Aboriginals and the Mining Industry - Case Studies of the Australian Experience

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Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

1 Aboriginal employment in mining: an overview

2 Bauxite mining at Weipa

3 Mount Isa Mines Limited

4 Bauxite mining and processing at Gove Peninsula

5 Manganese mining on Groote Eylandt

6 Uranium mining in the Alligator Rivers region

7 Iron ore mining in the Pilbara

8 Mineral exploration in the Kimberley and the Argyle diamond project

9 Conclusions and government policy implications

Appendix 9

Select bibliography

Index

About the author

The authors have a wide range of teaching, research and publishing experience on the Australian economy. DAVID COUSINS has focused his research on the economics of consumer welfare and applied industry studies, his latest publication being Aboriginal Unemployment in Australia. JOHN NIEUWENHUYSEN has produced a number of books on economic and industrial policy, including Australian Economic Policy and Australia: Competitive and Prices Policy (with N. Norman).

Summary

Aboriginals and the Mining Industry reviews the participation of Aborigines in mining company employment. It examines the contribution of land rights legislation to protecting Aboriginal interests, and it asks how far the growth of mining in remote parts of Australia has aided the economic development of Aboriginal groups living there. Detai

Product details

• Authors: David Cousins, David Nieuwenhuysen Cousins, Cousins David, John Nieuwenhuysen, Nieuwenhuysen John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367717360
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71736-0
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, NATURE / Rocks & Minerals, LAW / Labor & Employment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Indigenous Peoples, Mining Industry, Agribusiness and primary industries