Will Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Will Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Will |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS W |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7061-7794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Indigenous politics in the Australian Journal of Political Science: A review
This article reviews the slow emergence of writing on Indigenous issues and power in the journal over its first fifty years. It notes that most of this writing is by non Indigenous authors about issues that are thought to effect Indigenous lives. More contributions by Indigenous authors would be useful and will hopefully occur with growing numbers of Indigenous post-graduate students
Classifying electoral systems by input rules: Building on Blais and Rae through Australian experience
By revisiting the work of Blais and Rae, this article develops a new classification of electoral systems focused on input rules. An Unknown Winning Number family is distinguished from a Quota family with known winning numbers for most of the counting process. Branching family trees are developed and used to help explain some Australian experience with accentuated disproportionality in two electoral systems which have been omitted from otherwise p…
Rethinking social justice: From ‘peoples’ to ‘populations’, by Tim Rowse
Rowse describes this book as a ‘series of historical observations, not a work of policy advocacy’ (p. xv). This is an accurate, but modest description, as there is a coherent framework linking thes
Losing localism, constraining councillors: Why the Northern Territory supershires are struggling
Local government reform in Australia's sparsely settled Northern Territory resulted in the emergence of large, remote area, regional shires in 2008. This paper outlines the history of remote area local government in the Northern Territory since ‘self-government’ in 1978 and compares these new large supershires with the more dispersed system of local government which preceded them. It argues that the large remote area shires are struggling to be a…
Winning Aboriginal Votes: Reflections on the 2012 Northern Territory Election
This article offers two levels of interpretation of the Country Liberals win in the 2012 election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. Both focus on Aboriginal votes in remote areas, which moved away from Labor in significant numbers compared
Changing Scale, Mixing Interests: Generational Change in Northern Territory Local Government
This article examines recent local government reform in the Northern Territory from two perspectives. The first is a quantitative perspective on population and finances, which focuses on the mixing of diverse interests in the recent changes. The second is a more observational perspective gained from working with one pre-reform local government and the larger local government that has replaced it. The article argues that the recent changes are gen…
Norm Kelly, Directions in Australian Electoral Reform: Professionalism and Partisanship in Electoral Management
Ideology, Evidence and Competing Principles in Australian Indigenous Affairs: From Brough to Rudd via Pearson and the NTER
This paper tracks the recent rise of an ‘ideology vs evidence’ discourse as a way of describing good and bad Indigenous affairs policy. It suggests that a more useful way of thinking about Indigenous affairs is the analytic of three competing principles: equality, choice and guardianship. The paper suggests that dominant debates in Indigenous affairs balance these principles and move between them over time. Using a fourfold categorisation of ideo…
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
It is gradually being recognised by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that getting contemporary Indigenous governance right is fundamental to improving Indigenous well-being and generating sustained socioeconomic development. This collection of papers examines the dilemmas and challenges involved in the Indigenous struggle for the development and recognition of
Is Homeownership the Answer? Housing Tenure and Indigenous Australians in Remote (and Settled) Areas
This paper examines the relevance of recently floated policy ideas for extending homeownership to remote Aboriginal Australians. It argues that while the housing tenure system in more densely settled Australia is dominated by homeownership, this is not, and cannot realistically be expected to be, the case in remote areas. The paper uses data from the 2001 Census, organized by remoteness geography, to demonstrate the different character of the hou…
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
Part 1.The governance environment 2. Between a rock and a hard
Debating Indigenous Issues: More Continuity than Change
Torres Strait elections, 2000 and 2004: Changes in political leadership and style
Torres Strait has 18 local governments, elections for which were held in March of both 2000 and 2004 in conjunction with other local government elections in Queensland. Elections were also held at these times for additional positions on two regional representative bodies for Torres Strait, the Island Co-ordinating Council and the Torres Strait Regional Authority. This paper examines all these elections, focusing on changes in political leadership…
The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme
