W Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 23359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2524-0460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Land rights and a national representative body: Institutionalisation as a criterion for Indigenous policy success and failure
In a half‐century perspective on Australian Indigenous policy, land rights are compared with national Indigenous representative bodies. Adopting ‘institutionalisation’ as the criterion for assessing policy success and failure, land rights are seen as gradually progressed through the iterative actions of State and Commonwealth parliaments and their associated courts. By contrast, national Indigenous representative bodies, established solely by Com…
Contextualising measures of everyday discrimination experienced by Aboriginal peoples: A place-based analysis from central Australia
Comparing Northern Territory Elections, 1974‐2016: Independent Success in a Strong Two‐Party System
Electoral success of independents and minor parties is often interpreted as indicating a weakening of two‐party systems of political competition. This paper, on all thirteen elections for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 1974, observes that independents have enjoyed far more success than minor parties. It argues that independent success has reflected a continuing strong two‐party system, not a weakening one. Six of ten successful…
Stilfragen
Building capacity in indigenous governance: Comparing the Australian and American experiences
This paper compares key aspects of governance structures for Indigenous populations in the United States and Australia. The paper focuses on policy coordination and administration, in particular the nodes of decision‐making in the two countries in relation to government contracting and accountability. The U.S. approach to funding Indigenous organizations stems from the 1975 Indian Self‐Determination and Education Act and its subsequent expansions…
Administrative Arrangements in Australian Indigenous Affairs: Will they Ever Settle
To begin, a quote about administrative arrangements in Australian Indigenous affairs from Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in April 1973, addressing ‘State Ministers concerned with Aboriginal Affairs’. Having referred to the Commonwealth's new power flowing from the 1967 referendum and declared his government's intention to ‘assume full responsibility for policy’, Whitlam went on to say that it was not the ‘aim to establish an omnibus Department of A…
Three accounts of the emergence of the remote jobs and communities program: Changing Timeframes and Types of Actors
Using frameworks for the analysis of policy devised by Colebatch and Bacchi, three accounts are developed of the emergence of an Australian government program for Indigenous employment and community participation in remote areas. Timeframes increase and types of actors change moving from an authoritative choice account to structured interaction and then problematisation. Individual agents in authoritative choice are replaced in structured interac…
Changing Agendas in Australian Indigenous Policy: Federalism, Competing Principles and Generational Dynamics
This paper identifies two periods of punctuated change in the content and style of Australian Indigenous policy in the last fifty years. It also identifies a third period in which attention to Indigenous policy was heightened through the nationalisation of land issues already well‐established on the agendas of sub‐national jurisdictions. The paper relates all three periods to the changing federal institutions of Australian Indigenous policy, with…
Coombs’ Bastard Child: The Troubled Life of CDEP
In the mid 1970s HC Coombs was a major promoter of the idea behind the CDEP scheme: that rather than pay lots of Aboriginal people in remote areas unemployment benefits it would be more constructive for them to be employed part‐time by local Indigenous organisations to undertake socially useful tasks. From this simple idea was born one of the most significant and, in time, one of the largest Indigenous‐specific programs Australia has seen, the Co…
Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia by Tess Lea
Being a Good Senior Manager in Indigenous Community Governance: Working with Public Purpose and Private Benefit
This article seeks to understand the role of being a senior manager in Indigenous community governance, particularly though not exclusively in remote Aboriginal communities. It argues against the tendency of would‐be reformers of Indigenous community governance to focus on the competence and ethical qualities of those who occupy these roles and asks instead how can isolated managerialism in Indigenous community governance be overcome? The article…
Dispersal, Autonomy and Scale in Indigenous Community Governance: Some reflections on recent Northern Territory experience
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Introduction Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders Part I. Sovereignty: 2. Waitangi as mystery of state: consequences of the ascription of federative capacity to the Maori J. G. A. Pocock 3. The struggles of indigenous peoples for and of freedom James Tully 4. Beyond regret: Mabo's implications for Australian constitutionalism Jeremy Webber 5. Engaging with indigeneity: Tino Rangatiratanga in Aotearoa Roger Maaka and Augie Fleras Part II. I…
