Production from marginal lands: indigenous commercial use of wild animals in northern Australia

Gorman, Julian; Whitehead, Peter; Griffiths, Anthony D.; Petheram, Lisa

doi:10.3843/susdev.15.3:7

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“…Key drivers of Indigenous disadvantage in remote regions of Australia are a lack of economic opportunity due to the low productivity of the lands Gorman et al, 2008), inadequate supply chain infrastructure (Dillon and Westbury, 2007) and the low level of participation in the few conventional mainstream economies (such as mining and tourism) currently available to Indigenous people (Pearson, 1999;Austin-Broos, 2011). The Indigenous labour force rate (employed plus unemployed looking for work) in remote regions of the NT was 49 per cent in 2011, with just 42 per cent actively participating in work (ABS, 2012).…”

Section: Economic Drivers Of Disadvantage In Remote Regionsmentioning

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Australian indigenous women’s seafood harvesting practices and prospects for integrating aquaculture

Fleming

Petheram

Stacey

2015

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

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Purpose -The purpose of this study is to explore Australian Indigenous women's customary use of marine resources and views on aquaculture as a development opportunity. The value participants placed on economic, social and cultural outcomes were explored, as were benefit sharing, governance and business considerations. Design/methodology/approach -Using a form of action research, workshops were conducted with a focus group of Indigenous women and interviews with men and women living on a remote island off northern Australia. Multimedia materials and a game were used to elicit a deeper understanding and facilitate discussion. Findings -Women preferred aquaculture options respectful of culture and accommodating cultural and family obligations, that engage young adults in meaningful work, improve access to sea country and provide local foods and support economic development. Participants placed significant dependence on their governance body to support businesses and expressed disparate views on profit sharing. Women continue to engage in customary harvesting and fishing but various limitations impact on this. Research limitations/implications -Conclusions based on one case study need to be confirmed in other communities. Future research should include a broader representation of youth and strategies to improve people's understanding of aquaculture operations and business management. Social implications -This research improves our understanding of Indigenous women's preferred economic development pathways and their advocacy role within the community. These findings are relevant for policy-makers, businesses, other Indigenous communities and researchers.The authors express their gratitude to the Warruwi community for their participation and support for this project. The authors thank colleagues for valuable feedback that improved the paper.Originality/value -This paper seeks to recognise and integrate Indigenous women's economic and cultural aspirations within development policy. Such a place-based, gender-based consultative process is generally lacking in the Australian Indigenous policy arena.

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Section: Economic Drivers Of Disadvantage In Remote Regionsmentioning

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Australian indigenous women’s seafood harvesting practices and prospects for integrating aquaculture

Fleming

Petheram

Stacey

2015

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“…(Di Baldassarre et al 2013). Thirdly, with regard to general categorizations of hunting and fishing effort, the aquatic-focused indigenous activity we characterize is largely undertaken without significant interaction with commercial markets for the proceeds (Gorman et al 2008), yet government policies and assessments clearly differentiate it from standard definitions of recreational activity (Henry and Lyle 2003).…”

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The persistence of subsistence: qualitative social-ecological modeling of indigenous aquatic hunting and gathering in tropical Australia

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ABSTRACT. Subsistence remains critical to indigenous people in settler-colonial states such as Australia, providing key foundations for indigenous identities and for wider state recognition. However, the drivers of contemporary subsistence are rarely fully articulated and analyzed in terms of likely changing conditions. Our interdisciplinary team combined past research experience gained from multiple sites with published literature to create two generalized qualitative models of the socio-cultural and environmental influences on indigenous aquatic subsistence in northern Australia. One model focused on the longer term (inter-year to generational) persistence of subsistence at the community scale, the other model on shorter term (day to season) drivers of effort by active individuals. The specification of driver definitions and relationships demonstrates the complexities of even generalized and materialist models of contemporary subsistence practices. The qualitative models were analyzed for emergent properties and for responses to plausible changes in key variables: access, habitat degradation, social security availability, and community dysfunction. Positive human community condition is shown to be critical to the long-term persistence of subsistence, but complex interactions of negative and positive drivers shape subsistence effort expended at the individual scale and within shorter time frames. Such models enable motivations, complexities, and the potential management and policy levers of significance to be identified, defined, causally related, and debated. The models can be used to augment future models of human-natural systems, be tested against case-specific field conditions and/or indigenous perspectives, and aid preliminary assessments of the effects on subsistence of changes in social and environmental conditions, including policy settings.

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“…One aspect of what is being investigated is the idea of contracting out NRM activities by Government. Opportunities for enterprise development are limited in communities on Aboriginal land because of their remoteness, lack of infrastructure, communal title of the land, and lack of training and entrepreneurial skills [43,45]. Activities involving utilisation of wild plants and animals present commercial opportunities for Aboriginal people because they make good use of existing skills and interests and many Aboriginal communities already manage a substantial customary economy based on wildlife [46,47].…”

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Managing the landscapes of the Australian Northern Territory for sustainability: Visions, issues and strategies for successful planning

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2010

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Production from marginal lands: indigenous commercial use of wild animals in northern Australia

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Australian indigenous women’s seafood harvesting practices and prospects for integrating aquaculture

Australian indigenous women’s seafood harvesting practices and prospects for integrating aquaculture

The persistence of subsistence: qualitative social-ecological modeling of indigenous aquatic hunting and gathering in tropical Australia

Managing the landscapes of the Australian Northern Territory for sustainability: Visions, issues and strategies for successful planning

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