• Indigenous

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.

 

Culture to blame for much of indigenous family violence
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJanuary 22, 2020The Australian

With 23 per cent of partner homicide victims in Australia being ­indigenous, it is not...

Changing the date of Australia Day won’t change our reality
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJanuary 15, 2020The Daily Telegraph

Australia Day is just around the corner but mercifully we have not yet been bombarded...

Uluru spotlights prosperity question
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceNovember 1, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Progressives have been celebrating the closure of the Uluru climb as a triumph for Indigenous...

Politics of the ‘Voice’
Jeremy SammutAugust 30, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The biggest obstacle facing the campaign for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition remains the lack of detail...

Real solutions for Indigenous problems
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceAugust 16, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

The vast majority of Australians — including many Australians of Aboriginal descent — know very...

Power, inclusion and exclusion; my concerns about a ‘Voice’
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJuly 20, 2019NITV SBS Online

The Uluru Statement of the Heart proposes a ‘Voice’ representing Indigenous Australians be enshrined within...

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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