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Our new Ninti One Foundation http://www.nintione.com.au/ninti-one-foundation is operational and we are beginning to receive donations. We aim to improve the lives of people living in remote Australia both socially and economically. From our research into what works in remote Australia, we understand that international donors represent a big opportunity for us. We expect that the international community will support philanthropy in remote Australia: as part of a recent study trip to the USA, our Foundation MD, Rod Reeve participated in the US’s ‘Giving Institute’ Summer Symposium in California. Rod commented that ‘I was surprised to learn that American individuals and corporations donate a staggering $500 billion each year to philanthropy. That makes them the most generous nation on Earth – giving approximately six times more per capita than the average Australian’. By comparison, people living in Australia donate around $3 billion per year. Rod was able to pitch Ninti One’s ideas to an influential audience in the USA, which we will try to convert to donations to the Ninti One Foundation, in due course.
Rod went on to Boston to complete an Executive Education course in Finance at the Harvard Business School. This financial expertise places Ninti One in a strong position to manage donor funds and to be accountable for responsible investment of these funds into remote Australia.
Photo: Rod Reeve at the Summer Symposium
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CRC-REP’s CEO and Ninti One General Manager Kevin Williams attended the 40th R&D Management Conference at Churchill College, Cambridge, organised by the Centre for Technology Management at the University of Cambridge. The conference topics included Tools, toolkits, techniques and processes for managing technology, R&D and innovation; entrepreneurship, investment, open innovation, business models and intellectual property; technology and innovation policy, systems of innovation, innovation impact and university–industry interaction; people, organisation, skills and learning for R&D effectiveness.
The highlights for Kevin were the presentations by CEOs and research managers of major companies such as Rolls Royce, AstraZeneca and Syngenta. Kevin was also very interested in the latest findings about innovation in SMEs, a key focus of the CRC program. He reports that while many speakers mentioned the challenges of research collaboration with SMEs, few had practical recommendations. But there were many findings that are applicable to research managers in Australia, particularly those about innovation processes involving collaboration between universities and companies. Some of the terminology about researchers was also very interesting: highly regarded are T-shaped researchers – those with deep expertise in one area, coupled with broad awareness – and ambidextrous researchers – those who can move between scientific and commercial domains.
Photo: Kevin Williams
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Ninti One has employed two new staff members to work within the Stronger Communities for Children (SCfC) team. The new SCfC Manager, Olivia Couch, comes to us from managing a busy child care program in the Utopia Homelands and start with Ninti One on 22 August. She will be joined by Project Officer Shannon McMahon, who initially started working at Ninti One through the Aurora intern program. Both Olivia and Shannon have lots of experience and energy and are keen to take this important project further. Working with the guidance of the senior Ninti One SCfC Team members Lyn Allen, Steve Fisher and Laurie Berryman, they will continue to build the strong working relationships with local stakeholders in the 10 SCfC communities across the Northern Territory. Ninti One SCfC team provides an important and unique service to these 10 remote communities, assisting where required to develop the skills of Local Leadership Groups, helping them to understand the program’s guidelines and choose services that best meet their needs based on best practice evidence.
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The latest face-to-face meeting of the Plant Business Advisory Group was held in Alice Springs in July. Participants from across the country convened for several days of meetings and activities.
A small convoy of 4WD vehicles ventured out to Desert Garden Produce Aboriginal Corporation at Rainbow Valley to inspect and discuss Max and Ruth Emery’s bush tomato growing operation and nursery. Members of the group also visited the nursery at Alice Springs Desert Park, where most of the Plant Business project’s plant propagation is conducted, to inspect plants being grown for future project activities. A visit to the Ilparpa Road property of Mick and Heather Myers was also undertaken, where delegates inspected the intensively managed bush tomato project there, which includes Plant Business project plantings.
The official meeting of the Plant Business Advisory Group consisted of a summary of the project, an update of progress and discussion of challenges encountered. Several new project opportunities were defined as proposals for prospective funding applications through the Ninti One Foundation. In keeping with all past Plant Business Advisory Group meetings, the most valuable outcomes were the detailed discussions and debate about numerous commercial and ethical issues faced by the bush foods industry and commercialisation of cultural heritage.
