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had been a lot of criticism by politicians, and there were indeed many examples of waste, new houses built in uninhabited places, and suchlike. However, there were also thriving and well-run communities, and it was intended to review the funding of the ORAs, increase accountability and implement management techniques which would keep the elements of outstations which improved the lives of their residents. By this time, however, the costs associated with running the outstations were very high, and political will had dwindled. Recommendations were made on the assumption that ATSIC, or something similar, would continue.
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Oftentimes, these relocations were supported by government and overall wellbeing improvements for those who had relocated were able to be seen, demonstrating the importance of self-autonomy and a cultural connection to country. What started as a few small breakaway groups lead into much larger outstation settlements. Many of these communities are now thriving as responsibility of the land and community has returned to traditional owners and cultural connections have improved. Outstations have also been referred to as homelands.
82:. It was "a move towards reclaiming autonomy and self-sufficiency". Also known as "homelands", the term "outstation" was adopted as it "suggests a dependent relationship between the outstation and the main homestead, but with a degree of separation". Outstations were created by Aboriginal people who "sought... autonomy in deciding the meaning of their life independently of projects promoted by the state and market", and could be seen as a sign of remote 386:, and housing maintenance. However, there was concern that many remote schools and other services were under-funded, and a review of the policy, previously revised in 2015, had not been completed by November 2020. While the NT government remains committed to supporting the homelands, which had been shown to enhance educational outcomes for Aboriginal people, the funding source for the future remained unclear. In 2015, the then 265:
more realistic framework for the allocation of limited government resources... consistent with Government policy on remote service delivery". It said that it would continue to support current outstations, where residents reside for a minimum of 8-9 months a year, and where there was an adequate supply of fresh drinking water, but residents must "commit to increasing
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issued a policy statement on outstations/homelands, in which it stated that it: "values the contribution of outstations and homelands to the economic social and cultural life of the Territory...". The policy outlined new service delivery processes, and "introduce a new disbursement model based on a
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A review was commissioned by ATSIC in 1997, at which time there were about 12,000 Indigenous Australians living at about 1,000 outstations. It was intended to provide data that would reduce waste and improve efficiency, while supported by the commissioners who allocated funding. By this time, there
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There is a large diversity among the outstations: most comprise small family groups; a few have more than 100 people. Some are only seasonally or rarely occupied, and in most there is much movement of people between the outstations and larger centres. Some have or had thriving local economies based
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Within the Australian Indigenous context, outstation refers to remote and small groups of First Nations people who relocated for resistance, in the face of assimilation. This occurred predominantly in the 1970s – 1980s and was aimed at providing autonomy for Indigenous people opposing conformance.
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Individual small communities continue to exist, although not described as outstations because they are not part of a federal or other program that advocates "the homeland ideal"; "settlements" is the more usual term these days. They survive on one-off grants for such things as Indigenous business
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in 2013, there were 10,000 people living on 520 homelands, representing about 25 per cent of the remote Indigenous population of the NT, in about 2,400 dwellings. She spoke of the benefits of the homelands, "in health and wellbeing and social harmony". She said that her government reaffirmed the
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Funding the outstations proved extremely expensive, and as government ideologies changed, they were seen as wasteful of resources. Adequate health services were not provided and training and employment opportunities were not funded. By the 1990s the difficulties emerged with the decentralisation
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The Blanchard report gave formal recognition of the importance of outstations, giving 58 recommendations aimed at "improving the economic security and viability of outstations and increasing the level of services available to outstation residents". At this time the good effects of outstations on
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gave responsibility for outstations back to the Territory. By this act, the chronic underfunding was continued. The NT developed a new policy, contained in a framework called "Working Future", published in May 2009. The policy targeted delivery of support and services to 20 larger Aboriginal
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A movement arose in the 1970s and continued through the 1980s which saw the creation of very small, remote settlements of Aboriginal people who relocated themselves from the towns and settlements where they had been settled by the government's policy of
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Homelands is the preferred name for some, but not all, regions of the Territory. Outstations/homelands will be used as a generic description. Outstations or homelands will continue to be used interchangeably as appropriate to each
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In 1987 an inquiry into "he social and economic circumstances of Aboriginal people living in homeland centres or outstations, and the development of policies and programs to meet their future needs" was undertaken by the
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process: some services were extremely expensive to deliver to multiple tiny communities in remote places with few possibilities for economic self-sufficiency. From 1990, the outstations were largely funded via the
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and to retain connections to ancestral lands and ancestors, or because they wish to live off the land, or to escape social dysfunction prevalent in larger towns and communities (as later described in the
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communities in the NT, to be called "Territory Growth Towns", which would benefit from federal funding. This ended the 20-year commitment to support homelands following the Blanchard review in 1987.