s mission, as defined in its strategic plan, is to contribute to better outcomes for Indigenous people by
Commentary: Partication and representation in the 2002 Atsic elections
This commentary updates earlier work on participation and representation in ATSIC elections. It adds analysis of the fifth round of ATSIC elections held in 2002 to those held in 1990, 1993, 1996 and 1999. It confirms and refines earlier findings relating to a number of different measures of participation and representation. It argues that overall voter turnout is reasonable given the voluntary nature of ATSIC elections. It discerns a distinctive …
Participation and Representation in Atsic Elections: A 10 Year Perspective
This paper examines participation and representation in ATSIC elections over the 10 year period since 1990. It attempts to identify patterns of participation and representation that seem to be emerging and what these might suggest about ATSIC's operation. By examining numbers of nominees compared to positions available, the paper suggests that ATSIC elected office has been fairly keenly and consistently sought and competed for by Indigenous peopl…
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities
Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities
For most of Australia's colonial history Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have been denied full membership of Australian society. This book examines the history of indigenous peoples' citizenship status and asks, is it possible for indigenous Australians to be members of a common society on equal terms with others? Leading commentators from a range of disciplines examine historical conceptions of indigenous civil rights, consider issues ari…
Local Governments and Indigenous Australians: Developments and Dilemmas in Contrasting Circumstances
This paper examines developments and dilemmas in relations between local governments and indigenous Australians over the last quarter century. It establishes a framework for analysis based on differences in local government systems, circumstances and populations. It then examines two sets of developments in relations which have occurred in contrasting circumstances. The first is ongoing poor relations in incorporated local government areas, focus…
Reshaping governance in Torres Strait: The Torres Strait regional authority and beyond
Getano Lui (Jnr) suggested in his 1993 Boyer Lecture that it was time to ‘build a new framework’ for the Torres Strait and that this might be negotiated in time for the centenary of the Australian Constitution in 2001. This paper examines possibilities for reshaping governance in Torres Strait, particularly the idea of Torres Strait regional government. It does so in the light of the history of settlement and contemporary population characteristi…
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
Part 1.The governance environment 2. Between a rock and a hard
Ideology, Evidence and Competing Principles in Australian Indigenous Affairs: From Brough to Rudd via Pearson and the NTER
This paper tracks the recent rise of an ‘ideology vs evidence’ discourse as a way of describing good and bad Indigenous affairs policy. It suggests that a more useful way of thinking about Indigenous affairs is the analytic of three competing principles: equality, choice and guardianship. The paper suggests that dominant debates in Indigenous affairs balance these principles and move between them over time. Using a fourfold categorisation of ideo…
Participation and Representation in Atsic Elections: A 10 Year Perspective
This paper examines participation and representation in ATSIC elections over the 10 year period since 1990. It attempts to identify patterns of participation and representation that seem to be emerging and what these might suggest about ATSIC's operation. By examining numbers of nominees compared to positions available, the paper suggests that ATSIC elected office has been fairly keenly and consistently sought and competed for by Indigenous peopl…
Reshaping governance in Torres Strait: The Torres Strait regional authority and beyond
Getano Lui (Jnr) suggested in his 1993 Boyer Lecture that it was time to ‘build a new framework’ for the Torres Strait and that this might be negotiated in time for the centenary of the Australian Constitution in 2001. This paper examines possibilities for reshaping governance in Torres Strait, particularly the idea of Torres Strait regional government. It does so in the light of the history of settlement and contemporary population characteristi…
Changing Scale, Mixing Interests: Generational Change in Northern Territory Local Government
This article examines recent local government reform in the Northern Territory from two perspectives. The first is a quantitative perspective on population and finances, which focuses on the mixing of diverse interests in the recent changes. The second is a more observational perspective gained from working with one pre-reform local government and the larger local government that has replaced it. The article argues that the recent changes are gen…
Local Governments and Indigenous Australians: Developments and Dilemmas in Contrasting Circumstances
This paper examines developments and dilemmas in relations between local governments and indigenous Australians over the last quarter century. It establishes a framework for analysis based on differences in local government systems, circumstances and populations. It then examines two sets of developments in relations which have occurred in contrasting circumstances. The first is ongoing poor relations in incorporated local government areas, focus…
