Professor John Taylor
BA (Hons), University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
PhD (Geography), University of Liverpool
Emeritus Professor
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Policy 160501
- Public Policy 160510
- Population Trends And Policies 160305
- Studies Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Society 169902
- Urban And Regional Studies (Excl. Planning) 160404
- Migration 160303
- Demography 1603
- Human Geography 1604
- Social And Cultural Geography 160403
- Sociology 1608
Research interests
In Australia, John's research interests have revolved around the measurement of demographic change among Indigenous peoples and assessment of their economic status at varying scales of analysis from the local to the regional and national. Increasingly, this also incorporates international comparison with North America and New Zealand, particularly in terms of demographic analysis. A basic tenet of his research is the need to establish key parameters of population change as the basis for evaluating policy impacts in areas such as employment, housing, education and health. He has published widely on these issues and is the author of numerous consultancy reports for government, industry and Indigenous organisations.
Biography
John Taylor is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Policy Associate of the Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium (International) based at the University of Western Ontario. He is a population geographer specialising in the demography of indigenous peoples and co-editor (with Tahu Kukutai) of Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda, ANU Press 2016
Publications
- Kukutai, T & Taylor, J 2016, 'Data sovereignty for indigenous peoples: current practice and future needs', in Tahu Kukutai, John Taylor (ed.), Indigenous data sovereignty: toward an agenda, ANU Press, Australia, pp. 1-22.
- Taylor, J, Doran, B, Parriman, M et al 2014, 'Statistics for Community Governance: The Yawuru Indigenous Population Survey, Western Australia', International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1-31.
- Biddle, N, Taylor, J & Yap, M 2014, 'Closing Which Gap? Demographic and Geographic Dilemmas for Indigenous Policy in Australia', in Frank Trovato and Anatole Romaniuk (ed.), Aboriginal populations: social, demographic, and epidemiological perspectives, The University of Alberta Press, Alberta, Canada, pp. 415-440.
- Taylor, J 2014, 'Difference or equality? Settlement dilemmas on the Indigenous estate', in Dr Rae Dufty-Jones, Professor John Connell (ed.), Rural change in Australia: population, economy, environment, Ashgate Publishing Limited, England, pp. 103-125.
- Markham, F, Bath, J, Taylor, J et al 2013, New directions in Indigenous service population estimation.
- Taylor, J 2013, 'Indigenous urbanization in Australia: Patterns and Processes of Ethnogenesis', in E. Peters and C. Andersen (ed.), Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation, UBC Press, Vancouver, pp. 237-255.
- Taylor, J 2013, 'Data for better Indigenous Policy Evaluation: achievements, constraints and opportunities', Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation - Roundtable Proceedings, 22-23 October 2012., ed. Australian Government Productivity Commission, Australian Government Productivity Commission, http://www.pc.gov.au/research/conference-proceedings/better-indigenous-policiesgs, pp. 119-130.
- Taylor, J & Westbury, N 2012, Population change in Port Augusta: Challenges and implications for the COAG Urban and Regional Strategy.
- Taylor, J & Bell, M 2012, 'Towards comparative measures of circulation: Insights from Indigenous Australia', Population Space and Place, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 567-578.
- Taylor, J 2012, 'Measuring indigenous outcomes from mining agreements in Australia: The role of applied demography', in M. Langton and J. Longbottom (ed.), Community Futures, Legal Architecture: Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 59-75.
- Taylor, J & Bell, M 2012, 'Mobile people, mobile measures: Limitations and opportunities for mobility analysis', in B. Hunter and N. Biddle (ed.), Survey Analysis for Indigenous Policy in Australia: Social Science Perspectives, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 13-34.
- Kukutai, T & Taylor, J 2012, 'Postcolonial profiling of indigenous populations: Limitations and responses in Australia and New Zealand', Espace, Populations, Societes/Space Populations Societies, no. 1, pp. 13-26.
- Taylor, J, Doran, B, Parriman, M et al 2012, Statistics for community governance: The Yawuru Indigenous population survey of Broome.
- Biddle, N & Taylor, J 2012, 'Demographic consequences of the "Closing the Gap" Indigenous policy in Australia', Population Research and Policy Review, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 571-585.
- Taylor, J, Gray, M, Hunter, B, Yap, M & Lahn, J, 2012, 'Higher education and the growth of Indigenous participation in professional and managerial occupations', CAEPR Working Papers, vol. 83/2012.
- Taylor, J 2011, 'Postcolonial Transformation of the Australian Indigenous Population', Geographical Research, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 286-300.