After a busy week, delegates returned to far-flung locations satisfied, energised and keen as ever to tackle the many difficulties and opportunities continually encountered by those involved in the bush foods industry.
Plant Businsess Advisory Group visiting the Desert Garden Produce Aboriginal Corporation.
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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies Project’s work is done! The project finished up on 30 June 2016. This project has been a great success, as evidenced by the quality of the research publications and strong industry engagement. Strong and enduring relationships have been established with the art centre sectors across remote Australia, at both the community and government stakeholders level.
To mark the project completion, a range of new publications are now available online, including:
- An update on the funding and finances of art centres. This report supplements the findings of the earlier art centre report (which had information up to 2012/13), adding two more years’ data (2013/14 and 2014/15). This report gives the most up-to-date picture of the financial circumstances of remote art centres and is available here.
- A summary of findings from two pieces of research looking at the staffing of art centres. The first project interviewed 21 art centre managers to try to better understand the push and pull factors around their work. A more recent project looked at the perceptions and attitudes of 24 Aboriginal arts workers from central Australia. This summary highlights key findings from each of these projects can be accessed here.
- Kim Petersen’s recent PhD for her work on the sustainability of art centres now has a complementary summary report. This report sets out the key results and practical implications of her research and is available here.
A full list of Art Economies publications can be found here.
Photo: Tim Acker, Gwenda Namatjira from Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre. (Photo: Iris Bendor) and Mabel Wakarta (sitting in front of her painting) and Nola Taylor from Martumili Artists. (Photo: Gabrielle Sullivan, courtesy Martumili Artists) |
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Close to 500 people from 48 countries met in Saskatoon, Canada for the 10th International Rangelands Congress to highlight the “Future Management of Grazing and Wildlands in a High Tech World”. There was a strong Australian presence with approximately 50 Aussies in attendance.
Our Precision Pastoral project was well represented, with Sally Leigo, Tim Driver, David Phelps, Ian Houston, Pieter Conradie, Roy Chisholm and Amy McArdle all attending. The Precision Pastoral Management System (PPMS) is a software system that measures and analyses pasture production and cattle live weight automatically without human labour needed.
The conference ran for five days and provided an excellent opportunity to promote our work. A new film promoting the PPMS was produced for the conference and can be found here.
Our PPMT Research Leader, Sally Leigo, presented a paper on the last day of the conference during the technology session, and fielded numerous questions from Australian, New Zealand and American delegates on the PPMS technology.
Sally, Pieter and David all travelled out to the Western Beef Development Centre to attend a conference field tour to view the latest of local pasture and cattle production research projects. They were impressed with the productive landscape, but were advised by locals that in the Saskatchewan province this year it has been an above average season, resulting in the country looking the best it has in years.
David Phelps, a member of our project team, was elected to represent Australian rangelands on the International Rangelands Congress. All eyes turn to Kenya in 2020, where the next congress will be held.
The team has also been exploring Saskatchewan and Alberta provinces to meet with beef producers to learn more about the Canadian beef supply chain and whether there might be any future applications for the PPMS.
Photos: Kate Forrest and attendees looking at Australia Rangeland data and Members of the Precision Pastoral team Sally Leigo, Tim Driver, David Phelps, Ian Houston, Pieter Conradie, Roy Chisholm and Amy McArdle.
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Curtin PhD student Ranjodh Singh has joined the Population Mobility and Labour Markets as both a research analyst and postgraduate student. Ranjodh is completing his PhD in the area of the Application of Information Theory and has been contracted as a data analyst to manage and analyse the complex survey data being compiled through the mobility surveys. As some of the current PMLM projects provide excellent opportunities to apply statistical information theory, Ranjodh has also accepted a scholarship that will see data from the mobility project be used in a number of chapters of his PhD.
