Professor Patrick Sullivan

• Sullivan, P., Thorburn, K., Golson, K., Hunt, J. & Lahn, J. 2023 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. Nulungu Research Institute, Broome.
• Sullivan, P. 2011 Belonging Together: Dealing with the Politics of Disenchantment in Australian Indigenous Policy, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1996 All Free Man Now: Culture, Community and Politics in the Kimberley Region North Western Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.
• Lahn, J; Strakosch, E; and Sullivan, P (eds) 2024 Bureaucratic Occupation: Government and First Nations Peoples, in series Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, editors Sarah Maddison and Sana Nakata, Julia Hurst, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland.

• Sullivan, P. 2025 Belonging in the Country: the Mythic Landscape of Australian Monoculturalism, in Bernard C Perley (ed) Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln:45-70.
• Sullivan, P 2024 Mending Bureaucracy's Splintered Soul: Cultural Subsidiarity for Indigenous Organisations, in Lahn, J; Strakosch, E; and Sullivan, P (eds) Bureaucratic Occupation: Government and First Nations Peoples, in series Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, editors Sarah Maddison and Sana Nakata, Julia Hurst, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland.
• Strakosch, E; Lahn, J; and Sullivan, P 2024 Australian Indigenous Policy at the Intersection of Bureaucracy, Colonialism, Neoliberalism and Race, in Lahn, J; Strakosch, E; and Sullivan, P (eds) Bureaucratic Occupation: Government and First Nations Peoples, in series Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World, editors Sarah Maddison and Sana Nakata, Julia Hurst, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland
• Sullivan, P. 2023 Post-Script in Sullivan, P., Thorburn, K., Golson, K., Hunt, J. & Lahn, J. 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. Nulungu Research Institute, Broome:109-154
• Sullivan, P. 2023 Introduction in Sullivan, P., Thorburn, K., Golson, K., Hunt, J. & Lahn, J. 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. Nulungu Research Institute, Broome:1-11.
• Sullivan, P. 2018 The Tyranny of Neoliberal Public Management and the Challenge for Aboriginal Organisations, in Howard-Wagner, D., Bargh, M., and Altamirano-Jiminez, I, (eds) The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights, CAEPR Monograph No 40, Australian National University Press, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 2013 The Ord River Stage 2 Agreement and Miriuwung Gajerrong Native Title Corporations, in Bauman, T., Strelein, L., and Weir, J. (eds) Living With Native Title: the Experiences of Registered Native Title Corporations, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra: 181-208.
• Sullivan, P. and Boxer, H. Bujiman, W. and Moor D. 2012 The Kalpurtu Water Cycle: Bringing Life to the Desert of the South West Kimberley in Weir, J (ed) Culture, Native Title and Ecology, ANU E Press, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 2012 Indigenous Governance: The Harvard Project, Australian Aboriginal Organizations and Cultural Subsidiarity, in Prasad, A. (ed) Against the Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies, Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen.
• Sullivan, P. and Oliver, K. 2007 ‘Governance Indigenous and non-Indigenous as a Social Determinant of Aboriginal Health’, in Ian Anderson, Fran Baum and Michael Bentley (eds) Beyond Bandaids: Exploring the Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Darwin, 2007:181-190.
• Sullivan, P. 2006 Sustainable Employment in the Hybrid Economies of Dispersed Aboriginal Settlements, in Sue Hayes (ed) Final Report on Kimberley Region Consultations, Proceedings of a Workshop, Australian Conservation Foundation.
• Sullivan, P. 1999 ‘Claims, Regions Agreements - the Kimberley’ Edmunds, M. (ed) Regional Agreements: Key Issues in Australia Volume II Case Studies, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1997 ‘Dealing With Native Title Conflicts by Recognising Aboriginal Authority Systems’ in Finlayson J. & D. Smith, (eds) Fighting Over Country: anthropological perspectives, Research Monograph no:12, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1996 ‘All Things to All People: ATSIC and Australia’s International Obligation to Uphold Indigenous Self-Determination’ in Sullivan, P. (ed) Shooting the Banker - essays on ATSIC and self-determination, North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, Darwin.
• Sullivan, P. 1995 ‘Problems of Mediation in the National Native Title Tribunal’ in Fingleton, J. and J. Finlayson (eds) Anthropology in the Native Title Era, Native Titles Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1994 ‘A Regional Agreement in the Kimberley’ in Proof and Management of Native Title, Native Titles Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1985 ‘A Critical Appraisal of Historians of Malaya - the Theory of Society Implicit in their Work’ in Higgott, R. and R. Robson (eds) Southeast Asia: Essays in the Political Economy of Structural Change, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, pp.65-92.

