New Public Management, Aboriginal Organisations, and Indigenous Rights

Urban Aboriginal organisations have a distinctive role in society in relation to urban Aboriginal peoples and their rights to self-determination and community development. They have proven essential to advocacy, the maintenance of community development, and the creation of new social infrastructure, with their success resulting in both economic and in social outcomes. This project seeks to understand the effects of the most recent NPM reforms, particularly in NSW, on the capacity of successful urban Aboriginal organisations, as well as how NPM practices could be reconfigured to accommodate their distinctive role based on an analysis of case studies from other international jurisdictions (such as New Zealand and Canada).