Bureaucratic Occupation

Julie Lahn is an anthropologist and Fellow in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Her research engages First Nations civil/public servant insights into government bureaucracies including (with Samantha Faulkner) 'Navigating to Senior Leadership in the Australian Public Service: Identifying barriers and enablers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in APS employment' (CAEPR, 2018). She was a researcher and educator in ANU's Centre for Aboriginal and Economic Policy Research from 2006 to 2023.

Elizabeth Strakosch is a lecturer in public policy and politics at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and co-director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research. She is the author of Neoliberal Indigenous Policy: Settler Colonialism and the 'Post-Welfare' State (Palgrave, 2015). She is currently an Australian Research Council Early Career Research Fellow. From 2013 to 2022 she worked as a senior lecturer in policy at the University of Queensland.

Patrick Sullivan is Professor at Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome, and Honorary Professor at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra. A political anthropologist, Professor Sullivan is the author of All Free Man Now: Culture, Community and Politics in the Kimberley Region North Western Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press, 1996) and Belonging Together: Dealing with the Politics of Disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Policy (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011). He was Project Leader of the ARC Discovery Project: Reciprocal Accountability and Public Value in Aboriginal Organisations (DP160102250).

Part One: Bureaucracy as Structure.- Australian Indigenous Policy at the Intersection of Bureaucracy, Colonialism, Neoliberalism and Race.- Mending Bureaucracy's Splintered Soul: Cultural Subsidiarity for Indigenous Organisations.- terra nullius Social Policy.- Love, Moral Intensity and Governmentality: Representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children in Public Policy.- 'Staying with the State': Prefiguring Capacities for Change within Indigenous Social policy.- Part Two: Bureaucracy as Institution.- Bureaucrats Managing the Ambiguities of Reform: a Case Study from Remote Indigenous Policy.- Authenticated Policy Knowledge: an Ethnographic Account of Evidence Use in Indigenous Health Policy.- Administrative Reform as Bureaucratic Violence in the Australian Northern Territory.- 'Ask Aboriginal People Yourself': Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Public Servants and the Problem of Substitution.- Revisioning Bureaucracy through First Nations Public Servant Stewardship.- Part Three: Bureaucracy as Encounter.- Bureaucratised Relationships: Contracting for Change.- Urban First Nations Organisations and the Effects of New Funding Rationalities and Technologies of Governing in the New Public Management Era.- The Inclusion and Control of Indigenous Organisations in the Delivery of Remote Employment Services.- Making the Intangible Count? Metrification of the Value of Culture.- Understanding and Transforming Indigenous Policy Evaluation.