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VisionResilient remote communities and businesses that enrich Australia through their vigour, cultural integrity, innovativeness and sustainable use of resources.

MissionThrough research, innovation, expertise, education and outreach, the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (CRC‑REP) will provide the knowledge base essential to create thriving remote communities and economies.

ValuesThrough our work we build relationships that improve the lives of people in remote Australia.

Our values:

èè We respect the cultural diversity and cultural authority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

èè We will exhibit courage, innovation and entrepreneurship in our work

èè Integrity, accountability, empathy, listening and learning will characterise our dealing with people

CRC‑REP Annual Report 2014–15 • PAGE 1

ContentsFigures and tables ................................................................................................3 1 Executive summary ..........................................................................................4

1.1 Achievements .............................................................................................4 1.1.1 Research .........................................................................................4

1.1.2 Commercialisation and Utilisation ....................................................7

1.1.3 Education and Training ....................................................................7

1.1.4 Awards and Other Special Activities ...............................................7

1.2 Risks and impediments ...............................................................................8 1.3 End‑user environment ................................................................................9

1.4 Impacts .......................................................................................................9

2 Performance against activities .....................................................................11

2.1 Progress against the key challenges/outcomes .......................................11

2.2 Research ..................................................................................................12

2.2.1 Research Program 1: Regional Economies ...................................14

2.2.2 Research Program 2: Enterprise Development .............................17

2.2.3 Research Program 3: Investing in People ......................................19

2.3 Education and training ..............................................................................22

2.4 SME engagement .....................................................................................23 2.5 Commercialisation and utilisation ............................................................24

2.6 Intellectual property management ............................................................25

2.7 Communications........................................................................................26

3 Governance .....................................................................................................29 3.1 Governance – Board, committees and key staff ........................................29 3.1.1 The Board ......................................................................................29

3.1.2 Committees ....................................................................................33

3.1.3 Key personnel ................................................................................35


3.2 Participants ...............................................................................................36

3.3 Collaboration .............................................................................................39

3.4 Financial management .............................................................................40

4 Other activities ................................................................................................41 4.1 International collaboration ......................................................................41

5 Glossary of terms ...........................................................................................42 6 Contact details ................................................................................................43

Appendices ..........................................................................................................44 Appendix 1: Performance Review ....................................................................44 Appendix 2: Publications ..................................................................................50 Appendix 3: PhD Students ...............................................................................60

Appendix 4: Events, Conferences and Workshops table..................................62

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Figures and tables Figure 1 The CRC‑REP’s Program structure 12

Table 1 Full list of CRC‑REP Board members and their key skills 30

Table 2 Attendance at CRC‑REP Board meetings 32

Table 3 Attendance at Audit and Risk Management Committee meetings

33

Table 4 Attendance at Intellectual Property and Ethics, Research Quality and Innovation Committee meetings

34

Table 5 Key Personnel 35

Table 6 List of participants 36


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This Annual Report details the progress of the research programs and outreach activities of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic

Participation (CRC‑REP), managed by Ninti One Limited, for the 2014–15 reporting period. During the period, which marked the fifth year of operations of the CRC‑REP, our research teams made significant progress and produced important evidence‑based findings, which contribute to a better understanding of remote Australia, increasing capacity for economic growth and informing policy directions. The CRC‑REP Performance Review, held in June 2014, provided some additional guidance and areas for focus in this financial year and for the remaining period of the CRC‑REP’s term. The production of materials and publications for distribution to stakeholders and end users greatly increased from the previous year; based on the feedback being received, these are proving to be useful and practical materials on the ground, bringing tangible benefits for businesses, governments and communities. Work towards implementing the key strategic activities outlined in our CRC‑REP Transition Plan is well advanced, and the Board of Ninti One remains committed to maximising the successful uptake and adoption of the research outcomes from the CRC‑REP, which is due to conclude its term in June 2017.

1.1 Achievements

1.1.1 RESEARCH

The focus of the CRC‑REP research agenda remains the delivery of solutions to the economic challenges that affect remote Australia and the development of new ways to build resilience and strengthen regional and remote communities and economies. The CRC‑REP research has a strong emphasis on enterprise development, improving the education and training pathways in remote areas and increasing the economic participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

CRC‑REP activities and projects underway since 2011 strongly align with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Indigenous Advancement Strategy, with its focus on jobs, land and economy; children and schooling; safety and wellbeing; culture and capability; and remote Australia strategies.


During this reporting period, CRC‑REP met all the Commonwealth research milestones. Key achievements across the three CRC‑REP Programs include:

REGIONAL ECONOMIES PROGRAM

èè The extensive fieldwork for the Population Mobility and Labour Markets project is well advanced, with the survey being rolled out across 20 Aboriginal communities in central Australia. The information collected from the surveys is focused on how people in central Australia move around and why, to enable better planning for service delivery, road upgrades and transport systems such as the Bush Bus.

èè The Enduring Community Value from Mining project is developing a hands‑on Toolkit for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and corporations as well as local government to assist with the necessary early planning for a sustainable future based on corporate social responsibility drivers.

èè The Enduring Community Value from Mining project will soon have a landmark textbook – containing 10 chapters, each from different parts of the project – published with Springer Publishing, titled ‘Labour Force Mobility in the Australian Resources Industry: Socio‑Economic and Regional Impacts’.

èè The Climate Change Adaptation and Energy Futures project research analysed transport systems in remote Australia and found that a large number of households are in a situation of ‘transport stress’. There is a real need to address current transport shortages in order to improve the economic participation and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in very remote communities. This project is now closely aligned with the Population Mobility and Labour Markets project in terms of data and data analysis techniques.

ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

èè In the Aboriginal Cultural Enterprise project, extensive fieldwork was undertaken to further develop business opportunities based on Aboriginal culture and traditional knowledge in remote Western Australia.

èè The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies project produced an array of research outputs, and many of the statistical analyses were further portrayed through a Remote Australia Online Art Atlas (in two parts) that allows, for the first time, visual regional comparisons and value chain analysis of the sector with a few mouse clicks. End‑user interest and uptake have been particularly noteworthy.

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èè In the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product project, a large amount of on‑ground activity has taken place to further understand the nature and advantages of clustering of tourism enterprises in remote locations.

èè In the Precision Pastoral Management Tools project, the prototype for the Precision Pastoral Management System was researched on five remote operating pastoral stations.

èè In the Plant Business project, 1100 bush tomato plants have been propagated and sown in a field trial.

INVESTING IN PEOPLE PROGRAM

èè Aboriginal Community Researchers have undertaken the first wave of surveys for the Interplay Between Health, Wellbeing, Education and Employment project. Conducted in four remote communities, the surveys are based on the project’s innovative Interplay Wellbeing Framework. Survey design was informed by extensive consultation and the project’s literature review.

èè The Pathways to Employment project conducted a major two‑day engagement activity in October 2014, with stakeholders and advisers to the project coming from around remote Australia to be updated on progress and to provide grounded advice. The case study work is well underway and is nearing completion.

èè In the Remote Education Systems project (RES) the project team has developed a ‘Red Dirt Curriculum’ national workshop series based on best practices in remote education and ongoing feedback from remote education practitioners and policy developers. The ideas and findings from the RES project are now being actively promulgated through the CRC’s stakeholder and partner agencies. RES project PhD researcher Sam Osborne received the award for the most outstanding contribution to Aboriginal education in the NT in late 2014. Assoc. Prof. John Guenther, RES project leader, led the development and publication of a Special Issue of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, focusing on the ‘Red Dirt’ theme as it applies more broadly across CRC‑REP research.

ACROSS THE CRC‑REP

èè The CRC‑REP’s research was recorded in 40 peer‑reviewed publications, including journals such as the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, the Journal of Economic and Social Policy, Tourism Management and The Rangeland Journal. An additional 106 publications for end users were produced this year.

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èè The research quality performance for the CRC‑REP peer‑reviewed publications was double that of the previous year, with a HERDC score of 37.

èè Professional researcher staffing for the year was 55 (FTE).

èè Technical and other support staff was at 21.4 (FTE).

èè The number of postgraduate students was 14.6 (FTE).

èè This provides a paid researcher and supporting workforce in the CRC‑REP of 91 (FTE) plus in‑kind contribution.

1.1.2 COMMERCIALISATION AND UTILISATION

The CRC‑REP strives to create and capture as much value from its activities as possible, with processes and protocols in place to maximise this capital, underpinned by its ‘Output to Usage to Impact Plan’ developed for every project.

Most of the knowledge and other outputs from the CRC‑REP’s research are freely available in the public domain and are made available to end users and other stakeholders using strategies outlined in each project’s Communications Plan.

Two projects, the Precision Pastoral Management Tools project and the Plant Business project, however, have clearly identified commercialisable products as project outputs, and appropriate strategies are being used to manage their intellectual property as it is developed.

1.1.3 EDUCATION AND TRAINING

There are 21 students currently associated with the CRC‑REP, from VET, Honours, Masters and PhD programs, and all student milestones have been met. These students are embedded in all projects and activities across the CRC‑REP and receive additional cross‑project student training.

1.1.4 AWARDS AND OTHER SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

Key achievements include:

èè The CRC‑REP has completed 12 of the 13 recommendations from the CRC‑REP Performance Review. A summary of these actions is provided in Appendix 1. To respond to the remaining recommendation, the Board is

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set to undertake an independent external review agreement in December 2015.

èè The Best Paper Award at the Conference on Business and Social Sciences 2015: Towards Research Excellence in Business and Social Sciences was given to the presentation by Blackwell et al. (2015): Employment leakage by Local Government Area in the Northern Territory, Australia: The roles of industries, including mining (see Appendix 2 for full reference).

èè We were invited to participate in the Productivity Commission’s Round Table regarding Geographic Labour Force Mobility and made several invited submissions into the Productivity Commission’s analysis through both the Population Mobility and Labour Markets and the Enduring Community Value from Mining projects.

èè CRC‑REP collaborated with 118 organisations, of which 36 were small to medium enterprises (SMEs), in research activities and with many more in stakeholder events coordinated by the CRC‑REP where research findings were presented. There were 80 such events, which were attended by 2476 people.

èè The RES project’s senior researcher, Sam Osborne, received the award for the most outstanding contribution to Aboriginal education in the NT in late 2014.

èè We advocated for remote Australia through making a number of submissions to the Australian Government.

èè Remote Australia Online Atlas (RAOA) was further developed in conjunction with Ninti One as an online tool that provides detailed data specific to remote Australia in an attractive and visual form. RAOA is the new component of the larger web‑based research portal Remote Australia Online, which has 498 CRC‑REP publications listed and is fully searchable online from both the Ninti One and CRC‑REP web sites.

1.2 Risks and impedimentsThe Audit and Risk Management Committee monitors risks quarterly and reports to the Board. Risks are recorded in the risk register, which is reviewed annually by the Executive Management Team and the Board.

The areas of risk monitored are:

èè Change in government policy for funding or ranking causing a change in university partner priorities


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èè Capacity risks

èè A critical incident occurring

èè Failing to ensure the appropriate mix of skills and cross‑cultural background and understanding in the organisation

èè Reduced organisational capacity and corporate knowledge, including loss of personnel with specialist skills

èè Failing to deliver projects on time and within budget

èè Reputational communication risks

èè Inappropriate cross‑cultural behaviour

èè Inadequate engagement of, and knowledge translation to, end users

The CRC‑REP has a comprehensive project management system overseen by the Executive team, which is used in managing risks.

1.3 End-user environmentAll of the CRC‑REP’s projects engage extensively with partners, end users, Project Advisory Group members and other stakeholders through regular workshops, forums and symposia. During the period, 80 events were organised, bringing 2476 end users and researchers together. Regular project updates are sent to end users, and the monthly Ninti One newsletter, which includes CRC‑REP stories, has a subscription of 3800 people.

1.4 ImpactsThe Output to Usage to Impact Framework, established at the beginning of the CRC‑REP, sets out the approach to create, identify and extract value for the participants, stakeholders and possible third party users of the outcomes of CRC‑REP research. Based on this Framework, each of the CRC‑REP’s research projects has developed an Output to Usage to Impact Plan that describes how and when the outputs in the project proposals will be used and the CRC’s actions to assist usage and uptake. Each project and its associated plan is reviewed annually in March as part of in‑house project reviews. The plans also incorporate the measurable impacts from the CRC‑REP’s Commonwealth Agreement and Economic Impact Projection Tool, thereby producing an integrated approach to project governance and impact planning. They underpin the delivery of these research project milestones and guide their real impact, translation and adoption.


Associated with the Output to Usage to Impact Plans are the project Communications Plans, which ensure awareness, distribution and use of our research. Communications Plans have been developed and completed for all projects and are reviewed annually with the project teams.

Due to the mainly public‑good nature of CRC‑REP’s research, most outputs are published immediately upon development, in various forms designed to suit all types of stakeholders. This maximises utilisation of CRC‑REP outputs by stakeholders and end users.

Many CRC‑REP outputs are published outside the academic literature and are targeted at stakeholders such as government departments, local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities or private companies. These publications are now recognised in a new category created for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2015 round, benefiting university CRC partners who now have these important stakeholder publications counted as part of the ERA assessment process.

