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The CIS has publicly advocated for improving Indigenous Australians’ outcomes since 2004. Our work has spanned health, education, employment, housing, private property rights, criminal justice, and family violence and child protection reform and has had a direct impact on government thinking on Indigenous issues.

Our latest program is the Indigenous Forum whose key policy initiative is to focus on developing an entrepreneurial mindset and supporting the capability of indigenous businesses to drive economic participation in their communities.

 

Worlds Apart: Indigenous disadvantage in the context of wider Australia
Tom Switzer, Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceMarch 11, 2021

As debate rages over Australia Day, a rising star in our Indigenous community defends our...

Advancing Indigenous Education Outcomes
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, Glenn Fahey, Lorraine HammondMarch 1, 2021

Indigenous educational disadvantage has persisted despite countless initiatives, programmes, and spending from governments and communities....

Loudest voices come from the cities, not the bush
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceFebruary 5, 2021The Australian

Our political leaders don’t live in the bush, they live in cities. Heads of Aboriginal...

Dire differences
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJanuary 29, 2021IDEAS@THECENTRE

There are dire circumstances facing Indigenous Australians living in regional and very remote Australia, setting...

Worlds Apart: Remote Indigenous disadvantage in the context of wider Australia
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJanuary 25, 2021PP34

Remote and very remote Indigenous communities have become victims of a ‘wicked problem’. A combination...

Virtue signalling does nothing to make lives of Indigenous Australians safer
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJanuary 21, 2021Daily Telegraph

Right now the lives and wellbeing of all Australians depends on a unified nation, and...

Submission to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet – Consultation Paper: COAG Closing the Gap Refresh
Charles JacobsApril 30, 2018

While the targets set in 2008 were ambitious, and the task immense, the failure to...

Submission to Productivity Commission – Draft report: Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services
Michael Potter, Sara HudsonJuly 14, 2017CIS Submission

The Productivity Commission (PC) released a draft report proposing reforms to increased competition, contestability and...

Submission to the Queensland Productivity Commission on: Service Delivery in remote and discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
Sara HudsonJune 2, 2017CIS Submission

The Inquiry into service delivery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders closely aligns with the...

Submission to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet – Consultation Paper: Indigenous Business Sector Strategy
Sara Hudson, Charles JacobsMay 26, 2017CIS Submission

We believe supporting Indigenous businesses contributes to Indigenous empowerment. Unlike program delivery, which tends to...

Submission to the Parliament of NSW Standing Committee on State Development: Inquiry into economic development in Aboriginal communities
Sara HudsonFebruary 12, 2016CIS Submission

In seeking to improve Indigenous economic development outcomes it is important to recognise that high...

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia
Sara HudsonNovember 17, 2013

To address the underlying causes of Indigenous offending, we need to focus on education and...

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