• 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.

 

Warts-and-all evaluation may beat ‘crabs in a bucket’ mindset
Sara HudsonApril 15, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

An evaluation report released this week provides some much-needed evidence on the effectiveness of Jawun....

MEDIA RELEASE: Serious crimes deserve mandatory sentences
Sara HudsonApril 15, 2016

While the Law Council’s call to abolish mandatory sentencing for alcohol related crime has some...

MEDIA RELEASE: Indigenous incarceration rates have not risen in the past four years
Sara HudsonApril 14, 2016

Despite Labor Senator, Pat Dodson slamming rising incarceration rates, the percentage of Indigenous people in...

Reduce Indigenous incarceration rates? Not so fast
Sara HudsonApril 14, 2016Daily Telegraph Rendezview

The Australian Bar Association is right in stating that the over-representation of Aboriginal people in...

If an alarm goes off and no one hears it, did it make a sound?
Sara HudsonApril 8, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

The murder of remote area nurse, Gayle Woodford, has triggered an outcry of public concern....

MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Bar Association is right: high Indigenous incarceration rate is due to disadvantage not racism
Sara HudsonApril 8, 2016

The Australian Bar Association’s (ABA) assessment that the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the criminal...

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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