Brittany Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 103561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brittany Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brittany |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0362-4882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Taking the long view: Indigenous employment 1981–2021
This paper presents an analysis of Indigenous employment trends in Australia from 1981 to 2021, using nine iterations of 5-yearly Census data. It offers the most consistent long-term estimates available and situates these trends within broader shifts in the Australian labour market. Three key findings emerge. First, the overall increase in Indigenous employment over the 40-year period is primarily driven by the substantial rise in employment amon…
Indigenous workplace policies: The crucial role of Indigenous management
Indigenous employment is a critical policy area in Australia, with businesses adopting targeted workplace and recruitment practices to increase their levels of Indigenous employment. However, non-Indigenous-owned Australian businesses are still struggling to meet their Indigenous employment targets, and the national gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous employment rates remains wide. Despite the increased popularity of Indigenous-specific wor…
Educational Mismatch and the Indigenous Labour Market: A Longitudinal Analysis
It's Self‐Determination . Blackfullas Making Right Decisions for Blackfullas”: Why Indigenous‐owned businesses create better Indigenous employment outcomes
Previous research demonstrates that businesses that are Indigenous‐owned are far more likely to employ Indigenous people than non‐Indigenous‐owned businesses (Hunter, 2015). The majority of the literature on Indigenous employment uses a deficit discourse, describing factors that prevent or exclude Indigenous people from non‐Indigenous‐owned organisations. There is markedly less literature using a strength‐based approach, detailing how Indigenous‐…
Expectations, economics, and externalities of the Indigenous business sector
The Indigenous business sector in Australia is a facilitator of Indigenous economic self-determination, community development, the utilisation of Indigenous knowledge, and the creation of enhanced employment opportunities for Indigenous people.Social impact initiatives and social entrepreneurship are a hallmark of many Indigenous businesses.Supply Nation (2018) found that for every dollar of revenue, Supply Nation Certified Businesses created an …
The importance of understanding Indigenous employment in the Indigenous business sector
Indigenous employment has been the subject of numerous policies in Australia, with governments aiming to increase the workforce participation rate amongst Indigenous people in recent years. Indigenous‐owned businesses, formally defined as businesses that are at least 50% Indigenous‐owned, have been demonstrated in previous research to maintain substantially higher levels of proportional Indigenous employment than non‐Indigenous businesses. This s…
The social and economic impacts of drought
Although the environmental and economic impacts of drought have been widely studied, few large‐scale studies have examined the broader social impacts of drought. To fill this knowledge gap, the Australian Institute of Family Studies undertook the Regional and Rural Families Survey in 2007, when a significant part of Australia was experiencing a severe drought. This paper analyses that survey to measure the extent to which drought affects a range …
Racial Disparities in Heart Disease Mortality in the 50 Largest U.S. Cities
Estimating the A boriginal Population in Early Colonial A ustralia: The Role of Chickenpox Reconsidered
N oel B utlin radically altered the debate about the pre‐colonial A boriginal population when he provided a set of hypothetical demographic scenarios, which nonetheless were both grounded in economic theory or human ecological considerations and broadly consistent with what we know about the historical record. This research builds on B utlin's legacy by exploring how his scenarios are consistent with both the medical understandings of the infecti…
The Economic Impact of the Mining Boom on I ndigenous and Non‐ I ndigenous A ustralians
Many mining operations are on or near I ndigenous land, and the strong level of investment during the recent mining boom may have disproportionately affected I ndigenous communities. This article examines changes in local I ndigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘resource curse’ for I ndigenous communities and the A ustralian population at large. Census data are used to show the mining boom has improved employmen…
Looking back to look forward: The future of public debate of social policy in Australia
The Australian Journal of Social Issues is the sole Australian journal concerned with issues of social policy and social justice. Since its first issue in 1961, the AJSI has published a wealth of peer-reviewed scholarship dealing with crucial socialpolicy issues potentially affecting the welfare of Australian citizens. As editors our fundamental vision is to continue to strengthen the journal as a key venue for robust multidisciplinary analysis o…
The Impact of Drought on Mental Health in Rural and Regional Australia
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour.…
Continuity and change in the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme (CDEP)
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an example of an Indigenous‐specific program that combines community development and labour market program elements. This paper describes the nature of CDEP employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who were employed outside of CDEP, unemplo…
The Use of Social Surveys to Measure Drought and the Impact of Drought
The labour supply of Indigenous Australian females: The effects of fertility and interactions with the justice system
