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  • Denying Citizens Their Rights? Indigenous People, Mining Payments and Service Provision

    Author(s)
    O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran
    Griffith University Author(s)
    O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran S.
    Year published
    2004
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    Abstract
    Indigenous Australians have a growing capacity to extract monetary payments from mineral development on their traditional lands. Considerable controversy surrounds the possible use of these payments to fund services such as health, housing and education for the Indigenous groups concerned. Critics of such an approach argue that government should provide basic public services to all citizens, and that use of 'mining payments' for service provision denies Indigenous people specific compensation for the negative impacts of mining and an important opportunity to enhance their economic status. There is also a danger that government ...
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    Indigenous Australians have a growing capacity to extract monetary payments from mineral development on their traditional lands. Considerable controversy surrounds the possible use of these payments to fund services such as health, housing and education for the Indigenous groups concerned. Critics of such an approach argue that government should provide basic public services to all citizens, and that use of 'mining payments' for service provision denies Indigenous people specific compensation for the negative impacts of mining and an important opportunity to enhance their economic status. There is also a danger that government may reduce its existing spending on services, leaving Indigenous people no better off as a result of allowing mining to occur. This article argues that while there are certainly risks involved in using mining payments to fund services, Indigenous groups can generate substantial net benefits by doing so. Mining payments can leverage additional government spending; fund services at a level or of a sort that government will not provide; give Indigenous people greater control over service provision; and help develop Indigenous organisational skills and governance capacity. A strategic approach is required to minimise risk and maximise the available benefits, and the article identifies policy principles that can be applied to secure such an outcome.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Public Administration
    Volume
    63
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8500.2004.00377.x
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.2004.00377.x
    Copyright Statement
    © 2004 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at [www.blackwell-synergy.com.]
    Subject
    Economics
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
    Studies in Human Society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/5353
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