In addition, and as requested by the Ninti One Board as part of exhibiting research quality national best practice, CRC‑REP outputs are now classified under the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) publications quality metric. HERDC comprises an analysis of research income and research publications data submitted by our researchers each year. HERDC is a new Australian Government mechanism for assessing university research performance.

In 2014–15 the HERDC score for peer‑reviewed publications was 37, which is more than double that achieved in the previous year. More than 72% of published journal papers were in B ranked or better journals, and 3 journals were published in A and A* ranked journals.

We have undertaken an impact analysis of our work across CRC‑REP and Ninti One. Impact on policy is now a component of our impact analysis and is integrated into each project’s Communications Plan. Ninti Management System (NMS) now captures all the data required to accurately track our impact on policy.

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2 Performance against activities2.1 Progress against the key challenges/outcomes

A ll of the CRC‑REP’s research programs made excellent progress in 2014–15, and all Commonwealth milestones were met. On‑ground research is now

completed or nearing completion in all projects and is producing the first, and in some cases the follow‑up, round of evidence‑based data, findings and materials for distribution to stakeholders and end users.

Annual internal research project reviews were held in March 2015, where a panel comprising the Ninti One Managing Director and Executive team interviewed and provided feedback to the Principal Research Leader of each of the CRC‑REP’s projects.

Stakeholder engagement remains strong and increased significantly during the year. On‑ground end‑user participation also continued to grow, with a particular emphasis on our research outputs being further communicated within remote communities.

Workshops, seminars and other outreach activities conducted by the CRC‑REP and/or its partners saw the presentation of results from structured research, surveys and analysis to more than 2476 end users during the year at events held across the country. Some research collaborators have reported significant impacts from participation in the research and attendance at presentations of findings. There has been ongoing strong demand from stakeholders for research findings, with a ‘snowballing’ demand observed as news of the findings travels through remote industries and communities.

An ongoing strong working relationship with RemoteBiz assisted with conducting on‑ground research across several projects (especially the Mobility and Interplay projects), utilising the services of the Aboriginal Community Researchers. These researchers assist with developing and delivering the on‑ground surveys, semi‑structured interviews and other related research. Surveys are typically conducted in the local Aboriginal language, using computer tablets.

Student interest and recruitment increased markedly over the year. All student placements with the CRC have now been filled.


2.2 ResearchThe CRC‑REP has three underpinning goals, which translate into the three research programs (Figure 1):

èè To develop new ways to build resilience and thus strengthen regional communities and economies across remote Australia (Program 1: Regional Economies)

èè To build new enterprises and further strengthen existing industries to provide jobs, livelihoods and incomes in remote areas (Program 2: Enterprise Development)

èè To improve the education and training pathways in remote areas so that people have better opportunities to participate in the range of economies that exist (Program 3: Investing in People).

Regional EconomiesInvesting in Regional Economies through:• Mobilityandlabourmarkets• Maximisingregionalimpactand

enduringvalueofminingandlargeresourcedevelopment

• Climateandenergyfutures

Investing in PeopleInvesting in People through:• Theinterplaybetweenhealth,

wellbeing,educationandemployment• Pathwaystoworkandenterprise• Remoteeducationandtraining

Enterprise DevelopmentInvesting in Enterprise Development through:• Economicparticipationfromcultural

knowledge• Technologyandinnovation

transformingremotebusinesses

CRC for Remote Economic

Participation

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Figure 1: The CRC-REP’s Program structure



The three Research Programs are designed using an integrated whole‑of‑system approach, where elements of the research are all mutually supportive, in a bid to understand the key drivers and causes of the economic challenges in remote areas and to identify successful and innovative methods to overcome them. This is further assisted by a recently commenced Synthesis and Integration activity that spans all three Research Programs in terms of common issues, causes and effects and the cross‑project findings.

The research programs are helping to clarify and quantify the barriers to economic engagement, which is fundamental for informed, evidence‑based policymaking. These barriers include isolation, lack of job opportunities or training, ongoing education needs, the cost of doing business in the bush, the high mobility of the workforce, fragile supply chains, socio‑ economic factors, limited telecommunications, high production costs and limited access to markets. The CRC‑REP particularly researches entities and individuals who have successfully surmounted these barriers and who have established robust, dynamic and viable enterprises in remote Australia that can serve as models, case studies and sources of inspiration to others.

Two Research General Managers have day‑to‑day responsibility to guide and monitor the progress of the 12 projects across the three program areas. They report weekly to Ninti One Executive Management Team meetings and provide summary progress reports to each quarterly Board meeting. The Managing Director of Ninti One oversees the overall progress and performance of the CRC against the approved Research Plan and associated milestones with the Commonwealth. The Ninti One Board provides regular feedback and advice to the General Managers via the Managing Director.



2.2.1 RESEARCH PROGRAM 1: REGIONAL ECONOMIES

The research from this program contributes to an understanding of the factors involved in building robust regional economies across remote Australia. This is undertaken by working in close partnership with governments, research institutions, industry and the remote communities themselves. The aims of Research Program 1 are to provide advice and to document the on‑ground impacts around sustainable employment, enterprise opportunities and labour force mobility, all of which are vital to increasing the level of economic participation in remote Australia.

The three research projects in the Regional Economies research program are:

èè Population Mobility and Labour Markets

èè Enduring Community Value from Mining

èè Climate Change Adaptation and Energy Futures.

Program research highlights

Following the successful pilot study last year, the main survey for the Population Mobility and Labour Markets project began in collaboration with the CRC‑REP’s Essential Participant, RemoteBiz, which provided the Aboriginal Community Researchers. These researchers are using computer tablets to collect survey responses in 20 remote communities in the Alice Springs region. The field research is being conducted over a period of two and a half years, with four visits planned to each community. The overall aim is to establish a better understanding of Aboriginal mobility in the context of service, infrastructure and utility provision. This work is focused on the reasons and frequency people move to the regional centre (i.e. Alice Springs) and the town camps, as well as why people move back to remote communities and outstations.

Initial responses have been processed as part of the ongoing analysis of trends. As at April 2015, 844 responses to the baseline survey had been collected from people across the 20 remote communities in the NT, and 373 people had completed the first follow‑up survey. Early results confirm the persistence of country, kin and culture, along with contemporary service delivery models, as key drivers of temporary mobility. The results challenge the common Western view of mobility as a barrier to economic participation, finding instead that barriers to mobility, such as the lack of driver’s licences and low vehicle access, are what limit employment outcomes for people in these remote communities.


The Enduring Community Value from Mining (ECVM) project is working across remote NT, SA and WA, with its research projects located in places as varied as Tom Price, Onslow, Port Hedland, Karratha, Paraburdoo and Ravensthorpe (WA); Leigh Creek and Roxby Downs (SA); and the Ranger mine at Jabiru in Kakadu (NT). There is also work occurring in Mandurah and Busselton (WA), which is looking at the ‘source’ or feeder communities for long‑distance commuting (LDC) and fly‑in/fly‑out (FIFO) operations. This project is spanning an entire boom/bust cycle of the minerals industry, so commentary and research are based on describing both extremes and how communities can best plan for such cycles. The boom in LDC to mine sites across remote Australia brings opportunities for communities supplying the workers, but it also brings challenges, especially during times of low commodity prices when staffing and activity contract. At regional and community scales, there are some better practices that can be planned for in advance, such as educating families of FIFO workers about the common issues and challenges experienced when one family member is working away from home for extended periods. Under the overall theme of corporate responsibility, work on developing a hands‑on ECVM Toolkit for local communities, Shires and Aboriginal Corporations is well advanced to ensure that the necessary early planning for the future, typically based around a single resource company, is put into place at the outset. The ECVM research is already pointing to a need to better predict and therefore manage growth pressures by planning around the typical mine life cycle through a collaborative approach by all spheres of government, local Aboriginal Corporations, the community and industry. This is essential for both planning for and subsequently providing the appropriate physical infrastructure and local community engagement as well as social support.

Significant analysis has been underway to compare local government regions that have a particular focus on mining with the rest of the State/Territory in terms of the depth and breadth of the local economy and its ability to cope with mine site closures and government regional service withdrawals, for example, in Gove and Ranger (NT) and Leigh Creek (SA). The study is examining variables such as demographics, labour force participation, housing status, community profiles and industry sector contribution to gross regional production. Much of the research and the associated issues with LDC were shown in the ABC three‑part series, Flying Miners, which aired in October and November.



For some selected remote regions (Jabiru, Tennant Creek, Leigh Creek, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara [APY] Lands), the project is analysing resource activities by tracking and mapping mining labour stocks and flows, common benefits, income leakages from both source and receiver communities and enduring community value from mining. During late 2014, a FIFO research consultancy based in Geraldton (WA) completed all the contextual research regarding demographic and labour force data for the Mid West region. Sixteen face‑to‑face interviews with Aboriginal organisations, employment agencies and local and regional government agencies were conducted. The first of the labour force interviews were also conducted. The project concluded in late February 2015. Related outputs include:

èè A peer‑reviewed book (nearing completion) for Springer Publishing: ‘Labour Force Mobility in the Australian Resources Industry: Socio‑Economic and Regional Impacts’. The book has 10 chapters, all describing work in different parts of the ECVM project

èè Several invited submissions into the Productivity Commission’s recent analysis of geographic labour mobility.

The Climate Change Adaptation and Energy Futures project is looking at the intensifying impacts of climate change in remote Australia and the diminishing affordability and supply of conventional energy supplies and transport systems. These are driving forces that have created uncertainty about the future for communities, businesses and landscapes in remote Australia. While people and businesses are adapting to these changes, there is a lack of reliable, locally specific information about how to invest in transformative change that is positive, strategic and long‑term.

This project uses participatory research with local communities and businesses to establish how different people, businesses and service organisations in remote Australia can have a more vibrant and economically enhanced future. Preliminary analysis indicates that ‘energy poverty’ is far more prevalent among low‑income households in central Australia than previously reported. And under projected climate change scenarios for central Australia, household energy costs could double by 2030 for many households (mainly due to increased costs for cooling). Housing with minimum insulation and no solar hot water units, which is designed without consideration of climatic factors, is leaving residents poorly placed to adapt to increasing costs of conventional energy. From the project’s research analysing transport systems in remote Australia, initial analysis found a large majority of the participants of the




Transport Futures survey expressed that fuel, registration and public transport costs were an ongoing barrier to mobility. A large number of households are in a situation of ‘transport stress’, with over 30% of household income spent on transport. There is a real need to address current transport shortages in order to improve the economic participation and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in very remote communities.

2.2.2 RESEARCH PROGRAM 2: ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

The research from this program is designed to create appropriate and successful models for micro and small to medium enterprises that are in remote locations and are inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. The program aims to facilitate long term sustainable growth leading to employment and to address barriers that impede this growth, including distance from markets, fragile or faulty supply chains and the inefficiencies arising from subsequent high production costs.

There are five projects in Research Program 2:

èè Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies

èè Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product

èè Aboriginal Cultural Enterprise

èè Plant Business

èè Precision Pastoral Management Tools

Program research highlights

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies project has completed the first comprehensive value chain analysis of the sector. Participants in the study included more than 170 art businesses, 82 out of 87 art centres, 4 of 5 peak bodies, all 8 government agencies involved in the sector, plus 900 art buyers at 3 national art fairs. Research has provided information and a greater understanding essential for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts sector in remote Australia, fulfilling its potential to provide ongoing social, cultural and economic benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

This project has addressed five major industry challenges:

. value chain complexity and changing market conditions

. industry issues such as provenance, quality and supply

. governance and regulation



. artistic production in remote Australia

. business sustainability for art enterprises.

This project particularly demonstrates the CRC’s approach to working with researchers and students from industry and embedding them in the research to get fit‑for‑purpose results that can be disseminated through a range of media (e.g. newsletters, conference presentations, fact sheets, online atlases, seminars and research theses).

Demand for the findings from this research is such that the leader of the project has been invited to present results at numerous participant and stakeholder meetings and events during the year.

Research in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product project this year has focused on assessing the value‑creation processes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote tourism enterprises to increase the resilience and profitability of enterprises in the sector. The purpose of the CRC‑REP tourism project is to develop research outputs that build the strategic capacity of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people involved in tourism. Consultation with stakeholders raised many tourism issues that helped us develop project themes, including understanding remote area tourists, generating knowledge allowing operators to learn from each other, formulating new insights into remote tourism systems and innovative models for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism enterprises.

Our work also includes projects carried out by postgraduate students who are hosted at CRC‑REP partners Southern Cross University, the University of South Australia and Flinders University. Project outputs include new business models, market insights, training materials, new tourism opportunities and knowledge resources. Insights will emerge from working with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism enterprises to generate knowledge that may also assist Government and funding agencies to provide a better operating environment for the sector.

The Aboriginal Cultural Enterprise project continued on ground mapping, with both helicopter‑borne and land‑based expeditions undertaken in Spinifex country, in the eastern part of southern WA. Over the life of the project, more than 60 expeditions to remote sites of significance have been undertaken with Aboriginal Elders. Information about more than 650 sites has been gathered, including about 180 previously lost sites that have been located and documented. The database will be used by Aboriginal Elders, Rangers and internal staff.