- Taylor, J 2011, 'Indigenous mobility and school attendance in remote Australia: Cause or effect?', International Journal of Educational Research, vol. Online 10 December 2011, p. 10.
- Taylor, J 2011, 'Beyond the Pale: Measures of Mobility in Postcolonial Australia', Law Text Culture, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 72-99.
- Taylor, J 2011, 'Indigenous population projects in mining regions: dividend or dependency?', ATNS Working Paper Series (Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements), vol. 2/2011, p. 34.
- Biddle, N & Taylor, J 2009, 'Indigenous Population Projections, 2006-31: Planning For Growth', CAEPR, vol. 56.
- Biddle, N, Taylor, J & Yap, M 2008, 'Indigenous participation in regional labour markets, 2001-06', CAEPR Discussion Paper, vol. 288.
- Taylor, J & Biddle, N 2008, 'Locations of Indigenous population change: What can we say?', CAEPR, vol. 43.
- Biddle, N & Taylor, J 2008, 'A regional analysis of Indigenous participation in the Western Australian labour market', CAEPR, vol. 45.
- Taylor, J & Biddle, N 2004, 'Indigenous people in the Murray-Darling Basin: A statistical profile', CAEPR Discussion Paper, vol. 264, pp. vi+35.
- Taylor, J & Biddle, N 2010, 'Estimating the accuracy of geographic variation in Indigenous population counts', Australian Geographer, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 469-484.
- Taylor, J 2009, 'Social engineering and Indigenous settlement: Policy and demography in remote Australia', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 1, pp. 4-15.
- Taylor, J 2009, 'Indigenous demography and public policy in Australia: Population or peoples?', Journal of Population Research, vol. 26, pp. 115-130.
- Taylor, J 2009, 'Data mining: Indigenous peoples, applied demography and the resource extraction industry', in J. Altman and D. Martin (ed.), Power, Culture, Economy: Indigenous Australians and Mining, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 51-71.
- Biddle, N, Taylor, J & Yap, M 2009, 'Are the gaps closing? - Regional trends and forecasts of Indigenous employment', Australian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 263-280.
- Brown, D, Taylor, J & Bell, M 2008, 'The Demography of Desert Australia', The Rangeland Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 29-43.
- Taylor, J 2008, 'Counting the cost: Stanner and the Port Keats/Wadeye population', in M. Hinkson and J. Beckett (ed.), An Appreciation of Difference: W.E.H. Stanner and Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp. 217-230.
- Taylor, J 2007, 'Demography is destiny, except in the Northern Territory', in J. Altman and M. Hinkson (ed.), Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia, Arena Printing and Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, pp. 173-184.
- Taylor, J 2007, 'Indigenous Peoples and Indicators of Well-being: Australian perspectives on United Nations Global Frameworks', Social Indicators Research, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 111-126.
- Morphy, F, Sanders, W & Taylor, J 2007, 'Accommodating agency and contingency: Towards an extended strategy for engagement', in F. Morphy (ed.), Agency, Contingency and Census Process: Observations of the 2006 Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in Remote Aboriginal Australia, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 111-24.
- Taylor, J 2007, 'Whose census? Institutional constraints on the 2006 enumeration at Wadeye and its outstations', in F. Morphy (ed.), Agency, Contingency and Census Process: Observations of the 2006 Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in Remote Aboriginal Australia, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 53-70.
- Morphy, F, Sanders, W & Taylor, J 2007, 'Producing powerful numbers', in F. Morphy (ed.), Agency, Contingency and Census Process: Observations of the 2006 Indigenous Enumeration Strategy in Remote Aboriginal Australia, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-8.
- Taylor, J 2006, 'The impact of Australian policy regimes on Indigenous population movement: Evidence from the 2001 Census', Aboriginal Policy Research Conference 2006, ed. J.P. White, S. Wingert, D. Beavon and P. Maxim, Thompson Educational Publishing Inc, Toronto, Canada, pp. 281-300.
- Altman, J & Taylor, J 2006, 'Statistical needs in Indigenous affairs: The role of the 2002 NATSISS', Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing Recent Evidence, ed. B.H. Hunter, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 11-21.
- Taylor, J & Kinfu, Y 2006, 'Differentials and determinants of Indigenous population mobility', Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing Recent Evidence, ed. B.H. Hunter, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 57-67.
- Taylor, J & Biddle, N 2006, 'An evidence based analysis of Indigenous population and diversity', Journal of Indigenous Policy, vol. na, no. 5, pp. 16-23.
- Taylor, J 2006, Indicators of well-being: Implications for Indigenous governance, Community Governance Newsletter, 2 (2).