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In June, Principal Research Leader for the Population Mobility and Labour Markets project Mike Dockery attended the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institutes’ (AHURI) Roundtable on Indigenous Housing and Education in Adelaide. Other attendees included researchers from the ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research and other universities and representatives from a number of government housing departments and Aboriginal housing offices and AHURI. The discussion focused on the question of the role that housing circumstances play in shaping educational outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and the best methodology and data for addressing this question. Mike is looking to contribute to collaborations on this research topic through data being collected in the mobility survey and analyses he is currently undertaking using data from the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous children. Watch this space for future publications!
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Skye Akbar, a CRC-REP PhD student, and Ninti One staff member Ingrid Johansen recently attended the Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy, hosted by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, at Columbia University in New York City. The program has an interdisciplinary approach and incorporates lectures and workshops on the most recent and innovative academic research and policy debates affecting Indigenous peoples. It included visits to the United Nations (UN), the Mohawk Nation and key US institutions to hear talks and meet with government officials on Indigenous affairs.
The content of the course was excellent and highly engaging and provided a foundational historical knowledge matched with contemporary examples of how issues had progressed or had been dealt with.
They said that their visit to the Mohawk Nation was incredible, and their meetings with the many community groups revealed much insight into how this independent territory works to resolve issues and build a culture-rich future for their community members. The visit to the UN provided them with insight into the operations of the international body, which was an inspirational experience.
“The most valuable aspect of the course was the opportunity to develop knowledge around the international legality of Indigenous knowledges and rights alongside real examples and lived experiences being shared by participants” says Skye.
 Photo: Ingrid Johanson and Skye Akbar visiting the UN Headquarters
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Remote diary |
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National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day
August 4, 2016
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
August 9, 2016
Northern Beef Research Update Conference
August 15, 2016 - August 18, 2016
Tarrina Field Day
August 24, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdictional Workshop – Darwin
August 30, 2016
Newcastle Waters Field Day
August 31, 2016
Dalgonally Station Field Day
September 7, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdictional workshop – Sydney
September 21, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdictional Workshop – Canberra
September 23, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdictional Workshop – Perth
September 28, 2016
NBPU TIS Jurisdiction Workshop – Adelaide
October 19, 2016
SEGRA Conference 2016
October 25, 2016 - October 28, 2016
The Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference
November 8, 2016 - November 10, 2016
Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference (IBECC)
December 1, 2016 - December 2, 2016
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Publications |
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Barker L, Wilson R, Boughton B, Lovell J, Blackwell B and Burns M. 2015. 'Bringing the outside in’ and ‘Walking the talk’. A synthesis presentation to workshop of sustainable learnings delivered at 2015 ANZSEE Conference Thriving Through Transformation: Local to Global Sustainability, Oorala Aboriginal Centre. 22 October. University of New England, Armidale.
Blackwell B. 2015. Mining wilderness, food and traditional peoples: How to transcend and transform the intractable conflicts between mining and agriculture. ANZSEE 2015 Conference: Thriving Through Transformation – Local to Global Sustainability. 19-23 October. Armidale, NSW. https://capture.une.edu.au/ess/portal/section/1d7d7b8b-8301-4a5d-aa8e-d912d45922ef.
Blackwell B. 2015. Valuing common good institutions in society: An example from remote Australia for remote Australia. ANZSEE 2015 Conference: Thriving Through Transformation – Local to Global Sustainability. 19-23 October. Armidale, NSW. https://capture.une.edu.au/ess/portal/section/1d7d7b8b-8301-4a5d-aa8e-d912d45922ef.
Blackwell B, Fischer A and McFarlane J. 2015. Enduring Community Value from Mining project recent findings - mapping and tracking mining. ANZSEE 2015 Conference: Thriving Through Transformation – Local to Global Sustainability. 19-23 October. Armidale, NSW. https://capture.une.edu.au/ess/portal/section/1d7d7b8b-8301-4a5d-aa8e-d912d45922ef.
Cairney S, O'Connor N, Dingwall K, Maruff P, Shafiq-Antonacci R, Currie J and Currie B. 2013. A prospective study of neurocognitive changes 15 years after chronic inhalant abuse. Addiction. 108, pp. 1107-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12124.
