Research // Rosa Bishop

The Australia Institute Tasmania The Australia Institute South Australia
Centre for Future Work Carmichael Centre Nordic Policy Centre Centre for Responsible Technology Centre for Sex & Gender Equality
ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA

May 2017

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People, Governance & Government Agencies

Dollar dreaming: A literature review of economic assessments of indigenous social investment

by Rosa Bishop and Rod Campbell

Developing northern Australia is a priority for the Turnbull Government, like many governments before it. The focus of these efforts is often on capital-intensive major projects such as irrigation dams or mining infrastructure. Such investments generally provide terrible returns to the taxpayer, generate few jobs and fail to ‘develop the North’. For example, the Ord

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