In the Plant Business project, bush tomato (Solanum centrale) research moved into field trial stage, with over 1000 plants now in the ground at the Arid Zone Research Institute in Alice Springs where they grew well in the first



spring/summer, and many plants fruited well. Significant and quite noticeable genetic variations are clearly apparent, which bodes well for identifying superior varieties of Solanum centrale. Some laboratory work continues, but most of the results are now in hand, and the researchers at SCU are preparing research papers for publication.

The PhD student project (at UNE), now titled ‘Strategies to support the interests of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the commercialisation of bush foods’ is progressing well, with four publications drafted and currently under peer review. This student participated in the Indigenous Studies Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy, at Columbia University, New York in May–June. Assoc. Prof. Slade Lee, the Plant Business project leader, organised the Plant Business project’s Advisory Group meeting to occur in conjunction with the Australian Native Foods Industry Limited (ANFIL) Annual General Meeting in November 2014. Slade was nominated onto the Research Committee of ANFIL to further strengthen CRC‑REP links with this organisation and with the bush foods industry generally. In the Precision Pastoral Management Tools project, the year has seen a consolidation of the on‑ground research on five working cattle stations. In addition to data collection and field work, the team has made improvements to the Precision Pastoral Management System (PPMS) and has continued stakeholder engagement with scientists, land managers and beef producers. Due to the current stage and commercial nature of the project, publications were kept to a minimum, although verbal presentations were made to several field days and the Rangelands Society Conference. 2.2.3 RESEARCH PROGRAM 3: INVESTING IN PEOPLE

This program is about improving pathways for remote Australians from education and training to employment and the associated enterprise development. There are three research projects in this program:

èè Interplay between Health, Wellbeing, Education and Employment

èè Pathways to Employment

èè Remote Education Systems.

Research program highlights

The Interplay Between Health, Wellbeing, Education and Employment project continues to gather momentum, with the finalisation of the Interplay Wellbeing Framework at both the individual and community levels and completion of the survey design with input from more than 20 Aboriginal Community Researchers. Associated road testing, selection of the final survey



sites and collection from the first‑wave data from four communities were also completed. The project is building an evidence base to provide policymakers and business with an objective measure of the complex interrelationships, or ‘interplay’, between health, wellbeing, education and employment and the important role of culture, empowerment and community. Strategies have been undertaken to build a community development model strongly grounded in scientific thinking and to develop objective measures to represent community values. The key research questions in the project include:

èè What are the relationships between health and wellbeing outcomes and education and employment for individuals and communities living in remote Australia?

èè How effective are targeted interventions in this field?

èè How can policy and practice be better informed by this knowledge to maximise desired health and wellbeing outcomes?

A widespread community and stakeholder consultation was undertaken with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from remote areas to represent their values and priorities in the establishment of the Interplay Wellbeing Framework. This involved 5 community visits, 20 workshops and meetings, 11 semi‑structured interviews and the employment of 21 Aboriginal Community Researchers. The first wave of data collection was completed in 2014–15, with the second wave scheduled for 2015–16. Video is being used to further communicate the aims of the project to a range of stakeholders and community members.

The Pathways to Employment project predominantly looks at the opportunities for Aboriginal people living in remote Australia in their late schooling and early working careers, understanding that the choices that remote dwelling young people make in relation to education do not necessarily follow the patterns of non‑remote young people.

The project is working across several sites, including Doomadgee, Katherine, Alice Springs, APY Lands, Yulara, Tennant Creek and Darwin. The case studies are focused on various learning pathways and their relationship to livelihood aspirations/outcomes for Aboriginal people residing in remote Australia. The four case studies that were undertaken in 2014–15 were:

èè Microenterprise Pathways and Enterprise Learning Projects

èè Anangu Pathways (APY Trade Training Centre and Ayers Rock Resort)



èè Learning for Employment Pathways within a correctional centre (NT Department of Correction Services)

èè Wrap Around Services – a study on behalf of the NT Government.

A major stakeholder and partner workshop was held over two days in October, where the project leader explained the findings from the current Pathways case studies and participants attending from all around Australia gave advice regarding research needs for the remaining period of the project.

The Remote Education Systems (RES) project aims to find out how remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can get the best benefit from the teaching and learning happening in and out of schools. It is doing this by engaging with members of communities, schools, government agencies and other end users who want to find ways of improving outcomes for students in remote Australia. To date the project has engaged directly with more than 1000 remote education stakeholders across the country.

Additionally, the RES project team has developed a Red Dirt Curriculum national workshop series based on best practices in remote education and ongoing feedback from remote education practitioners and policy developers. The ideas and findings from the project are now being actively promulgated through the CRC’s stakeholder and partner agencies as well as through a national stakeholder lecture series.

RES project PhD researcher Sam Osborne received the award for the most outstanding contribution to Aboriginal education in the NT in late 2014. Assoc. Prof. John Guenther, RES Project Leader, led the development and publication of a Special Issue of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues focusing on the ‘Red Dirt’ theme as it applies more broadly across the CRC‑REP research. Also in RES, a new project began that investigates the effectiveness of boarding schools as an option for remote communities. The project is investigating how many remote students go to boarding school, what happens to them after they leave and whether they ultimately return to their communities.



2.3 Education and trainingIn 2014–15, the CRC‑REP had 21 students: 14 PhD, 2 Masters (two of whom withdrew during the year), 1 Honours, 2 VET and 0 Vacation students. All students are integrated into one of the main research projects, under the supervision of a Principal Research Leader, and are included in all professional development and research activities. They are supervised by 28 university and 9 non‑university staff. At least one of each student’s supervisors is from an end‑user stakeholder group, increasing SME, community and policymaker engagement in our research projects.

Communication with our students is strong, with monthly teleconference meetings organised by the Education Coordinator, plus regular meetings with student supervisory panels. Students also participate in our monthly project briefing teleconferences. The General Managers of Research meet annually with each student’s university supervisor(s).

A student forum was held in September, at which students presented on their current research and findings and participated in several professional development sessions over three days.

The table at Appendix 3 provides a list of the PhD students, with their research organisations, commencement and expected completion dates, thesis titles, and the CRC‑REP Program they belong to.



2.4 SME engagementAll of the CRC‑REP’s projects engage extensively with partners, end users and other stakeholders through regular workshops, forums and symposia. SMEs are more numerous per capita in remote Australia than in non‑remote areas and are therefore a key end‑user and stakeholder group for CRC‑REP, particularly for Program 2: Enterprise Development. The project Output to Usage to Impact Plans have Knowledge for SMEs as a specific output category.

For the CRC‑REP, SME engagement occurs continually with project consultations and research activities and is a distinctive strength of the organisation. Regular project updates are sent to hundreds of end users, and the monthly Ninti One newsletter, which includes CRC‑REP updates and stories, is received by 3800 people. In terms of face‑to‑face interactions, SMEs actively participate in project workshops and other consultations, as well as being represented on project advisory groups. As many remote SMEs do not have the time or funds to travel and attend workshops, we travel to their region and work directly with them on research or disseminating findings. Where peak bodies exist, we attend their regular meetings as another way to engage with groups of SMEs.

This year CRC‑REP collaborated with 36 domestic SMEs in research, while many others participated in stakeholder events coordinated by the CRC‑REP, of which there were 80, with 2476 people attending.

Two examples of SME engagement in research and outreach are:

èè The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product project brought together 19 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism operators from WA, Qld, the NT and SA to build expertise in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of enterprise clustering. The workshop established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander principles of enterprise clustering and increased peer‑to‑peer understanding of practical issues for small/medium Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote tourism enterprises. In response to SME requests to make findings accessible, videos of workshop conversations were made and have been posted on the CRC‑REP YouTube channel.

èè Four remote Aboriginal art centres are participating in an energy use study to help them reduce electricity costs for their businesses. After the study they will receive personalised advice on how to reduce electricity consumption, plus they will get to keep the monitoring equipment. During the equipment installation, some dangerous electrical issues were identified and rectified by our researchers and contractors. This type of informal support for collaborating SMEs builds trust and fulfils researchers’ obligations of reciprocity by paying SMEs back for their in‑kind contributions.



2.5 Commercialisation and utilisationThe Board is determined to ensure that the valuable research, development and education coordination role that the CRC‑REP has begun to play for economic development in remote Australia shall continue beyond its seven‑year funding cycle. The CRC‑REP strives to create and capture as much value from its activities as possible, with processes and protocols in place to maximise this capital, underpinned by its Output to Usage to Impact Framework.

The Output to Usage to Impact Framework sets out the approach to achieving the creation, identification and extraction of value for the participants, stakeholders and possible third‑party users of the outcomes of CRC‑REP research in order to achieve the maximum national benefits from their investment. This framework enables management and project participants to ensure that the research outputs of the CRC‑REP are used for improving the economic participation and livelihoods of people in remote Australia in a transparent, strategic and sustainable fashion.

Communication Plans have been developed for all projects. These use a similar stakeholder hierarchy as per the individual project Output to Usage to Impact plans. Due to the public‑good nature of much of CRC‑REPs research, most outputs are published immediately upon development, in various formats and media, designed to suit the various types of stakeholder and client groups. This will maximise the utilisation of CRC‑REP outputs by stakeholders and end‑users.

No projects are yet at commercialisation stage, but intellectual property is being identified and managed (see section 2.6 below). CRC impacts, on average, are commonly realised in the order of 9‑10 years after the commencement of the project.

Ninti One has a process for monitoring the utilisation and commercial‑isation of its products through to the stage of quantifying impact which will, overtime, quantify the overall CRC‑REP impact.



2.6 Intellectual property managementThe merged Ninti One Intellectual Property, Ethics, Research Quality and Innovation Committee (IPERQIC) of the Board oversees intellectual property (IP) management processes.

Protectable IP is recorded annually for each project via the online project tracking system (Ninti Management System). This IP is classified into ‘commercialisable services’ and ‘commercialisable products’.

As most of the CRC‑REP’s research has been designed to be ‘public good’, most knowledge and other outputs will be freely available to end users and other stakeholders via strategies outlined in each project’s Communications Plan. Two projects, Precision Pastoral Management Tools and Plant Business, however, have clearly identified commercialisable products as project outputs, and appropriate strategies are being used to manage their IP as it is developed. In addition, one PhD student is conducting IP management research and may produce new and improved strategies for protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander IP.

If there is commercialisable IP identified in a project, then a business case is developed that identifies ownership, conflicts of interest, the needs of those involved in development and the potential value. The proposal is presented to the Board through the IPERQIC. The Board then considers in full the IP and risk management issues, as well as the strategic direction, before commercialisation is begun.

Project IP generated by the CRC‑REP is owned and utilised in accordance with the IP Trust Deeds. In many cases, the CRC‑REP’s project participants are potential end users of research outputs; contract agreements may grant these participants rights of use to those outputs through a licence to use.

Ninti One’s Protocol for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge and Intellectual Property states that benefit sharing with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, based on their knowledge contribution to projects that have the potential to yield revenue streams, is negotiated on a project‑by‑project basis. The Board ensures that no commercialisation takes place until Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities who have rights and interests in such material have had the opportunity to decide whether to provide consent to any proposed commercialisation.



2.7 CommunicationsThe Communications team manages the production of the published research outputs, our online presence, CRC‑REP’s mainstream and social media campaigns, communications training, the ‘whole of CRC’ indicia and CRC engagement activities. These activities are guided by project communications and engagement plans that have been developed for each of the 11 major research projects. Each communications plan includes internal and external communication strategies and activities.

In response to the recommendations from the Performance Review, these plans were reviewed to include a stronger emphasis on ‘from impact to policy’ to increase the uptake and influence of research outputs to targeted policy audiences.

2.7.1 ExTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS

This year a total of 146 publications were produced and published. Of these, 40 were formally peer‑reviewed: 4 book chapters, 30 journal publications and 6 conference proceedings. The other 106 end‑user publications included policy briefings, research reports, handbooks, big‑books, research summaries, working papers, submissions, media releases, films, project updates and presentations. These publications types have been designed specifically for the CRC‑REP to reach targeted audiences and specific project end users.

Our website metrics improved on last year, with the CRC‑REP website receiving 35,763 visits and a return visitor rate of 24.5%. This is on top of the 83,381 visits to the Ninti One site, the management company of the CRC‑REP.

All our newsletters, publications and items of latest news are posted on multiple social media platforms, all accessible from our website homepage. Our social media presence increased this year, both in activity and level of engagement. Our Facebook page had over 1000 ‘likes’ and our Facebook ‘impressions’, that is, the number of times content associated with our page is displayed, was 197,386. Our Twitter account has 428 ‘followers’ and our YouTube channel received 41,217 views. Our SlideShare account has 84 presentations loaded, with the most popular being Red Dirt thinking about Remote Education Systems, which received 1292 views.

