Socioeconomics

Objectives

The Socioeconomics Research Theme’s focus is the quantification of the cumulative economic and commercial benefits derived from an Indigenous Restoration Economy, including measurement of labour, wages growth, employment statistics, productivity, savings in welfare payments and ongoing investment in local and regional enterprise. In addition, calculations of economic multipliers associated with applied skills training, individual employment, and enterprise opportunities to assist in the assessment of the direct and indirect impacts on government support payments and linkages between social and civic infrastructure and social and economic resilience. 

Theme Co-Leaders 

Heidi Mippy

Heidi Mippy

Lead of Cultural Capability and Capacity Building

Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie

Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie

Deputy Director