Indigenous Futures: Choice and Development for Aboriginal and Islander Australia

As a result of self-determination policy, the ‘Indigenous Sector’ - thousands of Indigenous organisations established since the early 1970s - has flourished, enhancing the Indigenous capacity to make choices. Tim Rowse reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research’s social scientific representation of the ‘Indigenous interest’ and argues that in any debate on the Indigenous future, we must also pay attention to what social scientists have to say.