Public Policy and Indigenous Futures

Associate Professor Nikki Moodie is a Gomeroi(G/Kamilaroi) woman and sociologist based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She is the current Program Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, a 20-year philanthropic program to support Indigenous-led social change across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Sarah Maddison is Director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, where she is also Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences.

Part 1 Interrogating Indigenous affairs policy.- Chapter 1: Indigenous public policy in global context.- Chapter 2: Rethinking Indigenous representation in Indigenous affairs.- Chapter 3: Rhetorical registers and the moral dynamics of failure and success in Australian Indigenous policy.- Chapter 4: Thinking policy through Indigenous knowledge.-  Chapter 5: Changing the policy agenda from inside the party room: Indigenous knowledge and expertise in the Labor Party’s First Nations Caucus.- Chapter 6: Black swans make better policy.- Chapter 6: Black swans make better policy.- Part 3 Nation building and resurgence: An alternative to policy?.- Chapter 7: Nation-building in Australia.- Chapter 8: Bureaucracy and sovereignty in contemporary Indigenous policy.- Part 4 Policy implications for communities.- Chapter 9: Rematriation and reconnection: Decolonising the colonial archive for the Gomeroi diaspora.- Chapter 10: Treaty as pathway to Indigenous controlled policy.- Chapter 11: Self-determination & education policy.