Commentary: Partication and representation in the 2002 Atsic elections
This commentary updates earlier work on participation and representation in ATSIC elections. It adds analysis of the fifth round of ATSIC elections held in 2002 to those held in 1990, 1993, 1996 and 1999. It confirms and refines earlier findings relating to a number of different measures of participation and representation. It argues that overall voter turnout is reasonable given the voluntary nature of ATSIC elections. It discerns a distinctive …
Losing localism, constraining councillors: Why the Northern Territory supershires are struggling
Local government reform in Australia's sparsely settled Northern Territory resulted in the emergence of large, remote area, regional shires in 2008. This paper outlines the history of remote area local government in the Northern Territory since ‘self-government’ in 1978 and compares these new large supershires with the more dispersed system of local government which preceded them. It argues that the large remote area shires are struggling to be a…
Winning Aboriginal Votes: Reflections on the 2012 Northern Territory Election
This article offers two levels of interpretation of the Country Liberals win in the 2012 election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. Both focus on Aboriginal votes in remote areas, which moved away from Labor in significant numbers compared
Is Homeownership the Answer? Housing Tenure and Indigenous Australians in Remote (and Settled) Areas
This paper examines the relevance of recently floated policy ideas for extending homeownership to remote Aboriginal Australians. It argues that while the housing tenure system in more densely settled Australia is dominated by homeownership, this is not, and cannot realistically be expected to be, the case in remote areas. The paper uses data from the 2001 Census, organized by remoteness geography, to demonstrate the different character of the hou…
Classifying electoral systems by input rules: Building on Blais and Rae through Australian experience
By revisiting the work of Blais and Rae, this article develops a new classification of electoral systems focused on input rules. An Unknown Winning Number family is distinguished from a Quota family with known winning numbers for most of the counting process. Branching family trees are developed and used to help explain some Australian experience with accentuated disproportionality in two electoral systems which have been omitted from otherwise p…
Reshaping governance in Torres Strait: The Torres Strait regional authority and beyond
Getano Lui (Jnr) suggested in his 1993 Boyer Lecture that it was time to ‘build a new framework’ for the Torres Strait and that this might be negotiated in time for the centenary of the Australian Constitution in 2001. This paper examines possibilities for reshaping governance in Torres Strait, particularly the idea of Torres Strait regional government. It does so in the light of the history of settlement and contemporary population characteristi…
Local Governments and Indigenous Australians: Developments and Dilemmas in Contrasting Circumstances
This paper examines developments and dilemmas in relations between local governments and indigenous Australians over the last quarter century. It establishes a framework for analysis based on differences in local government systems, circumstances and populations. It then examines two sets of developments in relations which have occurred in contrasting circumstances. The first is ongoing poor relations in incorporated local government areas, focus…
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities
For most of Australia's colonial history Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have been denied full membership of Australian society. This book examines the history of indigenous peoples' citizenship status and asks, is it possible for indigenous Australians to be members of a common society on equal terms with others? Leading commentators from a range of disciplines examine historical conceptions of indigenous civil rights, consider issues ari…
Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship
Participation and Representation in Atsic Elections: A 10 Year Perspective
This paper examines participation and representation in ATSIC elections over the 10 year period since 1990. It attempts to identify patterns of participation and representation that seem to be emerging and what these might suggest about ATSIC's operation. By examining numbers of nominees compared to positions available, the paper suggests that ATSIC elected office has been fairly keenly and consistently sought and competed for by Indigenous peopl…
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities
The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme
s mission, as defined in its strategic plan, is to contribute to better outcomes for Indigenous people by
Commentary: Partication and representation in the 2002 Atsic elections
This commentary updates earlier work on participation and representation in ATSIC elections. It adds analysis of the fifth round of ATSIC elections held in 2002 to those held in 1990, 1993, 1996 and 1999. It confirms and refines earlier findings relating to a number of different measures of participation and representation. It argues that overall voter turnout is reasonable given the voluntary nature of ATSIC elections. It discerns a distinctive …
