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Social entrepreneurs play an important role in alleviating poverty. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

July 5, 2023

Businesses that address social or environmental problems often struggle to survive: 3 things that can help them

Willie Tafadzwa Chinyamurindi, University of Fort Hare; Motshedisi Mathibe, University of Pretoria, and Progress Hove-Sibanda, Nelson Mandela University

Social enterprises need to be proactive in improving their internal processes and structures. They also need to share essential information.

Community isn’t just important for social recovery from the pandemic — it also provides an important framework for recovering economically. (Shutterstock)

November 6, 2022

Community-based economic development is the key to a strong pandemic recovery

Audrey Jamal, University of Guelph

Community wealth building is a direct response to extractive policies and aims to build an economy on the principles of local ownership and control of assets.

August 6, 2021

To enable healing, there’s a more effective way to Close the Gap in employment in remote Australia

Zoe Staines, The University of Queensland; Elise Klein, Australian National University; Francis Markham, Australian National University, and Jon Altman, Australian National University

Mass unemployment is not a result of people choosing to remain on welfare. Attempts to close the “employment gap” ignore the real cause: unemployment is structural, not behavioural.

Michael Nelson’s Tjakamarra’s Five Stories, which sold for A$687,877 at Sothebys in London in 2016. SOTHEBY'S LONDON

March 19, 2020

The other Indigenous coronavirus crisis: disappearing income from art

Jon Altman, Australian National University and Francis Markham, Australian National University

In some communities, art sales account for 15% of Indigenous income. They are vanishing with the coronavirus, making conditions worse.

In his first major policy address, Ken Wyatt noted how previous governments have failed Indigenous Australians with a ‘top-down, command and control approach.’ Rohan Thomson/AAP

July 11, 2019

Listening with ‘our ears and our eyes’: Ken Wyatt’s big promises on Indigenous affairs

Eddie Synot, Griffith University

Ken Wyatt’s promise of a referendum on constitutional recognition within three years marks a dramatic shift from the Turnbull government’s rejection of the Uluru Statement of the Heart.

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