Indigenous Australians and the rules of the social security system: Universalism, appropriateness and justice
Noel Pearson has recently argued that inclusion, over the last 30 years, in a ‘passive’ welfare system has been to the detriment of Aboriginal society. This article approaches the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the social security system from a slightly different perspective, while taking seriously Pearson's concerns. It argues that, despite norms and aspirations of universalism, rules within the social security system are social constructs de…
The Tasmanian Electoral Roll Trial in the 2002 Atsic Elections
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) elections since 1990 have used the Commonwealth Electoral Roll (CER) as a large under‐specified list of potential voters. Dissatisfaction with this arrangement within the Tasmanian Aboriginal community led to a trial roll of Indigenous electors being drawn up for the 2002 ATSIC elections in that State. This paper recounts a number of contexts in which this trial was developed. It also recou…
Torres Strait Governance Structures and the Centenary of Australian Federation: A Missed Opportunity
In his 1993 Boyer lecture, Getano Lui Jnr called for a change in the status of Torres Strait governance structures within the Australian federation, nominating the centenary of Federation on 1 January 2001 as a possible time for change. In 1996, the Commonwealth Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs initiated a parliamentary committee inquiry into greater autonomy for the people of the Torres Strait, which reported favourably…
Stil und Stilistik
Reshaping Australian Aviation and Airports Administration: Some Comparative Reflections
(1995). Reshaping Australian Aviation and Airports Administration: Some Comparative Reflections. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 27-47
Reconciling Public Accountability and Aboriginal Self‐determination/Self‐management: Is Atsic Succeeding
Since the early 1970s commonwealth governments have been pursuing policies of self‐determination/self‐management in relation to Aborigines. In 1987, the Hawke government announced its intention to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to further this policy goal. During the debates over ATSIC's formation, the issue of public accountability in the existing administration of Aboriginal affairs came to public prominen…
The Cdep Scheme: Administrative and Policy Issues 1
Reconstructing Aboriginal Housing Policy for Remote Areas: How Much Room for Manoeuvre
This article applies Schaffer's 1984 critique of the “sectoralism” of mainstream public policy practice and discourse to Aboriginal housing policy in Australia. It analyses the approaches and programs of the Aboriginal housing policy sector and the priority given to them over the years. It then identifies the dominant agenda of Aboriginal housing policy defined in terms of massive statistics of nationwide Aboriginal housing need. An alterative ag…
The CDEP scheme: Bureaucratic politics, remote community politics and the development of an aboriginal ‘workfare’ program in times of rising unemployment
This paper analyses the development of an Aboriginal ‘workfore’ program which operates in remote communities, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme, from its conception back in the mid 1970s through to the present day. It identifies a number of distinct periods in the development of the program; a period of debate surrounding its conception, an initial pilot period of operation beginning in 1977 in which the scheme endured b…
The politics of daily life in Australian income security administration
This paper is a discussion of the politics of every day administrative processes in one of the oldest and most highly institutionalised areas of Australian Commonwealth Government activity; income security. It begins at the bottom of administration with the encounters of service delivery. It identifies clients, welfare intermediaries and rank and file Department of Social Security (DSS) officials as the major participants in these encounters. The…
Access to Services: Ethnicity in Australian Government Administration
This paper starts from an argument, developed by Jean Martin in 1978, which links recent ethnic differentiation of the activities and structures of our major institutions with an underlying social redefinition of migrants. It then extends Martin's analysis in the particular context of the service activities of one of the major line departments of Australian government — the Department of Social Security. It is argued that the accommodation of eth…
Gedenkschrift fur William Foerste
The CDEP scheme: Bureaucratic politics, remote community politics and the development of an aboriginal ‘workfare’ program in times of rising unemployment
This paper analyses the development of an Aboriginal ‘workfore’ program which operates in remote communities, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme, from its conception back in the mid 1970s through to the present day. It identifies a number of distinct periods in the development of the program; a period of debate surrounding its conception, an initial pilot period of operation beginning in 1977 in which the scheme endured b…
Changing Agendas in Australian Indigenous Policy: Federalism, Competing Principles and Generational Dynamics
