Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Resources

This LibGuide provides a starting point for finding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander library materials, resources and subject guides

Articles

Tax law and policy for Indigenous economic development
This paper discusses tax law and policy for Indigenous economic development, with a particular focus on business taxation. Could be used for reflecting on impact of work; reflecting on impact of colonialism.
Indigenous Settlement Trusts: Recharacterising the nature of taxation
This article examines how Indigenous Settlement Trusts ("Settlement Trusts"), established for the benefit of First Nations peoples, are affected by the Income Tax Act (" Tax Act").
The taxation of mining payments to traditional owners: an unfair blunt tool?
Argues that Australian taxation law does not promote justice and reconciliation but rather operates as a blunt tool. Could be used for reflecting on impact of work; considering best practice.
Taxes, taxpayers, and settler colonialism: Towards a critical fiscal sociology of tax as white property
Based in Canada, this article theorises how ‘tax imaginaries and ‘taxpayer’ subjectivities are forged through state policy and how fiscal concerns are imbricated with white political entitlement that erodes Indigenous sovereignty. Could be used for considering best practice; reflecting on ways of working, being and knowing within a colonial structure.