Undercounts in Offender Data and Closing the Gap Between Indigenous and Other Australians
Closing the gaps between Indigenous and other Australian outcomes is a central concern of contemporary policy. The Re‐Offending Database (ROD), which has been collated by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), offers a unique opportunity to analyse data quality issues in an important source of administrative data for Indigenous people. This paper provides several independent estimates of the population of Indigenous…
Explaining Social exclusion: Towards Social Inclusion for Indigenous Australians
Current policy often focuses on ‘Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage’ by simultaneously addressing multiple deficits that many Indigenous people experience relative to other Australians. International literature often frames such issues in terms of the contested concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion. This paper attempts to analyse what Indigenous social inclusion might look like in a plural society such as Australia. In addition to con…
Prospects for ‘Closing the Gap’ in Socioeconomic Outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Practical reconciliation’ and more recently ‘closing the gap’ have been put forward as frameworks on which to base and evaluate policies to address Indigenous disadvantage. This paper analyses national‐level census‐based data to examine trends in Indigenous wellbeing since 1971. There has been steady improvement in most socioeconomic outcomes in the last 35 years; a finding at odds with the current discourse of failure. Evidence of convergence be…
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes: A focus on the 2002 Natsiss
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes ix Comparison of education and training data collected in NATSIS
A Historical Perspective on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes in Australia, 1971-2001
Current debate in Indigenous affairs in Australia often involves the assertion that the last 30 years has been a period of policy failure. This article examines trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using census data. Overall, there has been steady, although not spectacular improvement in outcomes over time. These improvements are especially marked for education, which…
The labour market dynamics of Indigenous Australians
To date, the analysis of the reasons for the labour market disadvantage of Indigenous Australians has been constrained by the absence of longitudinal data on labour force status. This article uses the only extant large-scale longitudinal survey of the labour force outcomes of Indigenous Australians to analyse both labour market dynamics and the determinants of labour market success. The analysis reveals high rates of movements between labour forc…
Trends in neighbourhood inequality of Australian, Canadian, and United States of America cities since the 1970s
It is important to locate recent increases in neighbourhood inequality and economic segregation of Australian cities within the international debate about increasing urban disparities. The present article uses standard inequality techniques to show that neighbourhood inequality is increasing within Australian, Canadian, and USA cities. While the labour market status of people in poor neighbourhoods is similar for Australia and the USA, there is a…
Does Crime Affect Employment Status? The Case of Indigenous Australians
A significant cost for individuals who have contact with the criminal justice system is the potential effect on employment status. In this study the effect of arrest on the employment status of indigenous Australians is examined using data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey. Having been arrested is found to reduce the probability of employment. The size of the effect is estimated to be between 10 % and 20 % for ma…
The Impact of Drought on Mental Health in Rural and Regional Australia
Explaining Social exclusion: Towards Social Inclusion for Indigenous Australians
Current policy often focuses on ‘Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage’ by simultaneously addressing multiple deficits that many Indigenous people experience relative to other Australians. International literature often frames such issues in terms of the contested concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion. This paper attempts to analyse what Indigenous social inclusion might look like in a plural society such as Australia. In addition to con…
The Use of Social Surveys to Measure Drought and the Impact of Drought
Undercounts in Offender Data and Closing the Gap Between Indigenous and Other Australians
Closing the gaps between Indigenous and other Australian outcomes is a central concern of contemporary policy. The Re‐Offending Database (ROD), which has been collated by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), offers a unique opportunity to analyse data quality issues in an important source of administrative data for Indigenous people. This paper provides several independent estimates of the population of Indigenous…
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes: A focus on the 2002 Natsiss
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes ix Comparison of education and training data collected in NATSIS
The labour market dynamics of Indigenous Australians
To date, the analysis of the reasons for the labour market disadvantage of Indigenous Australians has been constrained by the absence of longitudinal data on labour force status. This article uses the only extant large-scale longitudinal survey of the labour force outcomes of Indigenous Australians to analyse both labour market dynamics and the determinants of labour market success. The analysis reveals high rates of movements between labour forc…
Does Crime Affect Employment Status? The Case of Indigenous Australians