This paper identifies two periods of punctuated change in the content and style of Australian Indigenous policy in the last fifty years. It also identifies a third period in which attention to Indigenous policy was heightened through the nationalisation of land issues already well‐established on the agendas of sub‐national jurisdictions. The paper relates all three periods to the changing federal institutions of Australian Indigenous policy, with…
Coombs’ Bastard Child: The Troubled Life of CDEP
In the mid 1970s HC Coombs was a major promoter of the idea behind the CDEP scheme: that rather than pay lots of Aboriginal people in remote areas unemployment benefits it would be more constructive for them to be employed part‐time by local Indigenous organisations to undertake socially useful tasks. From this simple idea was born one of the most significant and, in time, one of the largest Indigenous‐specific programs Australia has seen, the Co…
Administrative Arrangements in Australian Indigenous Affairs: Will they Ever Settle
To begin, a quote about administrative arrangements in Australian Indigenous affairs from Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in April 1973, addressing ‘State Ministers concerned with Aboriginal Affairs’. Having referred to the Commonwealth's new power flowing from the 1967 referendum and declared his government's intention to ‘assume full responsibility for policy’, Whitlam went on to say that it was not the ‘aim to establish an omnibus Department of A…
Dispersal, Autonomy and Scale in Indigenous Community Governance: Some reflections on recent Northern Territory experience
Reconciling Public Accountability and Aboriginal Self‐determination/Self‐management: Is Atsic Succeeding
Since the early 1970s commonwealth governments have been pursuing policies of self‐determination/self‐management in relation to Aborigines. In 1987, the Hawke government announced its intention to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to further this policy goal. During the debates over ATSIC's formation, the issue of public accountability in the existing administration of Aboriginal affairs came to public prominen…
Contextualising measures of everyday discrimination experienced by Aboriginal peoples: A place-based analysis from central Australia
Torres Strait Governance Structures and the Centenary of Australian Federation: A Missed Opportunity
In his 1993 Boyer lecture, Getano Lui Jnr called for a change in the status of Torres Strait governance structures within the Australian federation, nominating the centenary of Federation on 1 January 2001 as a possible time for change. In 1996, the Commonwealth Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs initiated a parliamentary committee inquiry into greater autonomy for the people of the Torres Strait, which reported favourably…
Reconstructing Aboriginal Housing Policy for Remote Areas: How Much Room for Manoeuvre
This article applies Schaffer's 1984 critique of the “sectoralism” of mainstream public policy practice and discourse to Aboriginal housing policy in Australia. It analyses the approaches and programs of the Aboriginal housing policy sector and the priority given to them over the years. It then identifies the dominant agenda of Aboriginal housing policy defined in terms of massive statistics of nationwide Aboriginal housing need. An alterative ag…
Three accounts of the emergence of the remote jobs and communities program: Changing Timeframes and Types of Actors
Using frameworks for the analysis of policy devised by Colebatch and Bacchi, three accounts are developed of the emergence of an Australian government program for Indigenous employment and community participation in remote areas. Timeframes increase and types of actors change moving from an authoritative choice account to structured interaction and then problematisation. Individual agents in authoritative choice are replaced in structured interac…
Being a Good Senior Manager in Indigenous Community Governance: Working with Public Purpose and Private Benefit
This article seeks to understand the role of being a senior manager in Indigenous community governance, particularly though not exclusively in remote Aboriginal communities. It argues against the tendency of would‐be reformers of Indigenous community governance to focus on the competence and ethical qualities of those who occupy these roles and asks instead how can isolated managerialism in Indigenous community governance be overcome? The article…
Indigenous Australians and the rules of the social security system: Universalism, appropriateness and justice
Noel Pearson has recently argued that inclusion, over the last 30 years, in a ‘passive’ welfare system has been to the detriment of Aboriginal society. This article approaches the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the social security system from a slightly different perspective, while taking seriously Pearson's concerns. It argues that, despite norms and aspirations of universalism, rules within the social security system are social constructs de…
The Tasmanian Electoral Roll Trial in the 2002 Atsic Elections
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) elections since 1990 have used the Commonwealth Electoral Roll (CER) as a large under‐specified list of potential voters. Dissatisfaction with this arrangement within the Tasmanian Aboriginal community led to a trial roll of Indigenous electors being drawn up for the 2002 ATSIC elections in that State. This paper recounts a number of contexts in which this trial was developed. It also recou…
