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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.

 

AFL Indigenous round
AFLW’s poor decision to boycott minute’s silence for Queen Elizabeth because of Indigenous Round
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 13, 2022SKY NEWS

The Australian Football League is one of Australia’s most popular, well-funded and privileged sporting codes...

domestic violence
‘Anti-racism’ makes it impossible to speak up about Aborginal domestic violence
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 7, 2022SKY NEWS

Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly is not afraid to cause a stir by...

Indigenous Australia cannot be spoken for by a single Voice
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 6, 2022THE WEST AUSTRALIAN

No other Western constitution provides for an Indigenous “Voice”. Canada’s Constitution includes a simple statement...

Voice to parliament
Do we really need an Indigenous ‘voice’ to parliament?
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOSeptember 4, 2022EPOCH TIMES

While Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his minister for Indigenous affairs frolic together with...

truth telling
The next item on the ‘truth telling’ agenda will impose even more control
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOAugust 31, 2022SKY NEWS

What’s intended to come after the Voice is equally important in this referendum debate. The...

On Liberty EP98 The Territory Gap
Salvatore Babones, Peter GregoryAugust 31, 2022On Liberty
We welcomed Peter Gregory, author of the recent CIS paper The Territory Gap: Comparing Australia's...
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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