Media campaigns conducted during the year were successful in generating coverage across press, radio, social media and television. Specific campaigns were:

èè Research leader finalist in Women in Industry Award – July 2014



èè Guiding remote Australia’s knowledge enterprise into a new era – September 2014

èè Remote tourism partners add value to Australia – September 2014

èè Plight of remote Australians is a global shame – November 2014

èè Climate change: What is happening with weather in central Australia? – December 2014

èè We need to understand remote communities better – March 2015

èè Aboriginal art prospects brightening – March 2015

èè On the Move: A key to success in remote Australia – June 2015

èè UNE and CRC‑REP Media Release: Mining town survival guide – cheap housing and tourism.

The launch of the research findings from the Art Economies project in March provides a good example of how we align the promotion of the project outputs with stakeholder engagement so as to achieve greater uptake and influence with a specific audience. The event was timed to coincide with the annual Desart Conference in Alice Springs. Invited guests included arts workers and policy representatives from national and state‑based organisations.

A series of public events titled ‘Remote Wisdom’ took place during November in Brisbane, Darwin and Alice Springs. Researchers from across the CRC presented their research in the context of its relevance to policy development for remote Australia. The Brisbane event included an extended conversation between ABC’s Kerry O’Brien and our Ninti One Chair, Dr Tom Calma AO, in collaboration with the national EIDOS Congress. This was filmed and edited and shared with a public audience.

2.7.2 INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS

Stakeholder engagement increased in 2014–15, with 2476 end users attending 80 events (see table at Appendix 4 for details).

Our newsletter, NintiNews, is distributed to our partners, researchers and end users. Ten editions of NintiNews were produced and circulated to a subscriber base of over 3800 in 2014–15.

An internal newsletter, N1, is distributed monthly to all our staff, researchers and students.

Project Updates are also produced for a specific stakeholder email distribution list that has been created for each research project. This allows direct feedback to the already engaged audience, keeping them regularly updated with the outcomes of the project.


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2.7.3 REMOTE AUSTRALIA ONLINE (RAO)

This online resource centre is continuously added to and now holds over 3000 research publications that are searchable through a keyword search engine. Over 3000 people visited this resource in 2014–15. The RAO Atlases, which are an online mapping tool, convert Australian Bureau of Statistics census data into interactive maps displaying trends of all 194 Statistical Local Areas of remote and very remote Australia. In 2014–15, datasets from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies project was used to map ‘Artworks and Artists’ and ‘Art Financials’. Datasets from the Enduring Community Value from Mining project are currently being added to demonstrate remote and regional trends associated with major mining projects and towns.

www.nintione.com.au/resources/search


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3.1.1 BOARD

Through Ninti One, a not‑for‑profit limited company, the CRC‑REP has a reliable and highly effective governance structure with a proven track

record over 11 years. This includes managing its finances, research and collaboration activities, intellectual property, research impacts and end‑ user‑application.

The Transition Plan is updated annually, and this document guides activities both now and beyond the existing CRC. The final Transition Plan is due in June 2016. The Transition Plan specifies that the research activities of the CRC‑REP will continue beyond the current CRC period, through the instrument of Ninti One, an ongoing entity that will continue to conduct research and develop associated programs for the advancement of remote Australian communities.

The Board is chaired by Dr Tom Calma AO and includes members drawn from industry, academia, small business, finance, community organisations and government (see Table 1). The Board continued to operate in accordance with its charter, which includes an evaluation every two years.

Directors are appointed in accordance with the constitution for a seven‑year term. Where vacancies occur, they are filled in accordance with the constitution and in accordance with the skills matrix in the constitution.

The following changes to the Board membership in 2014–15 are detailed below:

èè September 2014, Ms Jan Ferguson stepped down from her position as Managing Director of Ninti One Ltd. In accordance with the Ninti One Constitution Section 44.4, the position of Board Director is for the period of his or her appointment as the Managing Director.

èè August 2014, Mr Rod Reeve was appointed as the new Managing Director of Ninti One. In accordance with the Ninti One Constitution Section 44.4, the Managing Director will be a Board Director for the period of his or her appointment as the Managing Director.

èè September 2014, Ms Tanya Hosch resigned from her position as Director.


In October 2014, a selection process began for a new Board Director. However, with the Government’s announcing its review of the CRC Programme, the Board decided to delay filling the Board vacancy.

Quarterly Board meetings were held in the Northern Flinders Ranges (Iga Warta), Adelaide, Canberra and Alice Springs. It is an important Board strategy that meetings, when possible, are held in different locations across Australia, with at least one per year being held in a remote location. This enables the Board to engage directly with partners and stakeholders in these regions, while upholding the CRC‑REP’s value of working on the ground in local communities to enable change.

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Table 1 – Full list of CRC-REP Board members and their key skills

Name and role Key skills (in brief) Independent/ organisation

Tom Calma

Chair

Governance, policy development, public administration, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and affairs, social justice, community development, health, education, training.

Independent.

Also National Coordinator, Tackling Indigenous Smoking.

Director, Ecosystems Investment Management Australia.

Glenise Coulthard

Director and Deputy Chair

Governance, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and affairs, health, tourism and economic development

Independent

Manager Aboriginal Health for the Port Augusta Hospital Cluster up to March 2014

Director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations

Director, Flinders Ranges National Park Co‑Management Board

Director, Australian Hearing Services Board

Sharon Bell

Director

Governance, policy development, academia, research and innovation, IP development and commercialisation, public administration

Independent

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Charles Darwin University

Board member Menzies School of Health Research

Board member Television Sydney (University of Western Sydney)

Jan Ferguson

Managing Director until Sep 2014

Governance, public administration, policy development, business development, community development, research management and innovation

Organisation

Managing Director of Ninti One Limited


Name and role Key skills (in brief) Independent/ organisation

Tanya Hosch

Director until Sep 2014

Governance, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and affairs, social development, youth and leadership, research, education and training, women’s issues and health,

Independent

Joint Campaign Director, RECOGNISE

Director, Centre for Social Innovation

Director, National Board of the Australian Red Cross

Director, Indigenous Governance Institute

Board member, Bangarra Dance Theatre

Independent Chair, PricewaterhouseCoopers Indigenous Consulting

Alison Page

Director

Governance, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and affairs, the arts, built environment and media

Independent

Director, Indigenous Land Corporation

Chair, National Centre for Indigenous Excellence

Rod Reeve

Managing Director from Aug 2014

Governance, public administration, policy development, business development, community development, research management and innovation

Organisation

Managing Director of Ninti One Limited

Director, Martindale Holdings Pty Ltd

David Ritchie

Director

Governance, leadership systems, housing and infrastructure and economic development in remote communities, land rights and native title, environment protection and natural resource management

IndependentBoard Member, Northern Territory Land Corporation

Tony Tate

Director

Governance, public administration, research, education and training, meteorology, oceanography, finance

IndependentChair, Curtin Water Quality Research CentreChair, Fuels and Energy Technology InstituteChair, Centre of Excellence for Science, Science and HealthMember WA Fisheries Research Advisory Board

Table 1 – Full list of CRC-REP Board members and their key skills (continued)

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Table 2 – Attendance at CRC-REP Board meetings

NAME 3 SEP 2014 IGA WARTA, SA

2-3 DEC 2014ADELAIDE

4 MAR 2015 CANBERRA

3 JUN 2015 ALICE SPRINGS

Tom Calma (Chair)

3 3 3 3

Rod Reeve 3 3 3 3

Glenise Coulthard 3 3 3 ApologyAlison Page 3 3 3 3

Tony Tate 3 3 3 3

David Ritchie 3 3 3 3

Sharon Bell 3 3 3 3

Tanya Hosch Apology Apology N/AJan Ferguson Last meeting N/A N/A N/A

SecretariatJane Cooper 3 3 3 ApologyFran Kilgariff 3 3 3 3

N/A


3.1.2 COMMITTEES

AUDIT AND RISK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (ARMC)

The ARMC considers any matter relating to the financial and legal affairs of the organisation, including overseeing the auditing of the accounts. Another important component of the committee’s responsibilities is to continually monitor the internal controls and risk management of the organisation, in consultation with the Board and the Executive team.

As the organisation continues to evolve, our risks need to be regularly reviewed – particularly in the context of our Transition Plan. It is important we consider risk holistically across the organisation, particularly how risks may combine to be of even more concern than when considered singularly. The plan has also been cross‑referenced to the Ninti One Strategic Objectives, which assists in ensuring the identified risks link directly with our whole‑of‑systems approach.

Table 3 – Attendance at Audit and Risk Management Committee meetings

NAME 14 AUG 2014 13 NOV 2014 12 FEB 2015 14 MAY 2015Tom Calma Apology 3 3 3

Rod Reeve 3 3 3 3

Tony Tate (Chair) 3 3 3 3

David Ritchie 3 3 3 3

Alison Page 3 Apology Apology ApologyJan Ferguson 3 N/A N/A N/A

SecretariatJane Cooper 3 3 3 ApologyFran Kilgariff 3 3 3 Apology

Apolline Kohen N/A N/A N/A 3 (Acting)

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & ETHICS, RESEARCH QUALITY AND INNOVATION COMMITTEE (IPERQIC)

The objectives of the IPERQIC ensure we operate responsibly and ethically.

The committee reviews all of the CRC‑REP’s research through its Research Quality Framework and the Output to Usage to Impact Framework. The frameworks establish the approach to achieving value for participants, stakeholders and third party users of the diverse research outcomes. Adopted across the CRC‑REP’s research programs, the frameworks enable the senior leadership and project participants to ensure that research outputs are used to improve the economic participation and livelihoods of people in remote Australia in a transparent, strategic and sustainable fashion.

Table 4 –Attendance at Intellectual Property and Ethics, Research Quality and Innovation Committee meetings

NAME 12 AUG 2014 11 NOV 2014 10 FEB 2015 12 MAY 2015Tom Calma 3 3 Apology ApologySharon Bell (Chair) 3 3 3 ApologyRod Reeve 3 3 3 3

Glenise Coulthard 3 Apology 3

Tony Tate 3 3 3 3

Alison Page Apology 3 3 Apology

Jan Ferguson 3 N/A N/A N/ATanya Hosch 3 N/A N/A N/A

SecretariatJane Cooper 3 3 3 ApologySteve Blake 3 3 3 ApologyKevin Williams 3 3 3 3

Apolline Kohen N/A N/A N/A 3 (Acting)

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3.1.3 KEY PERSONNEL

NAME ORGANISATION CRC POSITION/ROLE TIME (%) COMMITTED

Tom Calma CRC‑REP Chair

Independent of Research Participant

10

Rod Reeve CRC‑REP Managing Director


80 from August 2014

Jan Ferguson CRC‑REP Managing Director 80 until Sept 2014

Glenise Coulthard Deputy Chair

Board member


10

Alison Page Board member


10

Tony Tate Board member


10

David Ritchie Board member


10

Sharon Bell Charles Darwin University

Board member


10

Tanya Hosch Board member


10 until Sept 2014

Kevin Williams University of SA General Manager, Research Evaluation and Impact

100

Fran Kilgariff CRC‑REP General Manager, Operations 100Steve Blake Curtin University General Manager, Research Quality and

Innovation100

Table 5 – Key Personnel

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3.2 ParticipantsThe CRC‑REP has 59 participants, defined as:

èè Essential Participants – organisations that take part in work across the organisation and contribute both financially and in kind to planning and defining research and to other core activities of the CRC‑REP. There are 19 Essential Participants in the CRC‑REP. One Essential Participant, the Northern Territory Government, withdrew from the CRC in May 2014, effective from 21 November 2014

èè Other Participants – organisations that contribute to individual research projects within the CRC‑REP. These participants make a major contribution to the development of our research agenda, research process and anticipated outcomes. A new Other Participant was signed during the year: Northern Star Resources Ltd, based in Perth.

Our participants include Australian, state and territory governments, non‑government organisations, universities and other research providers, private businesses and companies from the mining, pastoralism and tourism sectors. Thirty per cent of the participants are from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities.