- Kinfu, Y & Taylor, J 2005, 'On the components of Indigenous population change', Australian Geographer, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 233-255.
- Taylor, J 2005, 'The Indigenous labour supply and regional industry', Aborigines, Culture and Economy: The Past, Present, and Future of Rural and Remote Indigenous Lives, ed. D. Austin-Broos and G. Macdonald, University of Sydney Press, Sydney Australia, pp. 109-120.
- Taylor, J & Biddle, N 2005, 'An evidence based analysis of Indigenous population and diversity', National Reconciliation Planning Workshop, Reconciliation Australia, Canberra, pp. 11-16.
- Taylor, J 2005, 'Population and patterns of residence', in Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy (ed.), Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, Pan Macmillan Publishers Australia, Sydney, Australia, pp. 66-77.
- Taylor, J & Scambary, B 2005, Indigenous People and the Pilbara Mining Boom: A Baseline for Regional Participation, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Taylor, J & Bell, M 2004, 'Continuity and change in Indigenous Australian population mobility', in John Taylor and Martin Bell (ed.), Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 13-43.
- Taylor, J & Bell, M 2004, 'Conclusion: emerging research themes', in John Taylor and Martin Bell (ed.), Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 262-267.
- Hunter, B & Taylor, J 2004, 'Indigenous employment forecasts: Implications for reconciliation', Agenda: a journal of policy analysis and reform, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 179-92.
- Taylor, J & Bell, M 2004, Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London.
- Taylor, J & Bell, M 2004, 'Introduction: New World demography', in John Taylor and Martin Bell (ed.), Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 1-10.
- Taylor, J 2004, Aboriginal Population Profiles for Development Planning in the Northern East Kimberley, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Taylor, J 2004, Social Indicators for Aboriginal Governance: Insights from the Thamarrurr Region, Northern Territory, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Gray, M, Hunter, B & Taylor, J 2004, 'Health expenditure, income and health status among Indigenous and other Australians', Economics and Indigenous Australian Health, ed. Michael Otim, Ian Anderson, Ian Scott, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 42-62.
- Taylor, J 2003, 'Indigenous Australians: The first transformation', in Khoo, Siew-Ean & McDonald, Peter (ed.), The transformation of Australia's population: 1970-2030, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 17-40.
- Taylor, J 2003, 'Population futures in the Australian desert, 2001-16', Australian Geographer, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 355-70.
- Peterson, N & Taylor, J 2003, 'The modernising of the Indigenous domestic moral economy: Kinship, accumulation and household composition', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 4, no. 1&2, pp. 105-122.
- Hunter, B & Taylor, J 2002, 'An overview of the costs of Indigenous unemployment', in Peter Saunders and Richard Taylor (ed.), The Price of Prosperity: The Economic and Social Costs of Unemployment, UNSW Press, Sydney, NSW, pp. 109-133.
- Ross, K & Taylor, J 2002, 'Improving life expectancy and health status: A comparison of Indigenous Australians and New Zealand Maori', Journal of Population Research, vol. Special issue, no. September, pp. 219-238.
- Gray, M, Hunter, B & Taylor, J 2002, Health Expenditure, Income and Health Status Among Indigenous and Other Australians, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Martin, D, Morphy, F, Sanders, W et al 2002, Making Sense of the Census: Observations of the 2001 Enumeration in Remote Aboriginal Australia, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
- Taylor, J 2002, 'Indigenous enumeration in the late twentieth century: Emerging issues for population analysis', in G. Briscoe and L. Smith (ed.), The Aboriginal Population Revisited: 70,000 Years to the Present, Aboriginal History Inc, Canberra Australia, pp. 93-108.
- Peterson, N & Taylor, J 2002, 'Aboriginal intermarriage and economic status in western New South Wales', People and Place, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 11-16.
- Taylor, J & Hunter, B 2001, 'Demographic challenges to the future of CDEP', The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme: Autonomy, Dependence, Self Determination and Mutual Obligation, ed. F. Morphy and W. Sanders, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 95-107.
- Hunter, B & Taylor, J 2001, 'Indigenous jobs growth and unemployment, 1996-2006: The impact of CDEP', Australian Journal of Labour Economics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 65-76.
- Taylor, J 2001, 'Aboriginal urbanisation', in James Jupp (ed.), The Australian People: An encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Australia, pp. 145-148pp.
- Hunter, B & Taylor, J 2001, 'The reliability of Indigenous employment estimates', Agenda: a journal of policy analysis and reform, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 113-128.
- Sanders, W, Taylor, J & Ross, K 2000, 'Participation and representation in ATSIC elections: A ten-year perspective', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 493-513.
