Each June, employers covered under the Employment Equity Act submit annual reports. These reports describe the employment situation of the four designated groups (women, aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorites), and the progress that these employers have made toward achieving an equitable workforce during the year. This document consolidates and analyses these reports. It consists of four chapters that present: the steps that employers took to achieve a representative workforce; economic and labour market conditions; the designated group profiles; and the assessment of employers' results. A consolidation of employers' reports is also presented.

In the public debate about the success or failure of Australia's Indigenous policies, opinions have been grounded more often in personal experience than in social scientists' research. This work asks: What vision of the good life should guide an assessment of policy?

The engagement of Indigenous Australians in economic activity is a matter of long-standing public concern and debate. Jon Altman has been intellectually engaged with Indigenous economic activity for almost 40 years, most prominently through his elaboration of the concept of the hybrid economy, and most recently through his sustained and trenchant critique of policy. He has inspired others also to engage with these important issues, both through his writing and through his position as the foundation Director of The Australian National University’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy research from 1990 to 2010. The year 2014 saw both Jon’s 60th birthday and his retirement from CAEPR. This collection of essays marks those events. Contributors include long?standing colleagues from the disciplines of economics, anthropology and political science, and younger scholars who have been inspired by Jon’s approach in developing their own research projects. All point to the complexity as well as the importance of engaging with Indigenous economic activity — conceptually, empirically and as a strategic concern for public policy.

Debates the crucial issue of how Indigenous self-determination and the rights agenda, which argues for the unique and inherent rights of Indigenous Australians, sits with, or in opposition to, the mutual obligation theories of the Howard government's welfare reform.

Transformation of Australia's population, 1970-2030.