A significant cost for individuals who have contact with the criminal justice system is the potential effect on employment status. In this study the effect of arrest on the employment status of indigenous Australians is examined using data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey. Having been arrested is found to reduce the probability of employment. The size of the effect is estimated to be between 10 % and 20 % for ma…
Racial Disparities in Heart Disease Mortality in the 50 Largest U.S. Cities
The importance of understanding Indigenous employment in the Indigenous business sector
Indigenous employment has been the subject of numerous policies in Australia, with governments aiming to increase the workforce participation rate amongst Indigenous people in recent years. Indigenous‐owned businesses, formally defined as businesses that are at least 50% Indigenous‐owned, have been demonstrated in previous research to maintain substantially higher levels of proportional Indigenous employment than non‐Indigenous businesses. This s…
The Economic Impact of the Mining Boom on I ndigenous and Non‐ I ndigenous A ustralians
Many mining operations are on or near I ndigenous land, and the strong level of investment during the recent mining boom may have disproportionately affected I ndigenous communities. This article examines changes in local I ndigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘resource curse’ for I ndigenous communities and the A ustralian population at large. Census data are used to show the mining boom has improved employmen…
Continuity and change in the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme (CDEP)
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an example of an Indigenous‐specific program that combines community development and labour market program elements. This paper describes the nature of CDEP employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who were employed outside of CDEP, unemplo…
The labour supply of Indigenous Australian females: The effects of fertility and interactions with the justice system
Does Crime Affect Employment Status? The Case of Indigenous Australians
A significant cost for individuals who have contact with the criminal justice system is the potential effect on employment status. In this study the effect of arrest on the employment status of indigenous Australians is examined using data from the 1994 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey. Having been arrested is found to reduce the probability of employment. The size of the effect is estimated to be between 10 % and 20 % for ma…
Trends in neighbourhood inequality of Australian, Canadian, and United States of America cities since the 1970s
It is important to locate recent increases in neighbourhood inequality and economic segregation of Australian cities within the international debate about increasing urban disparities. The present article uses standard inequality techniques to show that neighbourhood inequality is increasing within Australian, Canadian, and USA cities. While the labour market status of people in poor neighbourhoods is similar for Australia and the USA, there is a…
A Historical Perspective on Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes in Australia, 1971-2001
Current debate in Indigenous affairs in Australia often involves the assertion that the last 30 years has been a period of policy failure. This article examines trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using census data. Overall, there has been steady, although not spectacular improvement in outcomes over time. These improvements are especially marked for education, which…
The labour market dynamics of Indigenous Australians
To date, the analysis of the reasons for the labour market disadvantage of Indigenous Australians has been constrained by the absence of longitudinal data on labour force status. This article uses the only extant large-scale longitudinal survey of the labour force outcomes of Indigenous Australians to analyse both labour market dynamics and the determinants of labour market success. The analysis reveals high rates of movements between labour forc…
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes: A focus on the 2002 Natsiss
Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes ix Comparison of education and training data collected in NATSIS
Prospects for ‘Closing the Gap’ in Socioeconomic Outcomes for Indigenous Australians
Practical reconciliation’ and more recently ‘closing the gap’ have been put forward as frameworks on which to base and evaluate policies to address Indigenous disadvantage. This paper analyses national‐level census‐based data to examine trends in Indigenous wellbeing since 1971. There has been steady improvement in most socioeconomic outcomes in the last 35 years; a finding at odds with the current discourse of failure. Evidence of convergence be…
Explaining Social exclusion: Towards Social Inclusion for Indigenous Australians
Current policy often focuses on ‘Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage’ by simultaneously addressing multiple deficits that many Indigenous people experience relative to other Australians. International literature often frames such issues in terms of the contested concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion. This paper attempts to analyse what Indigenous social inclusion might look like in a plural society such as Australia. In addition to con…
Undercounts in Offender Data and Closing the Gap Between Indigenous and Other Australians
Closing the gaps between Indigenous and other Australian outcomes is a central concern of contemporary policy. The Re‐Offending Database (ROD), which has been collated by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), offers a unique opportunity to analyse data quality issues in an important source of administrative data for Indigenous people. This paper provides several independent estimates of the population of Indigenous…
The labour supply of Indigenous Australian females: The effects of fertility and interactions with the justice system
