• 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.

 

Evidence shows CDC works
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceNovember 6, 2020Ideas@theCentre

The Cashless Debit Card (CDC) has long faced opposition from those who claim that not...

Cashless in Alice
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceOctober 22, 2020Spectator

Income Management and the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) have long faced opposition from those who...

On Liberty EP17 Closing the gap
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOAugust 11, 2020On Liberty

In this webinar, Jacinta spoke with Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Chairman and Managing Director of Nyungga...

Feel-good measures will widen the gap
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJuly 30, 2020Daily Telegraph

There are glaring problems with Ken Wyatt’s Close the Gap targets. If you are going...

BLM’s inconvenient truth
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJuly 16, 2020Ideas@TheCentre

The greatest failing of the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia, and a complete contradiction...

Why drop the ball on our key indigenous targets?
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOJuly 15, 2020The Australian

The COVID-19 pandemic — and government responses to it — has halted large sections of...

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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