• Sullivan, P. 2013 ‘Disenchantment, Normalisation and Public Value: Taking the Long View in Australian Indigenous Affairs’, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14 (4):353-369.
• Sullivan, P. 2012 ‘The Personality of Public Documents: Normalising Aboriginal Risk’, Journal of Organisational Ethnography 1 (1):52-61.
• Sullivan, P. 2009 ‘L`avenir des services publics aborigènes australiens au-delà de l`assimilation ou de l`autodétermination’ Télescope 15(3):75-97 (Ecole National d’Administration Publique, Quebec).
• Sullivan, P. 2009 ‘Reciprocal Accountability: Assessing the Accountability Environment in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Policy’, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 22 (1):57-71 [Emerald Publishing Group Outstanding Paper Award 2010]
• Sullivan, P. 2008 ‘Bureaucratic Process as Morris Dance: an Ethnographic Approach to the Culture of Bureaucracy in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Administration’, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 4 (2/3):127-141.
• Sullivan, P. 2007 ‘Strange Bedfellows:Whole-of-Government and Shared Responsibility Agreements, the Implications for Regional Governance’, Ngiya: Talk the Law, Journal of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney, 1:53-71.
• Sullivan, P. 2006 ‘Introduction: Culture Without Cultures – the Culture Effect’ in Sullivan, P. and Bauman, T. (eds) Delimiting Cultures: Conceptual and Spatial Boundaries, The Australian Journal of Anthropology Special Issue 18, v17 (3):253-264.
• Sullivan, P. 2005 ‘In Search of the Intercultural, In Search of the Culture’ in Hinkson, M. and B. Smith (eds) Figuring the Intercultural in Aboriginal Australia, Oceania 75 (3):183-194.
• Toussaint, S., Sullivan, P., Yu, S. 2005 ‘Water Ways in Aboriginal Australia: an Interconnected Analysis’, Anthropological Forum, March 2005.
• Sullivan, P. 1998 ‘Saltwater, Freshwater and Yawuru Social Organisation’ in Peterson, N. and B. Rigsby, (eds) Customary Marine Tenure, Oceania Monograph 48, University of Sydney, Sydney, pp. 96-108.
• Sullivan, P. 1998 ‘Orang Asli et Malais: equite et titre aborigene en Malaysia’ Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec, 28 (1):59-69 (translated by Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhof).
• Sullivan, P. 1997 ‘From Land Rights to Political Rights: hunter-gatherer politics and the contemporary Australian state’ Tsantsa, Journal of the Swiss Society of Ethnology, pp. 9-27.
• Sullivan, P. 1996 ‘From Land Rights to the Rights of the People’ Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 3 (85).
• Sullivan, P. 1986 ‘The Generation of Cultural Trauma: What Are Anthropologists For ?’,Australian Aboriginal Studies, Journal of the Institute of Aboriginal Studies), 1:13-23.