The full list of participants is as follows:

Table 6 – List of participants

Project participant Participant type

ABN or ACN Organisation type

Advanced Dynamics Other 45 109 726 623 Industry

Australian Bureau of Statistics Other 26 331 428 522 Government

Australian Council for Education Research Other 19 004 398 145 Education

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Other 62 020 533 641 Research

Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

Essential 32 039 179 166 Education

Centre for Appropriate Technology Essential 93 080 271 156 Industry and education

Centrefarm Other 32 101 614 760 Industry

Charles Darwin University Essential 54 093 513 649 University

Central Land Council Essential 71 979 619 393 Community, research

CleanGROW Other 95 207 414 629 Industry

Coles Other 45 004 189 708 Industry

Community Works Other 72 117 068 988 Industry

CSIRO Essential 41 687 119 230 Australian Government, research




Curtin University Essential 99 143 842 569 University

Department of Agriculture and Food (Western Australian Agriculture Authority)

Essential 86 611 226 341 Western Australian Government

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Other 24 830 236 406 Queensland Government

Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Essential 36 702 093 234 South Australian Government

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Essential 36 342 015 855 Australian Government

Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development

Essential 37 862 725 624 Australian Government

Department of Aboriginal Affairs Other 36 049 203 976 Western Australian Government

Attorney‑General’s Department Other 92 661 124 436 Australian Government

Desart Other 59 056 947 372 Industry

Desert Garden Produce Aboriginal Corporation Other 35 384 683 622 Industry

Desert Knowledge Australia Essential 20 758 725 597 Government

Education Transformation Other 45 141 252 173 Industry

Flinders University Essential 65 542 596 200 University

Graham (Polly) Farmer Foundation Other 26 062 909 402 Education, research

Griffith University Other 78 106 094 461 University

Iga Warta Other 13 230 408 903 Industry, community, development

Keringke Arts Other 17 407 028 573 Industry

Kimberley Land Council Other 96 724 252 047 Community, research

Kungka’s Can Cook Other 54 820 092 284 Industry

Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation Other 91 884 217 942 Community

Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Other International University

Minerals Council of Australia Other 21 191 309 229 Industry

Newmont Australia Ltd Essential 86 009 295 765 Industry

North Australian Pastoral Co. Other 35 009 591 511 Industry

Northern Star Resources Ltd (new) Other 43 106 610 833 Industry

Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association Other 87 055 308 786 Industry

Northern Territory Government (withdrew)

Essential 84 085 734 992 Northern Territory Government

Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Studies Other 69 330 643 210 Education, research

McPhee Andrewartha Other 98 007 929 786 Industry

Observant Pty Ltd Other 21 104 666 882 Industry

Outback Communities Authority Other 45 674 479 985 South Australian Government

Outback Spirit Other 44 788 417 794 Industry

Pila Nguru Aboriginal Corporation Other 86 789 767 972 Community/Industry

Table 6 – List of participants (continued)

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Precision Pastoral Pty Ltd Other 66 143 039 187 Industry

RemoteBiz™ Pty Ltd Essential 82 143 460 459 Industry

Rio Tinto Services Ltd Essential 62 004 219 738 Industry

Robins Foods Pty Ltd Other 56 100 195 300 Industry

Southern Cross University Essential 41 995 651 524 University

Tangentyere Council Other 81 688 672 692 Community Development

The Smith Family Other 28 000 030 179 Community Development

Titjikala Social Club Other 79 386 078 326 Community Development

University of British Columbia, Canada Other International University

University of the Free State, Karoo Development Foundation, South Africa

Other International University

University of New England Essential 75 702 454 315 University

University of South Australia Essential 37 191 313 308 University

Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi Other 82 572 914 004 Community Development

Table 7 – List of participants (continued)

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3.3 CollaborationOne of the strengths of the CRC‑REP is the breadth and diversity of our partnerships and resulting on‑ground collaborative activities. All major projects have more than one participant, and all have at least one‑end user participant collaborating in the research planning and implementation. This year we collaborated with 118 organisations, ranging from SMEs to peak bodies to governments. These organisations were involved in various aspects of research and extension, including participation in project advisory groups. Due to the large area of Australia that is classified as remote or very remote (85%), our research footprint is also large, covering NSW, Qld, NT, SA and WA, with 75% of activity conducted in the NT and WA.

One of the measures of CRC collaboration success is the degree of in‑kind work and resources contributed by our participants.

‘In‑kind’ is defined as any activity that an organisation contributes to the CRC‑REP and which is directly supporting the CRC’s research programs. In‑kind is a formal contracted amount of resources which is monitored across all the CRC‑REP partners by the Australian Government for compliance. In‑kind support can also comprise financial support provided towards CRC activities by organisations.

For this financial year, the CRC‑REP achieved a total in‑kind of 45.65, which is 58.48% more than the agreement figure of 26.7. The extra outputs (beyond those contracted) from this greater in‑kind include a greater depth of scope and analysis for some projects, plus the generation of new CRC‑wide outputs such as the Remote Australia Online resource database (with 3000 validated entries) and the companion interactive atlas (with 135,000 data elements).

For non‑staff in‑kind, the target was $3,344,000; however, we achieved a figure of $4,497,076.


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3.4 Financial managementThe CRC‑REP benefits from the operational administrative and organisational infrastructure, employees, systems and knowledge of Ninti One. The 2014–15 financial year was characterised as one of stability, with project spending on budget. Perks Accountants and Auditors, the organisation’s independent auditors, prepared the financial statements for the year. Financial reports (and advice) were prepared with assistance from Deloitte, Alice Springs.

All participant contributions were on track, aligned with delivery milestones and received in full in 2014–15, ensuring financially stability for the organisation.

The financial reports for 2014–15 have been lodged with the Australian Government Department of Industry.


4 Other activities4.1 International collaborationAmong the international collaborative activities, the highlights include:

èè Joint academic work on the links between cultural identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and Māori people and socio‑economic outcomes, with the aim of submitting a competitive grant application, was undertaken with Carla Houkamau (University of Auckland) and Maree Roche (Waikato Institute of Technology) as part of the Mobility project.

èè Plant Business and University of New England PhD student, Kylie Lingard, presented “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples interests in the commercial development of Australian native plants” to the Indigenous Studies Summer Program on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Policy, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, New York, 4th June, 2014. Collaboration involved UNE and Columbia University which hosted the gathering as a means to mutually inform specialists in the area of what is going on in various jurisdictions.

èè As part of the Plant Business research project and the UNE Colloquium on Seed Banks and Cultural Interests in Seeds, a CRC‑REP sponsored workshop was held in conjunction with the Environmental Humanities Conference ‘Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions’; Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. Participants from all over Australia, New Zealand, UK and India attended. This activity conducted by UNE is a formal sub‑project of Plant Business and is still active with a Second Seeds Colloquium to occur at the end of September 2015.

èè CRC‑REP was invited to present at the Indigenous Research Network Roundtable as part of the World Universities Network on 2‑3 February 2015. This has led to on‑going collaboration.


5 Glossary of termsLIST OF SHORTENED FORMS

ANFIL Australian Native Foods Industry Limited

ARMC Audit and Risk Management Committee

AVETRA Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association

CRC-REP Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation

CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

ECVM Enduring Community Value from Mining

ERA Excellence in Research for Australia

FIFO Fly in/fly out

HERDC Higher Education Research Data Collection

IP Intellectual property

IPERQIC Intellectual Property, Ethics, Research Quality and Innovation Committee

LDC Long‑distance commuting

MSME Micro, small to medium‑sized enterprise

NAPLAN National assessment program – literacy and numeracy

NMS Ninti Management System

PPMS Precision Pastoral Management System

RAO Remote Australia Online

RAOA Remote Australia Online Atlases

RES Remote Education Systems

RLMS Remote Livestock Management System

UNE University of New England


6 Contact detailsManaging Director

Mr Rod Reeve

[email protected]

Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation

Business & Innovation Centre

Desert Knowledge Precinct

South Stuart Highway

Alice Springs

Northern Territory 0871

PO Box 3971

Alice Springs

Northern Territory 0871

Phone: +61 8 8959 6000

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.crc‑rep.com.au


Appendix 1: Performance Review

Appendices

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1 The CRC engage an external person to independently review the Board’s performance at least every couple of years, specifically focussing on engagement with groups able to add to the work and performance of the CRC and on the Board’s development of strategy and overall leadership.

• The Board has undertaken two independent external reviews of its performance since establishment of CRC‑REP.

• The Board is set to undertake an independent external review before the end of the current CRC‑REP funding agreement (December 2015).

• CRC‑REP will continue the annual internal Board reviews.

The Department is satisfied with the CRC’s response.

CRC‑REP to organise an external review of Board’s performance by end of 2015.

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2 The CRC, for the remainder of its term, needs to review the skill‑set and composition of the Board, noting the skills identified in other parts of the report that will underpin aspects in the transition plan (i.e. international linkages, marketing and commercialisation, development economics, remote technology solutions).

• Skill sets determined by our constitution.

• Board Directors appointed by Electoral Colleges.

• New Managing Director bringing additional experience in the areas of international linkages, community development and commercialisation.

• Board has skills and experience required to effectively set directions and drive our transition strategies.

• CRC‑REP will make the selection committee aware of this recommendation when considering the next vacancy.

The Department is satisfied with the CRC’s response. No further action is required.

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3 The CRC focus on its research benchmarking activities, in particular providing greater attention to established national and international indicators of research quality.

• CRC‑REP already does research benchmarking.

• The introduction of a new ERA category in 2015 will benefit university CRC partners by having stakeholder publications counted as part of the ERA.

• Implement set of strategies to increase academic publications, such as mentoring of junior researchers; publish special issues or books where lack of quality journals is limiting publication.

• CRC‑REP will use recognised quality measures, including new ERA category for benchmarking.

• CRC‑REP will continue implementing the following strategies to increase academic publications from projects: mentoring of junior researchers and publishing special issues or books.


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4 The CRC embark on strategies that enact a stronger commitment to professional development, benchmarked to national best practice, for those researchers who are interested in pursuing a university research career.

• CRC‑REP noted that Ninti One has good track record of student completion rates with PhD completion rate at 86%; 36% of CRC‑REP’s former PhD students are employed in academic or research positions.

• CRC‑REP intends to continue to support the professional development of students and research staff by organising regular training workshops, offering opportunities to attend conferences and organising an annual student forum to encourage the students to consider an academic career.


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5 The CRC to identify and support clear career development pathways for its research workforce, in particular its Aboriginal Community Researchers.

• CRC‑REP recognised that supporting career development pathways for Aboriginal Community Researchers is already happening but needs a dedicated strategy.

• Overall Aboriginal Community Researcher strategy, which will include strategies to support career development of Aboriginal Community Researchers, to be completed by June 2015.

• Implementation will begin once strategy is approved by the Board. Implementation timeframe will be determined once full strategy has been developed.


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6 The CRC to ensure appropriate commercialisation up skilling is an integral part of the Professional Development programs for professional staff.

• Recognition of the need to have commercialisation and IP management up skilling as part of Professional Development programs.

• Training delivered by an external commercialisation expert, on IP management and Commercialisation at the next researcher and student professional development workshop, scheduled for 22–24 September 2014.

• Commercialisation and IP management training to be delivered to professional staff and students on an annual basis starting September 2014.

• Researchers and students took part in IP management and commercialisation training.

The Department is satisfied with the CRC’s response.

Commercial‑ isation and IP management training delivered on 22–24 September 2014.

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7 The CRC determine the commercial viability of developing its participatory research action methodologies (Aboriginal Community Researcher knowledge), through a services model, in its future business activities.

• Ninti One has already identified the commercial viability of its Aboriginal Community Researcher Program and is offering a range of consultancy services through its spin‑off company RemoteBiz.

• CRC‑REP recognised the need to refine their offerings and business model, and this will be part of the Aboriginal Community Researcher program strategy to be completed by June 2015 (see Recommendation 5).

• Overall Aboriginal Community Researcher strategy to be completed by June 2015 and will include section on business model and commercial activities.

• Implementation will start once strategy is approved by the Board and an implementation timeframe will be determined once the strategy has been developed.


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8 The CRC consider its diffusion strategies which could include:a. Ensuring the

dissemination of its research output beyond essential participants and the broader community; and

b. Developing a business training guide/program on how to build an MSME/SME in remote Australia (i.e. how you build a business, how you find your client, how to create sustainable business models, how to leverage into distribution channels, and building export markets).

• CRC‑REP to continue to ensure that we disseminate our research outputs to audiences beyond our participants by reviewing and updating the communication plan.

• CRC‑REP to ensure that CRC projects in Program 2 (Enterprise Development) continue to identify opportunities to develop training packages for MSME / SMEs, which would be commercialisable through Ninti One and RemoteBiz’.

• CRC‑REP to organise workshops between CRC‑REP, Ninti One and RemoteBiz to identify potential commercialisable services and products by end of June 2015.


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9 The CRC to provide regular structured forums between participant and end user groups for them to meet and learn from each other that can encourage the kind of knowledge transfer that the CRC is uniquely placed to achieve.

• CRC‑REP already organises regular events, which provide opportunities for participants and end‑user groups to meet, share knowledge and learn from each other.

• CRC‑REP organised 75 events in the 2013‑14 financial year which provided opportunities for participants and end‑users to meet and learn from each other.

• CRC‑REP to continue organising regular events that provide opportunities for participants and end‑user to meet and enable knowledge transfer.

• CRC‑REP to ensure that planning for events involving participants and end‑users is included in all Principal Research Leaders’ Communications Plans by end of 2014.


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10 In recognition of the CRCs commitment to benefit sharing and in light of its transition plan the CRC would benefit from better articulating its value propositions in all the different points in the value chain and where the value is created and transfer happens. The rationale for doing this is to allow the organisation to select the best possible collaboration/ commercialisation partners.

• The CRC‑REP noted that their value proposition was clearly articulated in the 2012–13 business case.

• The CRC‑REP will review and update their business and operational plans annually.


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11 The CRC ensure that the transition scenarios discussed at the review are included in all future transition plans.

• The transition scenarios discussed at the review have all been included in the June 2014 Transition Plan.

• The CRC‑REP will annually review and update its Transition Plan and continue to ensure that all transition scenarios are considered in future Transition Plans.


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12 The CRC, in the light of the transition plan regarding philanthropy and government funding, consider incorporating specific ‘impact into policy’ and evidence based metrics in the communications program (e.g. meetings with decision makers, number of government policy documents produced and uptake of recommendations in them, recommendations actually implemented, etc).

