Vol.5(2), pp.1-25
2001
Abstract
This paper outlines the extent of current Indigenous employment disadvantage in Australia, compares this to the situation that has been evident over the past three decades, critiques the nature of current understanding of the problem and identifies issues which urgently require further research. There is an implicit assumption in much that has been written on this issue that Indigenous disadvantage is in some way attributable to characteristics inherent in Indigenous people rather than to factors outside their control. In fact, current economic disadvantage of Indigenous Australians follows on from almost two hundred years of discriminatory law and practice. This paper explores the nature and extent of the on-going effects of this past unequal treatment, in order to establish the extent of the issues, to identify inadequacies in current attempts to explain this situation and to define the larger research problem which needs to be addressed. It concludes that any explanation based almost exclusively on quantitative data cannot explain the qualitative reasons why such a situation of inequity developed and has been maintained over a long period.
Details
- Title
- Australian Indigenous Employment Disadvantage: What, why and where to from here?
- Authors
- Rae Norris (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Business
- Publication details
- Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Vol.5(2), pp.1-25
- Publisher
- Southern Cross University, Centre for Policy Research
- Date published
- 2001
- ISSN
- 1325-2224
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2001 The Authors. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; School of Health - Public Health
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99447759202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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