• 2000  ‘Reinventing Post-Colonial Conflicts: The Identification of Regional Aboriginal Land Groups for Holding Native Title’ Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Public Policy Session, Perth September 21-23.
• 2002 ‘Don’t Educate the Judge: Court Experts and Court Expertise in the Social Disciplines’, AIATSIS Native Title Conference, Geraldton, September 3rd – 5th.
• 2002 ‘Tropes of Intersection’ Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Canberra, October 3rd-5th.
• 2003 ‘Following a Native Title Determination – Tracks in the Landscape of Community Governance’, AIATSIS Native Title Conference, Alice Springs, June 3rd – 5th.
• 2003 ‘Culture Without Cultures’ Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Sydney, October 1st – 3rd.
• 2004 ‘Culture and Conflict’ New Directions in the Humanities Conference, Prato, Italy, July 20th – 23rd.
• 2004 ‘Minority Rights Scepticism and Co-integrationist Approaches to Space Sharing,’ AIATSIS Biennial conference Sharing the Space, Canberra November 22nd – 25th.
• 2004 ‘Traditional Ownership and Communal Rights in Cultural Heritage – the Marginalisation of Alternate Traditions’, AIATSIS Biennial conference  Sharing the Space, Canberra November 22nd – 25th.
• 2005 ‘Indigenising Post-Colonial Governance: The Harvard Project on Native American Economic Development and its Relevance to Aboriginal Political Life in Australia’. International Critical Management Studies (CMS4) Conference, post-colonial stream, July 2005, University of Cambridge, UK
• 2006 Softwares of Modernity: Accountability and the Culture of Bureaucracy in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Administration, Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences, University of Liverpool, September 13th & 14th.
• 2007 Towards Continual Reciprocal Accountability: Assessing the Accountability Environment in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Administration, 5th International Critical Management Studies Conference (post-colonial stream), Manchester, July 11th – 13th.
• 2007 The Inconsistent State: Managerialism and its Consequences for Engagement with Australian Indigenous Peoples, plenary panel Transforming States, Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Canberra October 30th.
• 2007 Changing Roles and Prospects for Aboriginal Community Sector Organisations, paper in the Public Policy Stream, AIATSIS Conference Forty Years On: Political transformation and Sustainability Since the Referendum and into the Future, Canberra November 7th.
• 2008 ‘Politics and Policy: Visions of Indigenous Progress in the Howard Years’  inaugural paper in the AIATSIS seminar series Indigenous Public Policy; Responses From the Ground.
• 2008 ‘Bureaucratic Process as Morris Dance: an Ethnographic Approach to the Culture of Bureaucracy in Australian Aboriginal Affairs Administration’, The Value of Ethnography in Social and Management Science Teaching and Research, University of Liverpool Management School September 3rd to 5th.
• 2008 ‘Saltwater, Freshwater and the Birth of a Nation’, Ownership and Appropriation, joint annual conference of the ASA(UK), ASAANZ and AAS, University of Auckland, December 8th to 12th.
• 2009 ‘Beyond Black and White – a Framework for Overcoming Strategic Threats in Remote Australia’, 6th International Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Warwick (UK), July 13th – 15th.
• 2009 ‘Anthropology and Organisation Studies’, Keynote Address, 4th Annual Ethnography Symposium, University of Liverpool School of Management (UK), August 24th – 25th.
• 2009 ‘Who Are You Calling Half-Caste? Aspects of Classification, Performance and Identity in Northern Towns’, AIATSIS Biennial Conference Perspectives on Urban Life: Connections and Reconnections, Canberra Sept 29th – Oct 1st.
• 2010 ‘COAG, Normalisation, Land Tenure and the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing’, conference paper, People Place Power: the Native Title Conference, Canberra June 1st to 3rd.
• 2010 ‘Wrong Way Go Back: a New Approach to Normalisation in Aboriginal Affairs Policy’, paper presented at the National Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Conference, University of NSW, November 18th and 19th .
• 2011 ‘Third Sector Aboriginal Organisations in Australia and the New Wave of Normalisation’, paper delivered to stream  ‘Shaping the Spaces Between State and Market: Critical Perspectives on the ‘Third Sector’,  7th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Naples, Italy, July 11th to 13th
• 2013 ‘Belonging Together Across the Divide’ Annual Reconciliation Week presentation to the Canberra diplomatic corps, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra May 29th.
• 2017 Conference stream (13 international papers) ‘Mending the splintering of the soul: new management for new publics in settler-colonial, post-colonial, and post-industrial organisations’, 10th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Liverpool (UK), 3rd – 5th July.
• 2017 ‘Stealthy Totalitarianism: Challenging the Creeping Bureaucratization of Social and Cultural Diversity’, 10th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Liverpool (UK), 3rd – 5th July.

• "Patrick Sullivan explores the development of Australian Aboriginal policy", Anthroprospective, 17th February 2023
• ‘Government all over us like a rash’: the broken service delivery system in remote Aboriginal communities https://theconversation.com/government-all-over-us-like-a-rash-the-broken-service-delivery-system-in-remote-aboriginal-communities-212858

Winner of the ‘Outstanding Paper’ Award 2010 International Journal of Public Sector Management.

