Learn about the challenges and monetary drivers in Remote Aboriginal Communities, the historical influences and healthy ways forward to include local Aboriginal people in economic development. Learning pathways are a series of articles and other content that help you to…
Learning Pathways bring together content from across our learning portal with other free online resources to create short courses for you to follow. This is the first of many pathways we are working on to guide you through the growing…
Hope for Health is the first step towards a vision for a health retreat and coaching solution in Arnhem Land, initiated by a movement of Local Ladies. So why will this work where others have failed to change the poor health status of Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land. Read to find out.
As I mentioned previously, based on our nine years of work in business development with Indigenous families, I think there are four main points that define the process of rebuilding sustainable economies in remote Indigenous communities: A local economy grows…
Personnel in communities who put people centered processes before policy, bureaucratic expectations, and achievement, have better local engagement, and mobilise change in the long term. The flip side is, the impact of such people seems to fade before the devastation created by “the system”.
Did you know Bolivia has been free of McDonald’s restaurants for 10 years? When I discovered this fact, my first thought was that the government must have passed legislation to enforce this. However, I was then excited to learn that…
Based on our nine years of work in business development with Indigenous families, I think there are 5 main points that define the process of rebuilding sustainable economies in remote Indigenous communities. A local economy grows from personal motivation and…
As I mentioned previously, based on our nine years of work in business development with Indigenous families, I think there are five main points that define the process of rebuilding sustainable economies in remote Indigenous communities. A local economy grows from…
In Part 3 of this series on the economics of remote communities, we discussed how personal motivation must be harnessed to challenge welfare dependency and drive locally controlled economic growth. But how is such motivation harnessed and supported? 2. Supporting…
In the previous articles we saw that while is it wrong to say that Indigenous people make no contribution to their local economy, the monetary economy of remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory today is a false economy. It…
