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29. Department of Sustainability, Environment,
Water, Population and Communities (2012),
‘Raukkan rangers, South Australia’, Working
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.
30. Noel Pearson (2000), Our right to take
responsibility, Cairns: Noel Pearson and
Associates.
31. Amartya Sen (1999), Development as freedom
(1st edn), New York: Oxford University Press.
32. KPMG (2015), Impact evaluation of Jawun,
unpublished report, p. 128.
33. Ibid., pp. 129–30.
34. Noel Pearson, Bernardine Denigan and Jan
Götesson (2009), ‘The most important reform’,
position paper, Cairns: Cape York Partnerships.
35. Quoted in Jamie Walker (2017), ‘No retreat for
Noel Pearson on Direct Instruction teaching
program’, The Australian, 12 August, accessible at
36. KPMG (2015), Impact evaluation of Jawun,
unpublished report, p. 136.
37. Miriam Jorgensen and Alison Vivian, ‘Challenging
Indigenous Australia Inc: Indigenous community
political governance’, cited in Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
(2014), Social justice and native title report 2014,
Canberra: Australian Human Rights Commission.
38. The Ngarrindjeri Nation Yarluwar-Ruwe Plan
is accessible at
39. Sean Gordon (2015), ‘Aboriginal leaders feel
powerless when dealing with the government’,
The Australian, 31 October, accessible at
.
40. KPMG (2015), Impact evaluation of Jawun,
unpublished report, p. 121.
41. Malcolm Turnbull (2017), ‘Closing the Gap Report
Statement to Parliament’, 14 February, accessible
at
42. Malcom Turnbull (2017), ‘Prime Minister’s
introduction: Working with Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people for a better Australia’, in
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
(2017), Closing the Gap: Prime Minister’s report
2017, p. 5, accessible at
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43. Internal calculation based on Jawun alumni
database. Jawun tracks the number of secondees
dedicated to Empowered Communities and how
many weeks of time each one gives.
44. Jawun alumni database.
45. Empowered Communities (2017), ‘Our 2017
report’, West Kimberley regional report, p. 2,
accessible at
.
46. Jawun alumni database.
47. Ibid.
48. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) defines social capital
as ‘networks together with shared norms, values
and understandings that facilitate co-operation
within or among groups’. See OECD (2001), The
well-being of nations: the role of human and
social capital, Paris: OECD, p. 41.
49. Empowered Communities (2015), Empowered
Communities: empowered peoples: design
report, p. 22.
50. Every year since 2009, the Kaiela Institute has
hosted (with the University of Melbourne) the
annual Dungala Kaiela Oration. A prominent
speaker addresses themes of climate change,
culture, economics and regional development,
health and society, and legal issues. This now
high-profile event celebrates Indigenous cultural
identity, has created a shared vision for Goulburn
Murray, and has built bridges to promote social
and economic development. Each year, Jawun
builds a Goulburn Murray Executive Visit around
the oration. For more information, see http://
.
51. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (2017), ‘Elevate
Reconciliation Action Plan FY2017–FY2019’,
accessible at
.
52. Sean Gordon and Liz Forsyth in KPMG (2016),
Igniting the Indigenous economy, p. 35.
53. See
54. Empowered Communities (2015), Empowered
Communities: empowered peoples: design
report, p. 37.
55. Ibid., p. 19.
56. Uluru Statement from the Heart, statement
from the First Nations National Constitutional
Convention, 26 May 2017, accessible at
.
57. Rachel Perkins (2017), ‘Indigenous declaration
is an honest claim from the heart of our
nation’, The Australian, 29 May, accessible at
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