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Works in Process of Publication

• Strakosch, E; Lahn, J; and Sullivan, P (eds) (forthcoming) (2023), Bureaucratic Occupation: Government and First Nations Peoples in Australia, in process of copy editing, to be submitted to ANU Press for publication in 2021.
• Sullivan, P (forthcoming) (2023), Mending Bureaucracy's Splintered Soul: Cultural Subsidiarity for Indigenous Organisations, in Strakosch, E; Lahn, J; and Sullivan, P (eds) Bureaucratic Occupation: Government and First Nations Peoples in Australia, in process of copy editing, to be submitted to ANU Press for publication in 2021.
• Sullivan, P (forthcoming) (2023), Belonging in the Country: the Mythic Landscape of Australian Monoculturalism, in Perley, Bernard, C (ed) Cartographies of Erasure, University of New Brunswick Press (reviewing and post-review amendments complete, in preparation for publication late 2021).
• Sullivan, P (forthcoming) (2023), From Self-Determination to Normalistion: Deficit Discourse Against Aboriginal Diversity, in Fogarty, W., Fforde, C., & Bulloch, H. (Eds.). Deficit discourse and changing conversations: Indigenous education in Australia (CAEPR Research Monograph). Australian National University Press.
• Sullivan, P (ed) (forthcoming) (2023), Voices from the Front Line: community leaders, government managers and charity workers talk about what’s wrong in Aboriginal development and what they’re doing to fix it, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia (substantially complete. Due to submit to Nulungu for publication in 2021).

Monographs

• Thorpe, A., Arabena, K., Sullivan, P., Silburn, K., & Rowley, K., 2016, Engaging First Peoples: A Review of Government Engagement Methods for Developing Health Policy, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne.
• Sullivan, P. 2015 A Reciprocal Relationship: Accountability for Public Value in the Aboriginal Community Sector, The Lowitja Institute, Melbourne.
• Sullivan, P. 2011 The Policy Goal of Normalisation, the National Indigenous Reform Agreement and Indigenous National Partnership Agreements, Working Paper 76, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, Alice Springs.
• Sullivan, P. 2010 The Aboriginal Community Sector and the Effective Delivery of Services: Acknowledging the Role of Indigenous Sector Organisations, Working Paper 73, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, Alice Springs.
• Sullivan, P. 2010 Government Processes and the Effective Delivery of Services: the Ngaanyatjarra Council and its Regional Partnership Agreement, Working Paper 71, Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre, Alice Springs.
• Dwyer, J., O’Donnell, K., Lavoie, J., Marlina, U., Sullivan, P. 2009. The Overburden Report: Contracting for Indigenous Health Services, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Darwin.
• Sullivan, P. 2009 Policy Change and the Indigenous Land Corporation, AIATSIS Research Programme Discussion Paper 25, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Dodson, Goodwin, Sullivan, Veth, Weinman, 2008. Scoping a National Representative Body, Discussion Paper, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Unit, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney.
• Sullivan, P. 2006 Indigenous Governance: the Harvard Project on Native American Economic Development and Appropriate Principles of Governance for Aboriginal Australia, Research Programme Discussion Paper No:17, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1997 ‘Regional Agreements in Australia: an overview paper’ Land, Rights, Law: Issues of Native Title, Issues Paper No:17, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
• Sullivan, P. 1997 A Sacred Land, A Sovereign People, an Aboriginal Corporation - Prescribed Bodies and the Native Title Act,  Report Series No: 3, North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, Darwin.
• Sullivan, P. 1995 Beyond Native Title: Multiple Land Use Agreements and Aboriginal Governance in the Kimberley, Discussion Paper no:89, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1994 ‘Exclusion under S26(3) and (4) of the Native Title Act from the Right to Negotiate’, Land, Rights, Law: Issues of Native Title, Issues Paper No:6, Native Title Research Unit, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
• Sullivan, P. 1982 Social Relations of Dependence in a Malay State: 19th Century Perak, Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Monograph No: 10, Kuala Lumpur.