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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.

 

New Inquiry — Remote Community Stores in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Communities 2009
Sara HudsonJuly 29, 2009

Communities in the Northern Territory and in other native title areas need to have private...

Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage 2009
Helen HughesJuly 8, 2009

The Commonwealth government hoped for favourable coverage from the release of the Productivity Commission’s Overcoming...

CDEP: Help or Hindrance?
July 8, 2009

Established in the 1970s as a transition to work program, the Community Development Employment Projects...

Statistics obscure the truth
Sara HudsonJuly 7, 2009The Australian

The media has been quick to sensationalise the statistics in the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report...

Permits will throttle growth towns
Sara HudsonJune 18, 2009The Australian

The Northern Territory government's tourism department recently mounted an advertising campaign encouraging people to ‘make...

Who are Indigenous Australians?
Helen HughesJune 13, 2009NZCPR

In 1967 Australians overwhelmingly supported a referendum that altered the Australian constitution in regard to...

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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