Dingwall K and Cairney S. 2011. Detecting psychological symptoms related to substance abuse among Indigenous Australians. Drug and Alcohol Review. 30, 1. pp. 33-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00194.x.
Dingwall K and Cairney S. 2011. Recovery from central nervous system changes following volatile solvent misuse [Review]. Substance Use and Misuse. 46 Suppl, 1. pp. 73-83.
Dingwall K, LIndeman M and Cairney S. 2014. “You’ve got to make it relevant”: barriers and ways forward for assessing cognition in Aboriginal clients. BMC Psychology. 2, 13. pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-2-13.
Dingwall K, Maruff P and Cairney S. 2011. Neuropsychological problems and alcohol availability key factors in continued heavy alcohol use for Aboriginal Australians [Letter]. Medical Journal of Australia. 94, 1. pp. 50-51.
Dingwall K, Maruff P and Cairney S. 2011. Similar profile of cognitive impairment and recovery for Aboriginal Australians in treatment for episodic or chronic alcohol use. Addiction. 106, 8. pp. 1419-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03434.x.
Dingwall K, Maruff P, Fredrickson A and Cairney S. 2011. Cognitive recovery during and after treatment for volatile solvent abuse. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 118, 2-3. pp. 180-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.03.017
Guenther J. 2015. Successful remote schools: What are they? RES Lecture Series #05. Broome. 29 July.
Lovell J and Guenther J. 2015. Developing Northern Australia: recognising remote mixed-market economies. Developing Northern Australia Conference (DNAC). 20–22 July. Townsville.
McFarlane J, Blackwell B and Mounter S. 2015. Good gardening for a perennial economy: what’s the optimal growth path for a regional economy? In Proceedings of Asia Pacific Conference on Business and Social Sciences 2015. Kuala Lumpur. 23-24 November. Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences. pp. 66-79.
Priest N, Paradies Y, Gunthorpe W, Cairney S and Sayers S. 2011. Racism as a determinant of social and emotional wellbeing for Aboriginal Australian youth. Medical Journal of Australia. 194, 10. pp. 546-50.
Book chapters
Lovell J and Zoellner D. forthcoming (2016). Other views of Northern Australian aspirations: pre-notions, ideologies and remoteness. In Northern Research Futures. Ed. Harwood S, Gerritsen R, Prideaux B, Brewer T, Rosenman L and Dale A. ANU Press. Canberra.
Zoellner D and Lovell J. forthcoming (2016). Contemporary Indigenous settlements: mixed market approaches. In Settlements at the Edge: Remote Human Settlements in Developed Nations. Ed. Taylor A, Carson D, Ensign P, Huskey L, Rasmussen R and Saxinger G. Edward Elgar Publishing. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA.
Zoellner D and Lovell J. forthcoming (2016). National data: reflecting Northern Australian aspirations? In Northern Research Futures. Ed. Harwood S, Gerritsen R, Prideaux B, Brewer T, Rosenman L and Dale A. ANU Press. Canberra.
Conference papers
Lovell J. 2016. Key factors in the attraction and retention of local remote staff: case studies from northern Australia. Developing Northern Australia Conference (DNAC). 20–22 June. Darwin.
Project updates and summaries, policy briefs
Acker T, Congreve S and Whittle M. 2016. Art centres and human resources. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
Acker T. 2016. Project update 06: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies April 2016. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
Lee LS. 2016. Project update 05: Plant Business April 2016. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
McRae-Williams E. 2016. Pathways to Employment: Case study research about aspirations for employment and education. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
McRae-Williams E. 2016. Pathways to Employment: Census data analysis of employment and education in remote Australia. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
McRae-Williams E. 2016. Pathways to Employment: Policy Briefing. Ninti One Ltd. Alice Springs.
McRae-Williams E. 2016. Pathways to Employment: Workshop summary. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
Williams K. 2016. Project update 02: Climate Change Adaptation, Energy and Transport Futures April 2016. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
Thesis
Petersen K. 2016. Sustainability of remote Aboriginal art centres in Australian desert communities. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.
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