This book focuses on Indigenous self-determined and community-owned responses to complex socioeconomic and political challenges in Australia, and explores Indigenous policy development and policy expertise. It critically considers current practices and issues central to policy change and Indigenous futures. The book foregrounds the resurgence that is taking place in Indigenous governing and policy-making, providing case studies of local and community-based policy development and implementation. The chapters highlight new Australian work on what is an international phenomenon.
This book brings together senior and early career political scientists and policy scholars, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars working on problems of Indigenous policy and governance.

1. Introduction: Public Policy and Indigenous Futures

   • Nikki Moodie, Sarah Maddison

   Pages 1-11

2. Indigenous Public Policy Futures: A Manifesto for Relationalist Public Administration

   • Mary Graham, Morgan Brigg

   Pages 13-26

3. Success and Failure in Australian Indigenous Policy: Moral Dynamics and Rhetorical Registers

   • Will Sanders

   Pages 27-49

4. Caring for Country as Deliberative Policymaking

   • Justin McCaul

   Pages 51-71

5. Future-Proofing Indigenous Self-Determination in Health: Goals, Tactics, and Achievements of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations in New South Wales, Australia

   • David Coombs

   Pages 73-93

6. Stepping Stones to Indigenous Futures: Rethinking Precarity in Indigenous Education and Work

   • Nikki Moodie

   Pages 95-109

7. Treaty as a Pathway to Indigenous Controlled Policy: Making Space, Partnering, and Honouring New Relationships

   • Sarah Maddison, Anya Thomas

   Pages 111-128

8. Yes, The Time Is Now: Indigenous Nation Policy Making for Self-determined Futures

   • Miriam Jorgensen, Alison Vivian, Anthea Compton, Donna Murray, Debra Evans, Janine Gertz

   Pages 129-147