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Altman, J.; Gillespie, D.; Palmer, K. (1998). National Review of Resource Agencies Servicing Indigenous Communities, 1998 (Report). Canberra: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
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Provide funding and support for homeland communities in all states and territories through the COAG National Indigenous Reform Agreement and associated National Partnership Agreements.
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to smaller settlements on their traditional lands. Governments were supportive of the moves, seeing benefits in health and well-being, maintenance of culture and the preservation of
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integral role of the homelands in the Territory, and were committed to providing homelands residents with the same services as other residents of the NT, "within reason".
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abolished ATSIC in 2005, after saying a year earlier that "the experiment in elected representation for Indigenous people has been a failure". In September 2007, during the
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Getting strength from country: report of the Outstation Impact Project: concerning the delivery of health services to outstations in the Kimberley region, Western Australia
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Myers, Fred; Peterson, Nicolas (January 2016). "1. The origins and history of outstations as Aboriginal life projects". In Peterson, Nicolas; Myers, Fred (eds.).
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In October 2021, the NT Government asked the federal government to speed up its program of home construction and upgrades, as housing in some homelands such as
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As of September 2020 there were around 500 homelands in the Northern Territory, which include 2,400 residences housing about 10,000 people. The
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By 2009, there were 560 small communities, mostly inhabited by fewer than 100 people scattered across the NT. They are nearly all located on
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Government support for outstations has ebbed and flowed over time. During the 1970s and 1980s several groups moved from towns,
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assumed responsibility for the outstations, despite a lack of underlying policy, and they grew in number, particularly in the
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Palmer, Kingsley (January 2016). "10. Homelands as outstations of public policy". In Peterson, Nicolas; Myers, Fred (eds.).
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Develop and implement future homeland policies with the active participation of leaders from homeland communities; and
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From 2004 there was a major shift in both policy at both state and federal level with regard to funding outstations.
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Review the Working Future policy with the active participation of representative leaders from homeland communities;
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Morice, Rodney D. (1976). "Woman Dancing Dreaming: Psychosocial Benefits of the Aboriginal Outstation Movement".
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As of 2018, there were about 1,200 outstations in Australia, and seen as significant for the maintenance of
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delivers services via its Homelands Program by funding service providers who provide housing maintenance,
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Morice RD, (1976), Woman dancing dreaming: Psychosocial benefits of the aboriginal outstation movement,
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Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives
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Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia [blurb]
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Terminology has varied over time and by region. In a 2009 policy statement on homelands by the
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acknowledgement of the significance of Aboriginal peoples moving back to traditional country
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an acknowledgement of the traditional connection to the land and the ancestral spirits; and
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announced that it would cease funding 150 remote communities because it lacked the funds.
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refers to the voluntary relocation of Aboriginal people from towns to these locations.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (23 December 2009).
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Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia
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Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia
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On 14 May 1987 the Committee tabled its report (the "Blanchard Report"), entitled
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Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the Northern Territory (APO NT) (October 2011).
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for a particular type of educational facility provided to the small communities.
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was so derelict and overcrowded that residents were living in tents.
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Return to country: the Aboriginal homelands movement in Australia
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residents' quality of life and aspirations were recognised.
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Inquiry into the Aboriginal homelands movement in Australia
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Indigenous Health and Wellbeing: The Importance of Country
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Outstations mentioned in the Blanchard report include:
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a clear distinction between homelands and settlements,
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is a very small, often remote, permanent community of
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Chapter 4: Sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities
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Peterson, Nicolas; Myers, Fred, eds. (January 2016).
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Most outstations were/are in the Northern Territory.
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Index

Outstation movement
Outstation
Aboriginal Australian
kinship
assimilation
Aboriginal Australians' attempt at self-determination
sacred sites
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
missions
Aboriginal reserves
connection to country
self-determination
land rights
assimilation
Commonwealth government
Northern Territory
Indigenous rangers
Northern Territory Government
Homeland Learning Centres
House of Representatives
Allen Blanchard
missions
reserves
traditional home territory
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
John Howard
Northern Territory National Emergency Response
Howard government
Aboriginal-owned land
Northern Territory Government

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