jon altman centre for aboriginal economic policy research the australian national university...
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Jon Altman
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
The Australian National University
Thinking Indigenous economy:A brief survey 1964 to 2014
AIATSIS ConferenceBreaking the Barriers in Indigenous Research and
Thinking
Indigenous census counts, 1971-2011
1971 1976 1981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006 20110
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
115,953
160,915159,897
227,645
265,459
352,970
410,003
455,031
548,370
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Variable 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Unemployment rate (% labour force) 9.0 24.6 30.8 20.0 17.1
Employment to population ratio (% adults) 42.0 35.7 37.1 41.7 44.2
Private-sector employment (% adults) 29.7 17.2 20.5 n.a. 31.8
Labour force participation rate (% adults) 46.1 47.3 53.5 52.1 53.3
Median weekly personal income ($A 2011) n.a. 250 282 284 362
Socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians, 1971-2011
Variable 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Unemployment rate (% labour force) 5.63 4.24 2.70 2.78 3.17
Employment to population ratio (% adults) 0.73 0.61 0.66 0.71 0.71
Private-sector employment (% adults) 0.65 0.42 0.51 n.a. 0.62
Labour force participation rate (% adults) 0.78 0.77 0.84 0.82 0.81
Median weekly personal income ($A 2011) n.a. 0.55 0.62 0.56 0.62
Ratio of Indigenous to non-Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes, 1971-2011
1971 1976 1981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006 20110.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0
Employment to population ratio (% adults)Private-sector employment (% adults)Labour force participation rate (% adults)Median weekly personal income ($A 2011)
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Ratio of Indigenous to non-Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes, 1971-2011
Indigenous dispossession and legal repossession
Land rights and ownership under three tenures
Distribution of Indigenous population
Distribution of Discrete Indigenous Communities
Land rights, ownership and registered claims
Estimated Indigenous Population
Estimated Non-Indigenous population
% of region Indigenous
% of total Indigenous population
Area (% Australia)
Native title (exclusive possession) 14,308 3,093 82% 2% 9%
Land rights lands, 2013 60,233 13,939 81% 9% 13%
Native title (non-exclusive possession) 2,617 12,438 17% 0% 9%
Registered claims (excluding native title or land rights lands)
195,915 5,866,930 3% 30% 39%
Any of the above 273,073 5,896,401 4% 41% 70%
Australia 660,903 21,423,504 3% 100% 100%
Indigenous population and interests in land
The Hybrid Economy