• The CRC‑REP is currently undertaking an impact analysis of their work across CRC‑REP and Ninti One, noting that ‘Impact into policy’ is a component of the impact analysis.

• Ninti Management System (NMS) now captures all the data accurately, which enables the CRC‑REP to track their impact into policy.

• CRC‑REP noted that their next step is to ensure integration of the impact analysis in the overall Ninti One Communications Plan.


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13 The CRC may wish to consider future contract variations which would enable it to maximise flexibility in responding to new research opportunities, as well as meet outcomes required under a changed Government landscape.

• The CRC‑REP will monitor any change in government policies or programs that may have an impact on CRC‑REP projects.

• The CRC‑REP will consider potential contract variations as research projects progress and new research opportunities arise.


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Appendix 2: PublicationsFormal publications – (books, authorised research book chapters, articles in scholarly refereed journals, full written conference paper referred proceedings)

Journal articles

Abbott T and Cairney S. 2014. Collaboration and capacity development through the employment of Aboriginal community‑based researchers [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 164‑67.

Acker T, Jones T and Henham F. 2014. Fair exchange: the rise of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art fairs. Artlink. 34, 2. pp. 80‑83.

Acker T and Sullivan G. 2014. More than a place to paint: the complicated business of Art Centres [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 168‑72.

Ashwell J. 2015. Going bush? Factors which influence international tourists’ decisions to travel to remote Australian destinations. Tourism Management. 46, pp. 80‑83.

Blackwell B, Dollery B and Grant B. 2015. Institutional vehicles for place‑shaping in remote Australia. Space and Polity. 19, 2. pp. 150‑69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2015.1014227.

Blackwell B, Fischer A, McFarlane J and Dollery B. 2015. Employment leakage by Local Government Area in the Northern Territory, Australia: the roles of industries, including mining. Journal of Developing Areas. pp. 263–278

Blackwell B, McFarlane J and Blake S. 2014. Local employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by local government areas in the Northern Territory [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 72‑90.

Cairney S and Abbott T. 2014. Aboriginal wellbeing in a ‘Red Dirt Economy’ [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 5‑22.

Cairney S and Race D. 2014. Speaking in two worlds: an integrated conceptual framework to enhance understanding across cultures [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 152‑57.

Disbray S. 2015. Indigenous Languages in Education – Policy and Practice in Australia. UNESCO Observatory Multi‑Disciplinary Journal in the Arts. 4, 1. pp. 31.

Dockery AM. 2014. A wellbeing approach to mobility and its application to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Social Indicators Research. Online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205‑014‑0839‑8.

Ferguson J and Kohen A. 2014. Remote knowledge for a better future: the CRC‑REP work [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 173‑75.

Guenther J. 2014. Editorial: Red Dirt Research in Remote Australia [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 3‑4.

Guenther J. 2014. Measuring the unmeasured in educational programs: filling in the blanks through evaluation Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts. 14, Special issue: Evaluation. pp. 204‑22.

Guenther J, Disbray S and Osborne S. 2014. Digging up the (red) dirt on education: one shovel at a time [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 40‑56.

Haslam McKenzie F. 2014. Are there enduring community values from mining for Aboriginal people in the Pilbara? [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 91‑107.

Haslam McKenzie F and Hoath A. 2014. Fly‑In/Fly‑Out, Flexibility and the Future: Does Becoming a Regional FIFO Source Community Present Opportunity or Burden? Geographical Research. 52, 4. pp. 430‑41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745‑5871.12080.


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Haslam McKenzie F and Hoath A. 2014. The socio‑economic impact of mine industry commuting labour force on source communities. Resources Policy. 42, pp. 45‑52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2014.09.002.

Havas L, Ballweg J, Penna C and Race D. 2015. Energising households: a financial analysis of incentivised energy efficiency measures in remote Australia. Energy Efficiency. pp. http://doi.dx.org/10.1007/s12053‑015‑9326‑6.

Lovell J, Blake S, Alice T and Wallace K. 2014. Red dirt service economies: a picture of trade‑offs and choices [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 131‑51.

McRae‑Williams E. 2014. Aspirations for meaningful livelihoods: challenges of pathway navigation [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 57‑71.

Minutjukur M, Patterson V, Anderson S, Gibson F, Kitson M, Martin B, Martin V, Morrison H, Oldfield N, Shannon S, Randall D, Namatjira M and Larry R. 2014. Voices from the ‘Red Dirt’ on education [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 158‑63.

Osborne S. 2015. Families as foundation: Anangu perspectives on what else matters in remote education. UNESCO Observatory Multi-Disciplinary Journal in the Arts. 4, 2. pp. 25.

Parkes A, McRae‑Williams E and Tedmanson D. 2014. Dreams and aspirations of mobile young Aboriginal Australian people. Journal of Youth Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2014.992314.

Race D, Campbell M, Hampton K, Foster D, Fejo C and Robertson D. 2014. Observations of climate change by remote communities: lessons from the bush in central Australia [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 23‑39.

Robertson S and Blackwell B. 2014. Mine lifecycle planning and enduring value for remote communities. International Journal of Rural Law and Policy. Special edition 1, pp. 11.

Seet P‑S, Jones J, Acker T and Whittle M. 2015. Shocks among managers of indigenous art centres in remote Australia. Management Decision. 53, 4. pp. 763‑85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MD‑06‑2014‑0386.

Townsend P. 2014. Mobile learning engagement is location neutral. Transactions on Mobile Learning. 3, pp. 5‑9.

Townsend P. 2015. Mob learning – digital communities for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tertiary students. Journal of Economic and Social Policy. 17, 2. pp. Art. 2.

Woodhead A and Acker T. 2014. Sideways story: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community art production and markets [Special issue: Red dirt research in remote Australia]. Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 17, 4. pp. 108‑30.

Conference papers and proceedings

Acker T, Bendor I and Von Der Heidt T. 2014. How do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art organisations use technological networks in their business? Agents of Change ANZMAC 2014. 1‑3 December. Griffith University, Brisbane.

Benveniste T, Guenther J, Dawson D and Rainbird S. 2014. Out of sight, out of mind? Bringing indigenous parent – boarding school communication to light. AARE-NZARE 2014 - Speaking back through research. 30 November – 4 December. Brisbane.

Blackwell B, Fischer A and McFarlane J. 2015. Employment leakage by Local Government Area in the Northern Territory, Australia: the roles of industries, including mining. In Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Business and Social Sciences. University of Central Queensland, Sydney. 13−14 April. Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences. pp. 99‑116.


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Buitrago I and Robertson S. 2014. Mine life cycle planning – creating lasting value for communities. In Proceedings of Life-of-mine 2014: Delivering sustainable legacies through integrated Life-of-Mine planning. Pullman Brisbane King George Square, Brisbane. 16–18 July. AusIMM. pp. 301‑12.

Guenther J, Osborne S, Milgate G and O’Beirne P. 2014. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aspirations and expectations of schooling in very remote Australian schools. AARE-NZARE 2014 – Speaking back through research. 30 November – 4 December. Brisbane.http://www.aare.edu.au/data/2014_Conference/Full_papers/GUENTHER_14.pdf.

Guenther J and McRae‑Williams E. 2015. The training and employment challenge of remote communities: Is collaboration the solution? AVETRA 18th Annual Conference: Walking the Tightrope: the Implications of Markets for VET Research, Policy and Practice. 8–10 April. Melbourne.

Book sections

Acker T. 2015. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in its place in the global art market. In Australian Indigenous Employability, Education and Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Issues in a Compendium of Case Studies. Ed. Pearson C, Burgess J and Dayaram K. pp. 87‑101. Curtin University. Perth.

Lee LS. 2014. Introduction: Dealing with Traditional Knowledge in Bushfood Commercialisation. In The Outback Chef. Ed. Mayall J. pp. New Holland Publishers. Chatswood.

Lee LS. in press. Cultivation of Bush Tomato (Solanum centrale). In Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in Alternative Medicine and the Food Industry. Ed. Sultanbawa Y and Sultanbawa F. pp. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.

Petersen K and Congreve S. 2015. Background to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and the art industry. In Australian Indigenous Employability, Education and Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Issues in a Compendium of Case Studies. Ed. Pearson C, Burgess J and Dayaram K. pp. 87‑101. Curtin University. Perth.

Publications and reports for end-users

Big books and handbooks

Ninti One Limited. 2015. Conversations, cups of tea, heat and dirt – A report on the Community Engagement and Plant Specimen Collection activities for the CRC-REP Plant Business Project. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CommunityEngagementPlantSpecimenCollectionCRC‑REPPlantBusiness.pdf.

Corporate materials

Acker T and Woodhead A. 2015. Snapshot of the Art Economy in Remote Australia and Art Centres and Funding in Remote Australia - Infographic. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/SnapshotArtEconomyRemoteAustraliaInfographic.pdf.

Acker T and Woodhead A. 2015. The Economy of Place − A Place in the Economy: A value chain study of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art sector - Summary report. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/EconomyOfPlace/index.html.

Acker T. 2013. Project update 03: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies September 2014. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive1.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=198c0e30b8&e=0bd522bfe4.

Acker T. 2014. Project update 04: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies December 2014. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=984b13f20b.


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Booth J. 2014. Understanding buyer behaviour in the primary market for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art: Summary of key findings from Masters by Research. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/Summary_BuyerBehaviourPrimaryMarketAboriginalTorresStraitIslanderArt_KeyFindings.pdf.

Cairney S. 2015. Project update 01: Interplay project April 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive1.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=767ffdb3bc.

Dockery AM. 2015. Flyer: On the Move in Ltyentye Apurte: Findings from the Mobility Survey. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/LtyentyeApurteCommunityFlyer.pdf.

Ferguson J. 2014. NintiNews ‑ July 2014. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=70a7762cbf&e=0bd522bfe4.

Ferguson J. 2014. NintiNews ‑ September 2014. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive1.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=c2ed87cbd6&e=0bd522bfe4.

Guenther J. 2015. Project update 05: Remote Education Systems February 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=f231c0e897&e=0bd522bfe4.

Jacobsen D. 2014. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote tourism enterprise diversification. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/RRS007_EnterpriseDiversification.pdf.

Jacobsen D. 2014. Research Update - Visitors to Australia’s main remote tourism regions between 2009/2010 and 2012/2013. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/ResearchUpdate_VisitorNumbers.pdf.

Jacobsen D. 2014. Summary - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander remote tourism sector views on grants, funding and business training. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/ResearchSummary_ViewsOnBusinessAdviceSupport.pdf.

Jacobsen D. 2014. Summary - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism enterprise approaches to creating value for visitors in remote Australia. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/RRS006_CreatingValueBackground.pdf.

Jacobsen D. 2015. Group membership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism enterprises in remote Australia. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/RU014_GroupMembershipAboriginalTorresStraitIslanderTourismEnterprises.pdf.

Jacobsen D. 2015. Project update 03: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product June 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=7839ac85e0.

Race D. 2014. Project update 01: Climate Change Adaptation and Energy Futures October 2014. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive1.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=b48f0409fe.

Reeve R. 2014. NintiNews - October 2014. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=e3077e246d&e=0bd522bfe4.

Reeve R. 2014. NintiNews - November 2014. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=a8dbb9e635&e=0bd522bfe4.

Reeve R. 2015. NintiNews - February 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive1.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=412e6ee1c9&e=0bd522bfe4.

Reeve R. 2015. NintiNews - March 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=459b920422&e=0bd522bfe4.

Reeve R. 2015. NintiNews - April 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=4019299248&e=0bd522bfe4.

Reeve R. 2015. NintiNews - May 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=4f297b4314&e=0bd522bfe4.


Appendices

Reeve R. 2015. NintiNews - Special Miles Review Edition, May 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive1.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=81e1907ce9&e=0bd522bfe4.

Reeve R. 2015. NintiNews - June 2015. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=67deacae9e&e=0bd522bfe4.Ninti One Limited – Ninti News - March 2015 Reeve, R, Alice Springs http://us5.campaign‑archive2.com/?u=db0c44a0a4db4cce9a3dccec0&id=459b920422&e=0bd522bfe4

Ninti One Limited. 2014. ‘Ninti One Innovation for Remote Australia 2014’. 6:36. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roxir_U1Nj4.

Ninti One Limited. 2015. Ninti One Protocol for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge and Intellectual Property. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://nintione.com/sites/default/files/upload/NintiOneProtocolForAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderKnowledgeAndIntellectualProperty_2015.pdf.

Ninti One Limited. 2015. Infographic. A Snapshot of remote Australia http://www.nintione.com.au/sites/default/files/upload/remote_australia_infographic_09_feb_15_final_0.pdf

Datasets

Acker T and Woodhead A. 2015. Remote Australia Online Art Atlas: Art Financials. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://nintione.com.au/sites/default/files/resource/atlas/Art_Atlas_Artworks/atlas.html.

Acker T and Woodhead A. 2015. Remote Australia Online Art Atlas: Artworks and Artists. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://nintione.com.au/sites/default/files/resource/atlas/Art_Atlas_Artworks/atlas.html.

Film or broadcast

Cairney S and Abbott T. 2014. ‘Interplay Between Health, Wellbeing, Education and Employment Framework 24 July 2014’. 1:35. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATfxjyQTwuY&list=UUs2I6HBHW0RHPoDt2qFlswQ.

