Leading from Between
Leading from Between Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Their presence raises numerous questions:…
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Leading from Between
Since the 1970s governments in Canada and Australia have introduced policies designed to recruit Indigenous people into public services. Their presence raises numerous questions: How do Indigenous people experience public-sector employment? Today, there are thousands of Indigenous public servants in these countries, and hundreds in senior roles.
And how does Indigenous leadership enhance public policy making? What perspectives do they bring to it? A comparative study of Indigenous public servants in British Columbia and Queensland, Leading from Between addresses critical concerns about leadership, difference, and public service.
Centring the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants, this book uses their stories and testimony to explore how Indigenous participation and leadership change the way policies are made. Articulating a new understanding of