2022 Seminars
A Presentation of the book: Voices from the Front Line: Community leaders, government managers and NGO field staff talk about what’s wrong in Aboriginal development and what they are doing to fix it.
Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Start Date
21-9-2022 12:30 PM
Description
Patrick Sullivan will give an informal presentation of the origins, process, and findings of the book Voices from the Frontline that is currently being finalised for publication through the Nulungu Publication Series in late 2022. This presentation will be a to a small but dedicated live audience only and interested persons are welcome to attend.
In 2018 and 2019, as part of the ARC project Reciprocal Accountability and Public Value in Aboriginal Organisations, a series of workshops were held with the three most significant sectors that provide services to Aboriginal people in the Kimberley: Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, non-Indigenous NGO providers, and government agencies. The purpose of the workshops was to allow the leaders and front-line workers from these three major sectors of Aboriginal service delivery to talk about the impediments they struggled with in improving the life conditions of Aboriginal people. The researchers’ intention was to encourage workers in each sector to contribute their thoughts honestly in a safe space with their peers, then to edit all the contributions so that they talk to each other across common themes and topics. The themes that arose most prominently were: Leadership and Aboriginal Organisations; Frustration with Bureaucratic Process; Competition, Suspicion, Complaint Culture, Failure, and Trust; and The Future, Culture and Self-determination, Economic Development, Employment, and the Youth. The book is divided into four sections, each covering one of these themes and its sub-topics.
The transcript of the contributions, initially over 100,000 words, were edited by Patrick down to 40,000 words of the most pertinent contributions and then arranged in common topics in which the contributions speak to each other, sometimes in agreement, sometimes at odds, or offering further insights. In this seminar Patrick will introduce these topics and present some of pertinent contributions.
Recommended Citation
Sullivan, Patrick, "A Presentation of the book: Voices from the Front Line: Community leaders, government managers and NGO field staff talk about what’s wrong in Aboriginal development and what they are doing to fix it." (2022). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 15.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2022/schedule/15
A Presentation of the book: Voices from the Front Line: Community leaders, government managers and NGO field staff talk about what’s wrong in Aboriginal development and what they are doing to fix it.
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Patrick Sullivan will give an informal presentation of the origins, process, and findings of the book Voices from the Frontline that is currently being finalised for publication through the Nulungu Publication Series in late 2022. This presentation will be a to a small but dedicated live audience only and interested persons are welcome to attend.
In 2018 and 2019, as part of the ARC project Reciprocal Accountability and Public Value in Aboriginal Organisations, a series of workshops were held with the three most significant sectors that provide services to Aboriginal people in the Kimberley: Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, non-Indigenous NGO providers, and government agencies. The purpose of the workshops was to allow the leaders and front-line workers from these three major sectors of Aboriginal service delivery to talk about the impediments they struggled with in improving the life conditions of Aboriginal people. The researchers’ intention was to encourage workers in each sector to contribute their thoughts honestly in a safe space with their peers, then to edit all the contributions so that they talk to each other across common themes and topics. The themes that arose most prominently were: Leadership and Aboriginal Organisations; Frustration with Bureaucratic Process; Competition, Suspicion, Complaint Culture, Failure, and Trust; and The Future, Culture and Self-determination, Economic Development, Employment, and the Youth. The book is divided into four sections, each covering one of these themes and its sub-topics.
The transcript of the contributions, initially over 100,000 words, were edited by Patrick down to 40,000 words of the most pertinent contributions and then arranged in common topics in which the contributions speak to each other, sometimes in agreement, sometimes at odds, or offering further insights. In this seminar Patrick will introduce these topics and present some of pertinent contributions.
