How Many Separated Aboriginal Children?

Acknowledging the difficulty in arriving at an accurate estimate of the number of Aboriginal children removed from their families during the twentieth century, I argue that the greatest accuracy will flow from working with specialist scholars of small areas. Their studies, many of which already exist, draw on archival, documentary, oral and community sources. Such locally specialised knowledge is necessary to unravel official population figures and shifting definitions of Aboriginality, sometimes deliberately intended to deceive. Community-based knowledge is needed to expand upon the files of removed children, at least half of which, in Wiradjuri country, are missing or inaccessible. Lastly I consider some of the implications of the discussion in relation to a "Stolen Generations Tribunal".     

Risk and the Outsourcing of Risk Management Services: The Case of Claims Management

Outsourcing of risk management activities is a well-established practice, involving a range of services from actuarial audits to loss control training to risk financing management to claims administration services. Surprisingly, little work has been done to examine the risks associated with outsourcing risk management activities. This article examines the outsourcing of claims management services by reviewing the research on outsourcing risks and by interviewing leading practitioners. In doing so, the authors draw some provisional observations about risks and risk costs associated with outsourcing claims management services—observations that seem generalizable to all risk management outsourcing.