The Cdep Scheme: Administrative and Policy Issues 1
The politics of daily life in Australian income security administration
This paper is a discussion of the politics of every day administrative processes in one of the oldest and most highly institutionalised areas of Australian Commonwealth Government activity; income security. It begins at the bottom of administration with the encounters of service delivery. It identifies clients, welfare intermediaries and rank and file Department of Social Security (DSS) officials as the major participants in these encounters. The…
Gedenkschrift fur William Foerste
Access to Services: Ethnicity in Australian Government Administration
This paper starts from an argument, developed by Jean Martin in 1978, which links recent ethnic differentiation of the activities and structures of our major institutions with an underlying social redefinition of migrants. It then extends Martin's analysis in the particular context of the service activities of one of the major line departments of Australian government — the Department of Social Security. It is argued that the accommodation of eth…
The politics of daily life in Australian income security administration
This paper is a discussion of the politics of every day administrative processes in one of the oldest and most highly institutionalised areas of Australian Commonwealth Government activity; income security. It begins at the bottom of administration with the encounters of service delivery. It identifies clients, welfare intermediaries and rank and file Department of Social Security (DSS) officials as the major participants in these encounters. The…
The CDEP scheme: Bureaucratic politics, remote community politics and the development of an aboriginal ‘workfare’ program in times of rising unemployment
This paper analyses the development of an Aboriginal ‘workfore’ program which operates in remote communities, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme, from its conception back in the mid 1970s through to the present day. It identifies a number of distinct periods in the development of the program; a period of debate surrounding its conception, an initial pilot period of operation beginning in 1977 in which the scheme endured b…
Reconstructing Aboriginal Housing Policy for Remote Areas: How Much Room for Manoeuvre
This article applies Schaffer's 1984 critique of the “sectoralism” of mainstream public policy practice and discourse to Aboriginal housing policy in Australia. It analyses the approaches and programs of the Aboriginal housing policy sector and the priority given to them over the years. It then identifies the dominant agenda of Aboriginal housing policy defined in terms of massive statistics of nationwide Aboriginal housing need. An alterative ag…
The Cdep Scheme: Administrative and Policy Issues 1
Reconciling Public Accountability and Aboriginal Self‐determination/Self‐management: Is Atsic Succeeding
Since the early 1970s commonwealth governments have been pursuing policies of self‐determination/self‐management in relation to Aborigines. In 1987, the Hawke government announced its intention to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) to further this policy goal. During the debates over ATSIC's formation, the issue of public accountability in the existing administration of Aboriginal affairs came to public prominen…
Stil und Stilistik
Reshaping Australian Aviation and Airports Administration: Some Comparative Reflections
(1995). Reshaping Australian Aviation and Airports Administration: Some Comparative Reflections. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 27-47
Torres Strait Governance Structures and the Centenary of Australian Federation: A Missed Opportunity
In his 1993 Boyer lecture, Getano Lui Jnr called for a change in the status of Torres Strait governance structures within the Australian federation, nominating the centenary of Federation on 1 January 2001 as a possible time for change. In 1996, the Commonwealth Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs initiated a parliamentary committee inquiry into greater autonomy for the people of the Torres Strait, which reported favourably…
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Introduction Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders Part I. Sovereignty: 2. Waitangi as mystery of state: consequences of the ascription of federative capacity to the Maori J. G. A. Pocock 3. The struggles of indigenous peoples for and of freedom James Tully 4. Beyond regret: Mabo's implications for Australian constitutionalism Jeremy Webber 5. Engaging with indigeneity: Tino Rangatiratanga in Aotearoa Roger Maaka and Augie Fleras Part II. I…
Indigenous Australians and the rules of the social security system: Universalism, appropriateness and justice
Noel Pearson has recently argued that inclusion, over the last 30 years, in a ‘passive’ welfare system has been to the detriment of Aboriginal society. This article approaches the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the social security system from a slightly different perspective, while taking seriously Pearson's concerns. It argues that, despite norms and aspirations of universalism, rules within the social security system are social constructs de…
The Tasmanian Electoral Roll Trial in the 2002 Atsic Elections
