Livelihoods inLand™ Jobs, health, culture Introduction Our research Our research wants to find out good Aboriginal people ways to get ‘healthy jobs on country’ for Aboriginal people. Many people look after plants want jobs and also want to live on and animals on their country. We need to make new jobs so that people can earn money country. This is and be healthy through looking after country. Many people are tired of important for the training that does not lead to jobs. health and culture of Aboriginal Photo courtesy Dick Kimber Community rangers people as well In many places Aboriginal people are forming community ranger groups as part of looking after country. Some Aboriginal people are starting to work in national as for other parks. Australians. We want to understand the important things that make work in community ranger groups and in national parks successful. This is so other Aboriginal people can learn from success, and so that governments and other people will support more successes.

The issues

Aboriginal people Photo courtesy Jo Caffery say that if they are PROJECT FACT SHEET going to be healthy they need to look Photo courtesy Craig James after country and Jobs instead of CDEP need to have jobs. CDEP guidelines are changing, and we want to know how people are using CDEP to help them look after country. We can tell governments about this, so that new CDEP policies will recognise the need for Doing the research jobs and looking after country. We are developing this research and will be doing it in partnership with people from universities, governments © Steve Strike and Aboriginal organisations. Contact: We want community people and Project Leader: Jocelyn Davies organisations who are working to look CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems after country to be a part of this research [email protected] partnership. Ph: 088950 7100

Fax: 088950 7187 © Peter Canty www.csiro.au www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au Other questions for this research: • How can Aboriginal people get away from short-term stop-start funding for looking after country? • Is there a way to make a business in looking after country? • How do Aboriginal people know when country is well looked after? • What is country like when it is well looked after? • Is this the same as what government people and scientists want well-looked after country to be like? • What are the links between looking after country and people’s health and wellbeing? • What sort of work on country will lead to better health and wellbeing for people?

This research is part of Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre’s Core Project 1: Livelihoods through managing natural and cultural resources: benefiting Australia.

Core partners (CLC) Charles Darwin University Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Curtin University of Technology Desert Peoples Centre Government of Western Australia Northern Territory Government Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC) Centre partners Griffith University James Cook University Murdoch University Newmont Australia University of South Australia Associate partners Department of Primary Industries, NSW Flinders University (Centre for Remote Health) South Australian Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation Southern Cross University Tapatjatjaka Community Government Council The Australian National University The The University of Queensland The University of Western Australia University of Wollongong Affiliate partners Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Indigenous Australian Foods Robins Foods Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi Contacts: Desert Knowledge CRC PO Box 3971 Northern Territory 0871 Fact sheet: 64 08 8950 7162 Project: 1.102 More information: Last updated: March 2007 www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au