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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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