Cairney S and Abbott T. 2014. ‘Interplay Between Health, Wellbeing, Education and Employment Project’. 5:03. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKfLV5akz5c.

Haslam McKenzie F (appeared in show). 2014. ‘Boom or Bust’. Flying Miners. Episode 2. 28 October. 57 mins. Screentime. ABC TV.

Haslam McKenzie F (appeared in show). 2014. ‘Meet the FIFOs’. Flying Miners. Episode 1. 14 October. 56 mins. Screentime. ABC TV.

Haslam McKenzie F (appeared in show). 2014. ‘Money Trap’. Flying Miners. Episode 3. 4 November. 56 mins. Screentime. ABC TV.

Jacobsen D. 2015. ‘Benefits of clusters’. A short film from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product project. 19 May. Alice Springs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=679bbaTkxhw.

Jacobsen D. 2015. ‘Doing business Aboriginal way’. A short film from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product project. 19 May. Alice Springs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY86i059v_g.

Townsend P. 2015. ‘Thesis video report 1: Travelling together and sitting alongside’. Travelling together and sitting alongside. 3:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al2SYZ8vFiA.

Townsend P. 2015. ‘Thesis video report 2: Mobile devices for teacher training’. Travelling together and sitting alongside. 3:09. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=‑‑0CrV8oelg.


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Media releases

Ninti One Limited. 2014. CRC-REP Media Release: Plight of remote Australians is ‘a global shame’. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://crc‑rep.com/sites/default/files/upload/plight_of_remote_australians_is_a_global_shame_0.pdf.

Ninti One Limited. 2014. CRC-REP Media Release: Remote tourism partners ‘add value to Australia’. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://crc‑rep.com/sites/default/files/upload/crcrep_tourism_29sep14.pdf.

Ninti One Limited. 2014. CRC-REP Media Release: Research leader finalist in Women in Industry Award. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://crc‑rep.com/sites/default/files/upload/nol‑crcrep_fionaaward_25jun14.pdf.

Ninti One Limited. 2015. CRC-REP Media Release: ‘We need to understand our remote communities better’ says Dr Tom Calma, AO. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://crc‑rep.com/sites/default/files/upload/nol‑crcrep_remoteaus_12mar15.pdf.

Ninti One Limited. 2015. CRC-REP Media Release: Aboriginal art prospects brightening. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://crc‑rep.com/sites/default/files/upload/nol‑crcrep_arteconomies_1apr15.pdf.

Ninti One Limited. 2015. CRC-REP Media Release: On the move - a key to remote Australian success. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://crc‑rep.com/sites/default/files/upload/crc‑rep_mobility_2jun15.pdf.

University of New England and Ninti One Limited. 2014. UNE and CRC-REP Media Release: Mining town survival guide - cheap housing and tourism. Ninti One Limited. Armidale and Alice Springs. http://crc‑rep.com/sites/default/files/upload/mining_town_survival_guide_mr_dec14.pdf.

Presentation (not conference)

Abbott T. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Desert Knowledge Precinct, Alice Springs. 18 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑alice‑springs‑18‑november‑2014.

Acker T. 2015. The Art Economy of Remote Australia. Paper presented at the CAEPR Seminar Series, Australian National University, Canberra. 4 March. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/the‑art‑economy‑of‑remote‑australia.

Acker T. 2014. Charting the changes: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art industry in remote Australia. Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference 2014. 1–2 December. University of Western Australia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCfGTxfqahk.

Allen L. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Desert Knowledge Precinct, Alice Springs. 18 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑alice‑springs‑18‑november‑2014.

Allen L. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge & Education, Charles Darwin University, Darwin. 19 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑darwin‑wednesday‑18‑november‑2014.

Blackwell B and Dollery B. 2015. Resource taxation and remote Aboriginal expenditure. Presentation to the Sustainable Minerals Institute Seminar Series, University of Queensland. 12 February. Brisbane.

Blackwell B, Fischer A, McFarlane J, Dollery B and Blake S. 2015. Employment leakage by Local Government Area in the Northern Territory, Australia: the roles of industries, including mining. Australasian Conference on Business and Social Sciences: Towards Research Excellence in Business and Social Sciences. 13‑14 April. University of Central Queensland, Sydney.


Appendices

Cairney S and Abbott T. 2015. CRC-REP’s Interplay Project - Indigenous Research Roundtable, Sydney 2015. Approaching Indigenous research – ethics, protocols and the implications of collaborations. 2–4 February. World Universities Network Indigenous Research Network. Sydney. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/crcreps‑interplay‑project‑indigenous‑research‑roundtable‑sydney‑2015.

Calma T. 2014. Namatjira to Now. Opening of the Namatjira to Now Exhibition. 26 November. Parliament House, Canberra. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/namatjira‑to‑now‑tom‑calma.

Disbray S and Wigglesworth G. 2014. Remote Control: Language in Indigenous Education Policy and Practice. Australian Council of TESOL Associations Conference. 30 September ‑ 3 October. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑control‑language‑in‑indigenous‑education‑policy‑and‑practice.

Disbray S. 2014. Curriculum as Knowledge System: Warlpiri Pina‑jarrinjaku. International Association for Applied Linguistics World Congress. 10–15 August. Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/curriculum‑as‑knowledge‑system‑warlpiri‑pinajarrinjaku.

Disbray S. 2014. Evaluating the Northern Territory Bilingual Education Program. Strehlow Conference. 24–26 September. Araluen Centre, Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/evaluating‑the‑northern‑territory‑bilingual‑education‑program.

Dockery AM. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. EIDOS Congress, Powerhouse, Brisbane. 7 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑eidos‑congress‑brisbane‑7‑november‑2014.

Dockery AM and Spandonide B. 2014. Transport inequalities in remote Australia, presentation to Making Tracks as One. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation Community Transport Network Conference. 6 November. Darwin. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/transport‑inequalities‑in‑remote‑australia.

Dockery M. 2015. Population Mobility & Labour Markets Project. Ninti Networks, The Residency. 2 June. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/population‑mobility‑labour‑markets‑project.

Dockery M and Hampton K. 2015. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mobility in central Australia: A sneak preview of spatial dynamics in remote communities. CBS Economics Research Workshop 2015, Curtin University. 12–13 March. Ninti One Limited. The Novotel Vines, Swan Valley, Western Australia. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/aboriginal‑and‑torres‑strait‑islander‑mobility‑in‑central‑australia‑a‑sneak‑preview‑of‑spatial‑dynamicsin‑remote‑communities.

Foran T, Fleming D, Spandonide B, Williams R and Race D. 2014. Exploring energy futures for remote Australian communities. Joint 11th International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) Socio-Economic Metabolism section conference and the 4th ISIE Asia-Pacific conference: ‘Industrial Ecology in the Asia-Pacific Century: Interdisciplinary science for building sustainable industrial systems and human settlements’. 17–19 November. Melbourne. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/foran‑exploring‑energyfuturesremoteaustraliancommunitiesisie2014.

Guenther J. 2015. Complexity and chaos in remote schools. School of Education, Flinders University. 24 June. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/Guenther_ComplexityAndChaos.pdf.

Guenther J, McRae‑Williams E and Kilgariff C. 2014. Engineering employment pathways in remote communities and the (false) hope of collaborative service provision Paper presented at the NARU Public Seminar Series. 19 November. Ninti One Limited. Darwin. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/guenther‑enginerring‑employmentpathwaysnaru19nov2014.


Appendices

Guenther J and Galbraith M. 2014. Learning from evaluations of school–family strengthening programs: lessons for all. Australasian Evaluation Society International Conference: Unleashing the power of evaluation. 10–12 September. Darwin.

Guenther J. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge & Education, Charles Darwin University, Darwin. 19 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑darwin‑wednesday‑18‑november‑2014.

Guenther J. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. EIDOS Congress, Powerhouse, Brisbane. 7 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑eidos‑congress‑brisbane‑7‑november‑2014.

Haslam McKenzie F. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. EIDOS Congress, Powerhouse, Brisbane. 7 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑eidos‑congress‑brisbane‑7‑november‑2014.

Leigo S. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge & Education, Charles Darwin University, Darwin. 19 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑darwin‑wednesday‑18‑november‑2014.

Lee L. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Desert Knowledge Precinct, Alice Springs. 18 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑alice‑springs‑18‑november‑2014.

Lee L and Lingard K. 2014. Safeguarding Indigenous cultural heritage during commercialisation of native plants. 29th International Horticultural Congress: Sustaining Lives, Livelihoods and Landscapes. 17–22 August. Brisbane. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/lee‑lslingardk‑safeguardingindigenousculturalheritageduringcommercialisationnativeplantsihc14.

Leigo S, Phelps D, Brennan G, Driver T and McLean I. 2015. From concept to reality – developing new technology in remote Australia. Australian Rangeland Society 18th Biennial Conference. 12–16 April. Alice Springs.

Lingard K. 2014. Can cultural interests travel with native seeds accessed from Australian biobanks? ‘UNE Colloquium on Seed Banks and Cultural Interests in Seeds’ in conjunction with the Environmental Humanities Conference ‘Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions’. 21 June. Australian National University, Canberra.

Lingard K. 2014. Sustainable Land Management Panel – Bush food knowledge. International Expert Seminar on ‘Cultural diversity, food systems and traditional livelihoods’. 4–6 November. Cusco, Peru. http://www.fao.org/americas/eventos/ver/en/c/243308/.

McRae‑Williams E. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge & Education, Charles Darwin University, Darwin. 19 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑darwin‑wednesday‑18‑november‑2014.

McRae‑Williams E. 2014. Pathways to Employment project - Reference Group workshop presentation. Darwin. 22 October. Ninti One Ltd. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/pathways‑to‑employment‑project‑reference‑group‑workshop‑presentation.

Ninti One Limited. 2014. ‘Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy’. 5:41. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l9a1NuTcuE.

Race D and Mathew S. 2014. Examining pathways for climate adaptation for communities in remote Australia: Experiences from desert communities. Climate Adaptation 2014: Future Challenges. 30 September ‑ 2 October. Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/examining‑pathways‑for‑climate‑adaptation‑for‑communities‑in‑remote‑australia‑experiences‑from‑desert‑communities.


Appendices

Reeve R. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Desert Knowledge Precinct, Alice Springs. 18 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑alice‑springs‑18‑november‑2014.

Reeve R. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge & Education, Charles Darwin University, Darwin. 19 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑darwin‑wednesday‑18‑november‑2014.

Reeve R. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. EIDOS Congress, Powerhouse, Brisbane. 7 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑eidos‑congress‑brisbane‑7‑november‑2014.

Robertson S. 2015. How do mining towns contribute community value?: Roxby Downs and Leigh Creek. Australian Rangeland Society 18th Biennial Conference “Innovation in the Rangelands”. 12–16 April. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/how‑do‑mining‑towns‑contribute‑community‑value‑roxby‑downs‑and‑leigh‑creek.

Spandonide B. 2015. Innovative transport options for enhancing liveability in Australia’s Rangelands. Australian Rangeland Society 18th Biennial Conference “Innovation in the Rangelands”. 12–16 April. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/innovative‑transport‑options‑for‑enhancing‑liveability‑in‑australias‑rangelands.

Twigg P. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. Desert Knowledge Precinct, Alice Springs. 18 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑alice‑springs‑18‑november‑2014.

Williams K,. 2014. Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy. EIDOS Congress, Powerhouse, Brisbane. 7 November. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.slideshare.net/Ninti_One/remote‑wisdom‑eidos‑congress‑brisbane‑7‑november‑2014.

ReportsAcker T and Woodhead A. 2014. The Art Economies Value Chain reports: Art Centre finances. CRC‑REP Research Report CR006. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR006_AEVC_ArtCentreFinances.pdf.

Cassells R, Dockery AM, Duncan A, Gao G, Leong K and Mavisakalyan A. 2014. Workforce and Skills. Western Australian labour markets in transition, Issue 14/3, August 2014. Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Focus on Western Australia Series 14/3. Curtin Business School. Perth. http://business.curtin.edu.au/local/docs/BCEC_Workforce‑and‑Skills‑August‑2014.pdf.

Congreve S and Acker T. 2015. Funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art centre peak agencies: an examination of the funding environment, 2004–2013. CRC‑REP Research Report CR010. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR010_FundingForArtPeakAgencies2004‑2013.pdf.

Dockery AM and Hampton K. 2015. The dynamics of services, housing, jobs and mobility in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in central Australia. CRC‑REP Working Paper CW023. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CW023_DynamicsServicesHousingJobsMobilityRemoteCommunities.pdf.

Foran T, Fleming D and Spandonide B. 2014. A conversation about energy futures for remote Australian communities. CRC‑REP Working paper CW019. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CW019_ConversationAboutEnergyFuturesRemoteCommunities.pdf.

Foran T, Williams R, Spandonide B, Fleming D, Race D and Dowd A‑M. 2015. A conversation about energy futures for remote Australian communities – summary and analysis of workshop findings. CRC‑REP Working Paper CW021. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CW021_ConversationEnergyFutures_SummaryWorkshop.pdf.


