The Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Indigenous population project

• Reach:

  National

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

Recognising that the structural circumstances facing Indigenous populations are locationally dispersed in this way, The Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (MCATSIA) has established an enhanced research capacity at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research over three years to further explore the dynamics and regional geography of Indigenous population and socioeconomic change.

This research activity commenced in late 2007 and is constructed around four discrete yet overlapping projects:

• a detailed regional analysis of relative and absolute change in Indigenous social indicators
• an assessment of social and spatial mobility among Indigenous metropolitan populations
• case-study analyses of multiple disadvantage in select city neighbourhoods and regional centres
• the development of conceptual and methodological approaches to the measurement of short term mobility.

Contacts

Centre Administrator
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Hanna Neumann Building #21
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Ph:(02) 6125 0587
Fax:(02) 6125 9730
E-mail: peopleoncountry@anu.edu.au

Links

• View information: The Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Indigenous population project
• View website: The Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research