In recent years there has been a substantial growth in the
literature of Auatralian Aboriginal Studies. While much of this has
touched on past and present economic issues from a historical,
political or social viewpoint, its result has been to emphasise the
need for a synthesis of the available information on the economic
status of Aborigines in Australia. This book provides a survey of
studies so far made on various aspects of current Aboriginal
economic life in different environments in Australia, and raises
questions of economic policy which follow from their results. In
this the authors break new ground in the breadth of their canvass
and by their extension of issues previously limited to the realm of
social welfare to that of economic policy. This book is prefaced by
a brief description of the historical background to the Aboriginal
'economy', and introduced by an overview of the relatively unequal
economic status of Aborigines in the Australian economy today. It
then surveys the available information on the economic position of
Aborigines in the different segments of society in remote and
settled Australia in which they live: government settlements and
missions;
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