Cultural disconnection- EDR Schemes and Indigenous Australia

The Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network Ltd (ICAN) would like to highlight a recent essay entitled, Cultural disconnection – EDR Schemes and Indigenous Australia. Mike Collins, author of the essay has a long-standing working relationship with ICAN and recently visited our Cairns office and Jumbun, a remote Aboriginal community of in Far North Queensland.

The author is in the Mediation and Conflict Resolution Program at the University of Queensland. He is a Senior Investigations Officer at the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) and has a coordinating role with the TIO’s Indigenous Liaison Team. The views expressed in the paper are personal.

To read the essay click here.