• 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.

 

Numbers don’t go remotely to issue
Helen HughesNovember 28, 2008The Australian

The news that the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found the 17 year gap in...

Out with the Outstations?
Sara HudsonOctober 19, 2008Sunday Territorian

After thirty years, it finally seems the Northern Territory government is acknowledging the failures of...

Leadership can make all the difference in a CDEP organisation
Sara HudsonOctober 11, 2008The Sydney Morning Herald

This week the Rudd Government announced sweeping changes to the Community Development Employment Projects program,...

Welfare stretcher at bottom of cliff
Sara HudsonOctober 8, 2008The Australian

The federal Government has announced that it is reforming the Community Development Employment Program, an...

The Northern Territory’s performance in national literacy and numeracy testing
Helen HughesSeptember 17, 2008The Australian

When we drew attention to the failures of Northern Territory schooling in April this year,...

Guest workers and the Northern Territory
Helen HughesSeptember 14, 2008The Sunday Territorian

To Australia’s embarrassment, by not tackling the problems that prevent Aborigines picking the fruit that...

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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