Biography
Dr. Michael Murphy, MA (Western) PhD (McGill).
Michael is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Indigenous State Relations.
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May 20, 2011
Four United Nations entities today launched a new initiative to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples, aiming to strengthen their institutions and ability to fully participate in governance and policy processes at the local and national levels.
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May 19, 2011
AN audit into the NSW government's indigenous policy has found it inefficient and lacking accountability for the $2.65 billion spent on Aboriginal affairs each year.
The audit of the Two Ways Together plan introduced by the former Labor government in 2003 -- a policy that costs about $40 million a year in administration alone -- found a distinct lack of accountability among government agencies managing programs for an estimated 160,000 Aboriginal people in the state.
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Michael's research interests include citizenship and democratic theory, indigenous rights and governance, multiculturalism, and the political philosophy of nationalism and self-determination.
Michael is co-author (with Helena Catt) of (Sub-State Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Design (Routledge 2002), and (with Siobhan Harty) of In Defense of Multinational Citizenship (UWP 2005; Spanish Translation, 451 Editores 2008). He is also the editor of Re-Configuring Aboriginal-State Relations. Canada: The State of the Federation 2003 (McGill-Queen’s 2005), and Quebec and Canada in the New Century: New Dynamics, New Opportunities Canada: The State of the Federation 2005 (McGill-Queen’s 2007). Michael is currently writing a critical introduction to multiculturalism, to be published as part of the Routledge Contemporary Political Philosophy series, and continues to work on a longer-term comparative project on democracy, reconciliation and indigenous self-determination.
