• 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.

 

South Australia’s homelands have only a small proportion of Australia’s 500,000 Aborigines…
Helen HughesJune 2, 2007The Adelaide Advertiser

South Australian "homelands" have only a very small proportion of Australia's 500,000 Aborigines, but they...

Our state of disgrace
Helen HughesMay 31, 2007The Courier Mail

Queensland, with a quarter of Australia's Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, has some of their...

An edited extract from Lands of Shame
Helen HughesMay 26, 2007The Weekend Enquirer

After the passage of the 1967 referendum, and with the beginning of the transfer of...

Helen Hughes writes on Lands of Shame
Helen HughesMay 26, 2007The Australian Financial Review

The pernicious permit system that censors reporting about remote ‘homelands’ has been sufficiently broken into...

An extract from Lands of Shame
Helen HughesMay 22, 2007The Canberra Times

About a third of Australia's 500,000 Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders work in mainstream jobs,...

State must focus on Aboriginal schooling
Kirsten StorryMay 11, 2007The West Australian

When the nation’s education ministers met in Darwin last month, nit-picking over the national literacy...

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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