[Anthropgrad] CAEPR Seminar Wed 23 April; 12.30 - Inge Kral, David Brooks and Robin Smythe

[Katarina Ferro]

CAEPR Seminar. Wed 23 April 2008, Humanities Conference Room, First 
Floor, A.D. Hope Bldg #14 (opposite Chifley Library)


    Voting with their feet: Population study in the Ngaanyatjarra region

—Inge Kral (Post-Doctoral Fellow, CAEPR), David Brooks and Robin Smythe 
(Ngaanyatjarra Council)

*Abstract:* Analysts of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census 
data have commonly observed that the census enumeration in remote 
Indigenous regions of Australia underestimates the actual number of 
Indigenous people. Such underestimations of remote population groups 
have dire consequences not only for appropriate service delivery in such 
extreme regions, but also contribute to a misguided public perception 
that the population in remote Indigenous regions is declining. Clearly a 
better approach to undertaking census counts is needed in remote 
Australia. In this seminar David Brooks and Inge Kral will discuss a 
case study population survey in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands region of 
Western Australia undertaken in response to concerns that the official 
ABS 2006 census count in the area was lower than expected. Brooks and 
Kral will outline the anthropological methodology used to survey the 
population and ultimately attain a more accurate count. Factors 
accounting for Ngaanyatjarra spatial location including mobility and 
connectedness to country will also be analysed and discussed. The 
seminar will be introduced by Robin Smythe, Chairman of the 
Ngaanyatjarra Council and Visiting Indigenous Fellow at CAEPR.

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