Appendices

Foran T, Williams R, Spandonide B, Fleming D, Race D and Dowd A‑M. 2015. A conversation about energy futures for remote Australian communities – theory and detailed workshop findings. CRC‑REP Working Paper CW022. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CW022_ConversationEnergyFuturesRemoteCommunities_Theory.pdf.

Guenther J. 2014. Families and Schools Together (FAST) at Gillen Primary School: The sustained impact of a family-strengthening process. CRC‑REP Research Report CR002. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR002_FASTatGillenPrimarySchool.pdf.

Guenther J. 2015. Overview of Remote Education Systems qualitative results. CRC‑REP Working Paper CW025. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.

Jacobsen D and Tiyce M. 2014. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism enterprise approaches to creating value for visitors in remote Australia. CRC‑REP Research Report CR003. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR003_AboriginalTorresStraitIslanderTourismEnterprisesCreatingValue.pdf.

Race D. 2015. The impacts of, and strategies to ameliorate, the intensity of climate change on enterprises in remote Australia. CRC‑REP Working Paper CW020. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CW020_ClimateChangeImpactsOnEnterprises.pdf.

Shepheard M, Perry M and Martin P. 2014. What do you really need to know? An overview of the challenges associated with the management of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge by seed bank institutions. CRC‑REP Working Paper CW018 Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CW018_ManagingKnowledgeSeedBankInstitutions.pdf.

Woodhead A. 2014. The Art Economies Value Chain reports: Art business trading practices and policy views. CRC‑REP Research Report CR008. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR008_ArtCentreTradingPractices.pdf.

Woodhead A. 2015. Productivity, income and gender: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. CRC‑REP Research Report CR012. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.

Woodhead A and Acker T. 2014. The Art Economies Value Chain reports: Artists and Art Centre production. CRC‑REP Research Report CR007. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR007_ArtCentreProduction.pdf.

Woodhead A and Acker T. 2014. The Art Economies Value Chain reports: Methodology and Art regions. CRC‑REP Research Report CR005. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs.http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR005_AEVC_MethodologyArtRegions.pdf.

Woodhead A and Acker T. 2014. The Art Economies Value Chain reports: Synthesis. CRC‑REP Research Report CR004. Ninti One Limited. Alice Springs. http://www.crc‑rep.com.au/resource/CR004_AEVC_Synthesis.pdf.

Web pageLeigo S. 2015. Guest blog – Cows and technology in remote Australia. iinet. Retrieved from http://blog.iinet.net.au/technology‑in‑the‑beef‑industry‑of‑remote‑australia/.

Ninti One Submissions

Ninti One Limited. 2014. Submission to the draft Northern Territory Economic Development Strategy. Northern Territory Government. Darwin. http://www.nintione.com.au/resource/Submission_NTEconomicDevelopmentStrategy_Dec2014.pdf.

Regional Australia Institute, James Cook University, Central Queensland University, University of Notre Dame and Ninti One Limited. 2014. Joint submission to the Northern Australia Taskforce Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Ninti One. Alice Springs. http://www.nintione.com.au/resource/JointSubmission_NorthAustraliaTaskforcePMC.pdf.


Appendices

Appendix 3: PhD Students

Student Name Research Organisation

Commencement and Completion Date

Thesis Title CRC-REP Project

Paulina Sepulveda‑Bravo

Curtin University

February 2012 – August 2015

Measuring the economic impact of the minerals sector, a Western Australian perspective

Program 1 – Enduring Community Value from Mining

Stuart Robertson University of New England

November 2012 – November 2015

Mine lifecycle planning to ensure enduring value to remote communities


Anne Fordham University of South Australia

January 2014 – January 2017

Corporate social responsibility of Mining Companies in rural communities in South Australia and beyond


Kate Rampellini Curtin University

April 2014 – December 2016

Creating a multidisciplinary, multiscale spatial scenario model of the Pilbara region


Kylie Lingard University of New England

April 2012 – August 2015

Law and institutional reforms to more effectively enable and support the protection and use of Traditional Knowledge in economic enterprise

Program 2 – Plant Business

Tessa Benveniste Central Queensland University

March 2014 – March 2017

Beyond Boarding: An exploration of post‑boarding school aspirations and outcomes for Australian Indigenous students, their parents and their communities

Program 2 – Plant Business

Kim Peterson Curtin University

November 2012 – May 2016

Mapping the value chain characteristics of remote Aboriginal Art Centres in promoting cultural capital to enhance economic benefit

Program 2 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies

Susan Congreve Curtin University

November 2012 – May 2016

Unpredictable successes and foreseeable failures – art centres in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Program 2 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies

Catherine Joyce Charles Darwin University

July 2013 – June 2017

Climate change adaptation in remote Australia. The potential for renewable energy to support local economic development and sustainable livelihoods in remote Australia

Program 2 – Climate Change Adaptation, Energy Futures and Carbon Economies


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Student Name Research Organisation

Commencement and Completion Date

Thesis Title CRC-REP Project

Janine Ashwell

Completed June 2014

Flinders University

February 2012 – June 2015

Drivers of destination choice in Aboriginal tourism

Program 2 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product

Skye Akbar University of South Australia

February 2012 – August 2015

Branding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tourism. A marketing perspective for remote Australian economies

Program 2 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Tourism Product

Judy Lovell

Completed June 2014

University of Canberra

June 2010 – June 2014

When the studio left the room: what do Wallace’s paintings and stories of the Eastern Arrernte homelands reveal?

Program 3 – Interplay between health, education and wellbeing

Patricia Burke Flinders University

February 2012 – June 2017

NOMADS DON’T WALK (education and perspiration in a remote Aboriginal community)

Program 3 – Remote Education Systems

Philip Townsend Flinders University

April 2012 – October 2015

Travelling together and sitting alongside: The use of mobile technologies in the training and professional development of Aboriginal teachers in remote communities – boosting retention rates through content provision, administrative support, and personal encouragement


Jillian Miller Flinders University

February 2014 – January 2017

Aboriginal Student Success: Inclusive effective and transferrable best practices that has enabled SACE completion for Aboriginal students in rural and remote locations


Sam Osborne Victoria University

August 2009 – November 2015

Informing education leaders in tri‑state remote communities



Type Who What Date Location

Conference Tim Acker participated in NAIDOC Program: Aboriginal Design Collaboration

NAIDOC Program: Aboriginal Design Collaboration

11 July 2014 Gold Coast City Gallery

Conference Stuart Robertson – PhD Student ‘Delivering sustainable legacies through integrated Life‑of‑Mine Planning’

AusIMM Conference, Life Of Mine 2014

15 July 2014 Brisbane

Seminar Tim Acker and Jessica Booth

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF)

25 July 2014 Cairns

Workshop Byron Wilson, John Guenther, Samantha Disbray and Sam Osborne

Workforce Planning Thinking Outside The Tank

30 July 2014 Darwin

Conference Samantha Disbray and Sam Osborne attended

Garma Festival 2014 1–4 August 2014 Nhulunbuy on the Central Arnhem Highway

Conference John Guenther Australasian Evaluation Society Conference 2014

12 September 2014

Charles Darwin University

Conference John Guenther Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre (KALACC) Festival

22–26 September 2014

Jarlmadangah Burru

Conference Philip Townsend Australian Computers in Education Conference

1 October 2014 Adelaide

Workshop John Guenther, Samantha Disbray, Sam Osborne, Tessa Benveniste

Thinking Outside The Tank: Why Boarding?

8 October 2014 Alice Springs

Workshop Damien Jacobsen Clustering Event 15 October 2014 Oongkalkada Wilderness Camp, WA

Conference Tim Acker Regional Arts Australian National Summit Panel #1

18 October 2014 Sydney

Conference Tim Acker Regional Arts Australian National Summit Panel #2

18 October 2014 Sydney

Advisory Group Meeting

Eva McRae‑Williams Darwin Advisory Group meeting

22 October 2014 Darwin

Award Sam Osborne Nomination to the Independent Schools Teaching Excellence Awards for “Outstanding Contribution to Indigenous Education”.

October 2014 Nitmiluk Lounge, Parliament House, Darwin

Public Event Sally Leigo Cattle and pasture performance data without the sweat!

28 October 2014 Maree Field Day

Appendix 4: Events, Conferences and Workshops table

Appendices



Conference Tim Acker Indigenous Art Centre Alliance: Annual Conference

30 October 2014 Queensland

Seminar Kylie Lingard International Expert Seminar on ‘Cultural Diversity, Food Systems and Traditional Livelihoods’

4 November 2014 Cusco, Peru

Conference Bruno Spandonide The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation, Community Transport Network (NATSICCTN)

5 November 2014 The Hilton Hotel, Darwin

Public Event Tom Calma, Kerry O’Brien, Rod Reeve, Sally Leigo, Mike Dockery, John Guenther, Fiona McKenzie

Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy

7 November 2014 Powerhouse Museum, Brisbane

Public Event Fiona McKenzie Senate enquiry into housing affordability

11 November 2014

Curtin University, Perth

Public Event Fiona McKenzie National Minerals Council Conference

17 November 2014

Adelaide

Public Event Fran Kilgariff, Rod Reeve, Slade Lee, Peter Twigg, Tammy Abbott

Remote Wisdom: Innovation for remote Australia and its relevance to policy

18 November 2014

Ninti One Office, Alice Springs

Public Event John Guenther, Eva McRae‑Williams

NARU Presentations

Engineering employment pathways in remote communities and the (false) hope of collaborative service provision

19 November 2014

ACIKE, CDU, Darwin


Fiona McKenzie, Steve Blake

ECVM Advisory Committee

20 November 2014

Darwin


Slade Lee Plant Business Advisory Group meeting

24 November 2014

Melbourne

Workshop John Guenther RES Lecture Series: What is education for in a remote school and community?

26 November 2014

Uni SA Adelaide

Conference Kim Petersen – PhD Student

Sustainability Conference 1 December 2014 Brisbane

Conference John Guenther, Tessa Benveniste

AARE/NZARE Conference

1 December 2014 Brisbane

Workshop Beth Woodward and Ingrid Johansen

Stronger Communities for Children Knowledge Sharing Seminar

3 December 2014 Charles Darwin University, NT

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Workshop John Guenther Seminar: How can academia contribute to participatory methodologies for community engagement in the diverse cultural contexts of remote Australia?

20 February 2015 Charles Darwin University, NT

Workshop Mary‑Anne Healy, Kevin Williams

National meeting of Stream Projects, NRM Planning for Climate Change

24 February 2015 Sydney

Workshop/ Seminar

Tim Acker CAEPR Seminar 14 March 2015 Australian National University, Canberra

Workshop/ Seminar

Steve Fisher Community engagement and mining

5 March 2015 Santiago, Chile

Workshop/ Seminar

All Principal Research Leaders

Project Review Meetings 23 March 2015 Alice Springs

Public event Tim Acker Desart Conference / Art summary publication launch

31 March 2015 Alice Springs

Conference Mary‑Anne Healy, Rod Reeve, Kevin Williams, Apolline Kohen, Stuart Robertson, Mike Dockery, Bruno Spandonide

Innovation in the Rangelands – 18th Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society

1 April 2015 Alice Springs

Workshop Damien Jacobsen Business Models for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Remote Tourism Enterprises

2 April 2015 Kimberley

Conference Boyd Blackwell Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences Conference

13–14 April 2015 Sydney

Workshop Ingrid Johanson, Beth Woodward

SCFC Seminar 14–15 April 2015 Alice Springs

Workshop/Seminar

John Guenther RES Lecture: The advantaged and disadvantaged of remote schools

30 April 2015 Adelaide

Workshop/Seminar

John Guenther RES Lecture: Workforce Development: How do we get the help that we need?

April 2015 Alice Springs

Workshop/Seminar

Samantha Disbray RES Lecture: Language, land and culture: ingredients for a meaningful remote education

30 April 2015 Darwin/Alice Springs

Webinar John Guenther Practice‑based best evidence: What evidence base counts when evaluating good practice in program delivery?

28 April 2015 Webinar



Conference Andy Bubb, Kevin Williams, Mary‑Anne Healy

Beef Week. 1 May 2015 Rockhampton

Conference Philip Townsend Australian Computers in Education conference

1 May 2015 Adelaide

Workshop Judy Lovell Synthesis and Integration presentation

6 May 2015 CDU, Alice Springs

Workshop/ Seminar

Tim Acker Presentation to the Australia Council

21 May 2015 Sydney

Workshop/ Seminar

Rod Reeve, Glenise Coulthard, Linda Cooper

CRCA Showcase 26 May 2015 Parliament House, Canberra

Workshop/ Seminar

John Guenther RES lecture: Successful remote schools: What are they?

12 May 2015 Broome

Conference Philip Townsend Australian Computers in Education Conference

1 June 2015 Adelaide

Public Event Mike Dockery, Rod Reeve, Tom Calma

Ninti Networks 2 June 2015 Alice Springs

Workshop Samantha Disbray RES Lecture: Teacher qualities and quality

June 2015 Alice Springs

Workshop John Guenther RES Lecture: Responding to complexity and chaos in remote schools

24 June 2015 Adelaide


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