Debating Indigenous Issues: More Continuity than Change
Torres Strait elections, 2000 and 2004: Changes in political leadership and style
Torres Strait has 18 local governments, elections for which were held in March of both 2000 and 2004 in conjunction with other local government elections in Queensland. Elections were also held at these times for additional positions on two regional representative bodies for Torres Strait, the Island Co-ordinating Council and the Torres Strait Regional Authority. This paper examines all these elections, focusing on changes in political leadership…
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
It is gradually being recognised by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians that getting contemporary Indigenous governance right is fundamental to improving Indigenous well-being and generating sustained socioeconomic development. This collection of papers examines the dilemmas and challenges involved in the Indigenous struggle for the development and recognition of
Is Homeownership the Answer? Housing Tenure and Indigenous Australians in Remote (and Settled) Areas
This paper examines the relevance of recently floated policy ideas for extending homeownership to remote Aboriginal Australians. It argues that while the housing tenure system in more densely settled Australia is dominated by homeownership, this is not, and cannot realistically be expected to be, the case in remote areas. The paper uses data from the 2001 Census, organized by remoteness geography, to demonstrate the different character of the hou…
Contested Governance: Culture, power and institutions in Indigenous Australia
Part 1.The governance environment 2. Between a rock and a hard
Ideology, Evidence and Competing Principles in Australian Indigenous Affairs: From Brough to Rudd via Pearson and the NTER
This paper tracks the recent rise of an ‘ideology vs evidence’ discourse as a way of describing good and bad Indigenous affairs policy. It suggests that a more useful way of thinking about Indigenous affairs is the analytic of three competing principles: equality, choice and guardianship. The paper suggests that dominant debates in Indigenous affairs balance these principles and move between them over time. Using a fourfold categorisation of ideo…
Winning Aboriginal Votes: Reflections on the 2012 Northern Territory Election
This article offers two levels of interpretation of the Country Liberals win in the 2012 election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. Both focus on Aboriginal votes in remote areas, which moved away from Labor in significant numbers compared
Changing Scale, Mixing Interests: Generational Change in Northern Territory Local Government
This article examines recent local government reform in the Northern Territory from two perspectives. The first is a quantitative perspective on population and finances, which focuses on the mixing of diverse interests in the recent changes. The second is a more observational perspective gained from working with one pre-reform local government and the larger local government that has replaced it. The article argues that the recent changes are gen…
Norm Kelly, Directions in Australian Electoral Reform: Professionalism and Partisanship in Electoral Management
Losing localism, constraining councillors: Why the Northern Territory supershires are struggling
Local government reform in Australia's sparsely settled Northern Territory resulted in the emergence of large, remote area, regional shires in 2008. This paper outlines the history of remote area local government in the Northern Territory since ‘self-government’ in 1978 and compares these new large supershires with the more dispersed system of local government which preceded them. It argues that the large remote area shires are struggling to be a…
Rethinking social justice: From ‘peoples’ to ‘populations’, by Tim Rowse
Rowse describes this book as a ‘series of historical observations, not a work of policy advocacy’ (p. xv). This is an accurate, but modest description, as there is a coherent framework linking thes
Indigenous politics in the Australian Journal of Political Science: A review
This article reviews the slow emergence of writing on Indigenous issues and power in the journal over its first fifty years. It notes that most of this writing is by non Indigenous authors about issues that are thought to effect Indigenous lives. More contributions by Indigenous authors would be useful and will hopefully occur with growing numbers of Indigenous post-graduate students
Classifying electoral systems by input rules: Building on Blais and Rae through Australian experience
By revisiting the work of Blais and Rae, this article develops a new classification of electoral systems focused on input rules. An Unknown Winning Number family is distinguished from a Quota family with known winning numbers for most of the counting process. Branching family trees are developed and used to help explain some Australian experience with accentuated disproportionality in two electoral systems which have been omitted from otherwise p…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (13 works) · Indigenous (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Political economy (8 works)