2012
DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2012.666212
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Death by a Thousand Grants? The Challenge of Grant Funding Reliance for Local Government Councils in the Northern Territory of Australia

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“…Since the 1970s, community-controlled entities had to bureaucratize to survive (Rowse 1992, Kapferer 1995, Altman 2016). The Indigenous sector has been swamped by NPM contracting and acquittal overloads (Michel & Taylor 2012, Sullivan 2018) then starved by a subsequent reentry of church-based and other non-Indigenous intermediaries, who compete for shrinking funds to offer a shadow play of disjointed social services under outsourcing arrangements. Even when Indigenous and bureaucratic aspirations ostensibly align-as with "caring for country" environmental programs-the cooption is relentless (Nadasdy 2005, West 2006, Mathews 2008, Fache 2014.…”
Section: Lament and Desirementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since the 1970s, community-controlled entities had to bureaucratize to survive (Rowse 1992, Kapferer 1995, Altman 2016). The Indigenous sector has been swamped by NPM contracting and acquittal overloads (Michel & Taylor 2012, Sullivan 2018) then starved by a subsequent reentry of church-based and other non-Indigenous intermediaries, who compete for shrinking funds to offer a shadow play of disjointed social services under outsourcing arrangements. Even when Indigenous and bureaucratic aspirations ostensibly align-as with "caring for country" environmental programs-the cooption is relentless (Nadasdy 2005, West 2006, Mathews 2008, Fache 2014.…”
Section: Lament and Desirementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both Harwood et al (2011) and Faulkner and Vikulov (2001) may have overestimated the capacity of the town in particular to recover economically and demographically as quickly as observed in Gällivare. Katherine town did not return to 1996 population levels until 2007, and its growth since has been predicated on the continued expansion of the public sector workforce, including substantial local government employment as local government offices for the surrounding region became located in Katherine town after local government reforms in 2007 (Michel and Taylor 2012). Public sector employment in health, welfare, education and protective services also increased dramatically as a result of the 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response, an Australian Government programme designed to combat reported high levels of domestic violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communities (Taylor and Carson 2009).…”
Section: Katherine-daly and Cyclone Lesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Those already on CDEP were 'grandfathered' as employed and as wage earners, while new CDEP entrants were limited to receive Newstart from Centrelink, classified as unemployed and not afforded the option to earn additional income without the disincentive of the social security taper-deprived of a significant benefit of CDEP participation locally referred to as 'top up'. 18 17 As Thomas Michel reminded me in reviewing this chapter, in the midst of all this CDEP reform upheaval, the NT Government also introduced reform of local government with the amalgamation of 53 councils with predominantly Indigenous populations into eight regional shires with its own set of intended and unintended consequences (see Michel & Taylor 2014 These changes not only affected the well-being of the many individuals who could no longer earn top up without losing some income support but also undermined their incentive to work. This resulted in Bawinanga struggling to recruit CDEP participants to its enterprises as they could not earn income above Newstart.…”
Section: The Great Crash: Bawinanga's 'Near Death' Experiencementioning
confidence: 99%