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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 Indigenous Commissioner is sole good news in PM’s Closing the Gap Speech
Sara HudsonFebruary 14, 2017MEDIA RELEASE

As expected, the Prime Minister’s Closing the Gap report findings were bleak, Centre for Independent...

Rudd endorses ‘Stolen Generation’ double standard
Jeremy SammutFebruary 14, 2017MEDIA RELEASE

Kevin Rudd’s description of the removal of at-risk indigenous children from their families being “a...

Moving Australia Day won’t stop protestors
Sara HudsonFebruary 3, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

Predictably, Australia Day saw protest marches held around the country with people proclaiming ‘Invasion Day’...

Damming report card on the Indigenous Advancement Strategy by ANAO
Sara HudsonFebruary 3, 2017

“The Australian National Audit Office’s report on the Indigenous Advancement Strategy proves that the Strategy...

Federal government’s $40 million for evaluation a ‘mea culpa’
Sara HudsonFebruary 3, 2017

“The Federal government’s announcement today of $10 million a year over four years to strengthen...

Ending the Violence in Indigenous Communities
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Marcia Langton, Josephine CashmanDecember 5, 2016OP152

Urgent action is need to address the epidemic of violence in Indigenous communities. Aboriginal women...

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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