Continuity and change in the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme (CDEP)
The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme is an example of an Indigenous‐specific program that combines community development and labour market program elements. This paper describes the nature of CDEP employment in 2008 and the extent to which it changed between 1994 and 2008. The paper also compares a selection of economic and social outcomes of CDEP participants with those of persons who were employed outside of CDEP, unemplo…
The Use of Social Surveys to Measure Drought and the Impact of Drought
The Cambridge Economic History of Australia
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour.…
Estimating the A boriginal Population in Early Colonial A ustralia: The Role of Chickenpox Reconsidered
N oel B utlin radically altered the debate about the pre‐colonial A boriginal population when he provided a set of hypothetical demographic scenarios, which nonetheless were both grounded in economic theory or human ecological considerations and broadly consistent with what we know about the historical record. This research builds on B utlin's legacy by exploring how his scenarios are consistent with both the medical understandings of the infecti…
The Economic Impact of the Mining Boom on I ndigenous and Non‐ I ndigenous A ustralians
Many mining operations are on or near I ndigenous land, and the strong level of investment during the recent mining boom may have disproportionately affected I ndigenous communities. This article examines changes in local I ndigenous employment, income and housing costs to identify any localised ‘resource curse’ for I ndigenous communities and the A ustralian population at large. Census data are used to show the mining boom has improved employmen…
Looking back to look forward: The future of public debate of social policy in Australia
The Australian Journal of Social Issues is the sole Australian journal concerned with issues of social policy and social justice. Since its first issue in 1961, the AJSI has published a wealth of peer-reviewed scholarship dealing with crucial socialpolicy issues potentially affecting the welfare of Australian citizens. As editors our fundamental vision is to continue to strengthen the journal as a key venue for robust multidisciplinary analysis o…
The Impact of Drought on Mental Health in Rural and Regional Australia
Racial Disparities in Heart Disease Mortality in the 50 Largest U.S. Cities
The social and economic impacts of drought
Although the environmental and economic impacts of drought have been widely studied, few large‐scale studies have examined the broader social impacts of drought. To fill this knowledge gap, the Australian Institute of Family Studies undertook the Regional and Rural Families Survey in 2007, when a significant part of Australia was experiencing a severe drought. This paper analyses that survey to measure the extent to which drought affects a range …
Expectations, economics, and externalities of the Indigenous business sector
The Indigenous business sector in Australia is a facilitator of Indigenous economic self-determination, community development, the utilisation of Indigenous knowledge, and the creation of enhanced employment opportunities for Indigenous people.Social impact initiatives and social entrepreneurship are a hallmark of many Indigenous businesses.Supply Nation (2018) found that for every dollar of revenue, Supply Nation Certified Businesses created an …
The importance of understanding Indigenous employment in the Indigenous business sector
Indigenous employment has been the subject of numerous policies in Australia, with governments aiming to increase the workforce participation rate amongst Indigenous people in recent years. Indigenous‐owned businesses, formally defined as businesses that are at least 50% Indigenous‐owned, have been demonstrated in previous research to maintain substantially higher levels of proportional Indigenous employment than non‐Indigenous businesses. This s…
It's Self‐Determination . Blackfullas Making Right Decisions for Blackfullas”: Why Indigenous‐owned businesses create better Indigenous employment outcomes
Previous research demonstrates that businesses that are Indigenous‐owned are far more likely to employ Indigenous people than non‐Indigenous‐owned businesses (Hunter, 2015). The majority of the literature on Indigenous employment uses a deficit discourse, describing factors that prevent or exclude Indigenous people from non‐Indigenous‐owned organisations. There is markedly less literature using a strength‐based approach, detailing how Indigenous‐…
Indigenous workplace policies: The crucial role of Indigenous management
Indigenous employment is a critical policy area in Australia, with businesses adopting targeted workplace and recruitment practices to increase their levels of Indigenous employment. However, non-Indigenous-owned Australian businesses are still struggling to meet their Indigenous employment targets, and the national gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous employment rates remains wide. Despite the increased popularity of Indigenous-specific wor…
Educational Mismatch and the Indigenous Labour Market: A Longitudinal Analysis
Taking the long view: Indigenous employment 1981–2021
This paper presents an analysis of Indigenous employment trends in Australia from 1981 to 2021, using nine iterations of 5-yearly Census data. It offers the most consistent long-term estimates available and situates these trends within broader shifts in the Australian labour market. Three key findings emerge. First, the overall increase in Indigenous employment over the 40-year period is primarily driven by the substantial rise in employment amon…
Economics (17 works) · Indigenous (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (10 works) · Mining and Resource Management (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works)