Is investment in Indigenous land and sea management going to the right places to provide multiple co-benefits?

Figures & data

Table 1. Total and annual investment and annual change in investment (+/-) in Indigenous land and sea management in Australia 2002–12, by investor, showing two distinct time periods i) pre 2007–08 and ii) 2007–08 onwards.

		INVESTOR
	Financial Year	Australian Government Programmes			Indigenous Land Corporation			Philanthropic			*Other			Annual FY Total $	Total annual $ +/-	%
		Annual $	Annual +/-	%	Annual $	Annual +/-	%	Annual $	Annual +/-	%	Annual $	Annual +/-	%
Pre 2007–08	2002–03	2,264,144			626,137									2,890,281
	2003–04	3,285,068	1,020,924	31	1,067,932	441,795	41							4,353,000	1,462,719	34
	2004–05	3,287,826	2,758	0.1	2,607,221	1,539,289	59				200,000	200,000		6,095,047	1,742,047	29
	2005–06	2,385,145	−902,681	−38	3,829,626	1,222,404	32				541,625	341,625	63	6,756,396	661,348	10
	2006–07	6,725,689	4,340,544	65	6,704,749	2,875,124	43				223,290	−318,335	−143	13,653,728	6,897,333	51
	Sub-total $	17,947,872	6,725,689		14,835,666	6,704,749					964,915	223,290		33,748,453	13,653,728
	%	53			44						3
Post 2006–07	2007–08	18,886,407	12,160,718	64	16,099,863	9,395,113	58	3,133,775	3,133,775		280,000	56,710	20	38,400,045	24,746,317	51
	2008–09	25,333,610	7,385,738	29	16,442,280	342,417	2	15,841,283	12,707,508	80	564,300	284,300	50	58,181,473	19,781,428	34
	2009–10	58,716,784	58,716,731	100	15,619,337	−822,943	−5	21,232,082	5,390,799	25	1,515,700	951,400	63	97,083,903	38,902,430	40
	2010–11	87,916,717	69,030,310	79	16,674,343	1,055,006	6	12,480,193	−8,751,889	−70	1,316,220	−199,480	−15	118,387,474	21,303,571	18
	2011–12	90,853,309	65,519,699	72	15,117,070	−1,557,274	−10	9,369,434	−3,110,759	−33	1,714,000	397,780	23	117,053,813	−1,333,661	−1
	Sub-total $	281,706,827	212,813,196		79,952,893	8,412,320		62,056,767	9,369,434		5,390,220	1,490,710		429,106,707	103,400,084
	%	66			19						1
2002–12	Grand Total $	299,654,699	219,538,885		94,788,559	15,117,070		62,056,767	9,369,434		6,355,135	1,714,000		462,855,160	117,053,813
	%	65			20			13			1
	Average	29,965,470	21,953,888		9,478,856	1,511,707		12,411,353	1,873,887		794,392	214,250		46,285,516	10,340,008

*Other investors include: Aboriginal Benefit Account (ABA), Raising National Water Standards (RNWS), and Wild River Rangers.

Figure 1. Location of summed ILSM projects funded over ABS Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD).

Figure 2. Location of summed ILSM projects funded over ABS Index of Economic Resources (IER).

Figure 3. Location of summed ILSM projects funded over Australia’s 15 national biodiversity hotspots.

Figure 4. Map showing the location of summed ILSM projects funded over ABS Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA).