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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.

 

Indigenous incarceration rates are a problem of poverty
Sara HudsonDecember 10, 2015Sydney Morning Herald

The government is wrong to delay responding to the Empowered Communities report, as their model...

Employment, not justice reinvestment, is the ‘panacea’ for high Indigenous incarceration rate
Sara HudsonDecember 4, 2015Online Opinion

The Australian Medical Association’s Report Card on Indigenous Health correctly links particular health issues —...

The last bastion of Aboriginal separatism
Jeremy SammutNovember 27, 2015Quadrant

A New Stolen Generation? Writing in The Guardian in March 2014, the Australian filmmaker and...

Federal government hypocrisy with Indigenous Advancement Strategy
Sara HudsonNovember 20, 2015Ideas@TheCentre

At a Sydney forum on the Indigenous Advancement Strategy guidelines, it was clear the actions...

Should government support Indigenous businesses or get out of their way?
Sara HudsonNovember 13, 2015Ideas@TheCentre

We generally espouse the benefits of limited government. However, there are some occasions when more...

We should work with Indigenous businesses, not against them
Sara HudsonNovember 13, 2015ABC The Drum

According to a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald, a number of Indigenous businesses...

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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