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Mapping Indigenous educational participation
No full textNic Biddle, Boyd Hunter, and Jerry Schwab examine the distribution of Indigenous education participation across Australia, and present the most important factors explaining these rates
Taming the social capital Hydra? Indigenous poverty, social capital theory and measurement
Full text linkBoyd Hunter outlines the conceptual and empirical issues that affect the measurement of social capital, and discusses some possible roles for social capital in describing Indigenous poverty. He advocates a model of social capital that focuses on the structure of social networks to limit the scope for misunderstanding arising from cross-cultural differences in the views about the social, cultural and institutional contexts of such networks. Boyd Hunter outlines the conceptual and empirical issues that affect the measurement of social capital, and discusses some possible roles for social capital in describing Indigenous poverty. He advocates a model of social capital that focuses on the structure of social networks to limit the scope for misunderstanding arising from cross-cultural differences in the views about the social, cultural and institutional contexts of such networks
Factors associated with internal migration for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
No full textEnhancing migration and mobility has been put forward as a solution to Indigenous disadvantage in Australia. To assess the feasibility of this suggestion, Nicholas Biddle and Boyd Hunter examine patterns of migration and factors associated with both the decision to move and the choice of destination. The results suggest that Indigenous Australians are less responsive to local economic factors than other Australians, and social and cultural factors appear to play a particularly significant role in their decision making
Patterns of Indigenous job search activity
Full text linkBoyd Hunter and Matthew Gray provide the first ever baseline of data on the job search behaviour of Indigenous job seekers and how it compares to the job search of non-Indigenous job seekers, with clear differences between these groups. Indigenous Australians rely disproportionately on friends and relatives as a source of information about jobs, although their networks tend to have fewer employed members and therefore are of less value than those of non-Indigenous job seekers. Non-Indigenous job seekers are more likely to use more proactive search methods than are Indigenous job seekers
Monitoring 'practical' reconciliation
No full textJon Altman and Boyd Hunter examine changes in the socioeconomic status of Indigenous Australians during 1991-2001, a period that closely matches \u27the reconciliation decade\u27 using census data. Comparisons are made both of change in absolute wellbeing for the total Indigenous population, and of relative wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in five broad categories - employment, education, income, housing and health. The \u27scorecard\u27 shows that, in absolute terms, it is difficult to differentiate the performance of governments pre- and post-1996. But in relative terms - when comparing the relative wellbeing of Indigenous people as a whole with all other Australians - there is some disparity between the two periods, with the early period 1991-96 clearly outperforming the more recent period. While practical reconciliation forms the rhetorical basis for Indigenous policy development since 1996, there is no evidence that the Howard governments have delivered better outcomes for Indigenous Australians than their predecessors despite a period of rapid economic growth at the national level. It is of particular concern that some of the relative gains made between 1991 and 1996 appear to have been offset by the relatively poor performance of Indigenous outcomes between 1996 and 2001
Indigenous socioeconomic change 1971-2001: a historical perspective
Full text linkJon Altman, Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle examine trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using four Censuses of Population and Housing carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. Outcomes for Indigenous Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and the ratios between the two are reported, and it is conclude that there has been steady, although not spectacular improvement in outcomes over time
Less is More: Reflections on the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Reports Boyd Hunter and Nikki Stephenson, Topical Issues Paper 1/2013
No full textThis Topical Issue is based upon a submission to the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) review
of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Reports
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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