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) elections since 1990 have used the Commonwealth Electoral Roll (CER) as a large under‐specified list of potential voters. Dissatisfaction with this arrangement within the Tasmanian Aboriginal community led to a trial roll of Indigenous electors being drawn up for the 2002 ATSIC elections in that State. This paper recounts a number of contexts in which this trial was developed. It also recou…
Dispersal, Autonomy and Scale in Indigenous Community Governance: Some reflections on recent Northern Territory experience
Being a Good Senior Manager in Indigenous Community Governance: Working with Public Purpose and Private Benefit
This article seeks to understand the role of being a senior manager in Indigenous community governance, particularly though not exclusively in remote Aboriginal communities. It argues against the tendency of would‐be reformers of Indigenous community governance to focus on the competence and ethical qualities of those who occupy these roles and asks instead how can isolated managerialism in Indigenous community governance be overcome? The article…
Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia by Tess Lea
Coombs’ Bastard Child: The Troubled Life of CDEP
In the mid 1970s HC Coombs was a major promoter of the idea behind the CDEP scheme: that rather than pay lots of Aboriginal people in remote areas unemployment benefits it would be more constructive for them to be employed part‐time by local Indigenous organisations to undertake socially useful tasks. From this simple idea was born one of the most significant and, in time, one of the largest Indigenous‐specific programs Australia has seen, the Co…
Changing Agendas in Australian Indigenous Policy: Federalism, Competing Principles and Generational Dynamics
This paper identifies two periods of punctuated change in the content and style of Australian Indigenous policy in the last fifty years. It also identifies a third period in which attention to Indigenous policy was heightened through the nationalisation of land issues already well‐established on the agendas of sub‐national jurisdictions. The paper relates all three periods to the changing federal institutions of Australian Indigenous policy, with…
Administrative Arrangements in Australian Indigenous Affairs: Will they Ever Settle
To begin, a quote about administrative arrangements in Australian Indigenous affairs from Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in April 1973, addressing ‘State Ministers concerned with Aboriginal Affairs’. Having referred to the Commonwealth's new power flowing from the 1967 referendum and declared his government's intention to ‘assume full responsibility for policy’, Whitlam went on to say that it was not the ‘aim to establish an omnibus Department of A…
Three accounts of the emergence of the remote jobs and communities program: Changing Timeframes and Types of Actors
Using frameworks for the analysis of policy devised by Colebatch and Bacchi, three accounts are developed of the emergence of an Australian government program for Indigenous employment and community participation in remote areas. Timeframes increase and types of actors change moving from an authoritative choice account to structured interaction and then problematisation. Individual agents in authoritative choice are replaced in structured interac…
Stilfragen
Building capacity in indigenous governance: Comparing the Australian and American experiences
This paper compares key aspects of governance structures for Indigenous populations in the United States and Australia. The paper focuses on policy coordination and administration, in particular the nodes of decision‐making in the two countries in relation to government contracting and accountability. The U.S. approach to funding Indigenous organizations stems from the 1975 Indian Self‐Determination and Education Act and its subsequent expansions…
Comparing Northern Territory Elections, 1974‐2016: Independent Success in a Strong Two‐Party System
Electoral success of independents and minor parties is often interpreted as indicating a weakening of two‐party systems of political competition. This paper, on all thirteen elections for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 1974, observes that independents have enjoyed far more success than minor parties. It argues that independent success has reflected a continuing strong two‐party system, not a weakening one. Six of ten successful…
Contextualising measures of everyday discrimination experienced by Aboriginal peoples: A place-based analysis from central Australia
Land rights and a national representative body: Institutionalisation as a criterion for Indigenous policy success and failure
In a half‐century perspective on Australian Indigenous policy, land rights are compared with national Indigenous representative bodies. Adopting ‘institutionalisation’ as the criterion for assessing policy success and failure, land rights are seen as gradually progressed through the iterative actions of State and Commonwealth parliaments and their associated courts. By contrast, national Indigenous representative bodies, established solely by Com…
Political science (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Public Administration (14 works) · Public Administration (14 works) · Indigenous (13 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (9 works)