• 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.

 

Men of violence
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJune 23, 2017THE SPECTATOR

Almost every other Aboriginal woman I know has been subject to family violence. It is...

Co-accountability in Indigenous program evaluation and service delivery
Sara HudsonJune 9, 2017Croakey

Earlier this year, in response to damning reports about the evaluation and funding of Indigenous...

Strengthening Indigenous evaluation
Sara HudsonJune 9, 2017Ideas@TheCentre

Our research identified a plethora of small programs (particularly health and well-being programs) currently being...

Evaluating Indigenous programs: a toolkit for change
Sara HudsonJune 4, 2017RR28

The federal government recently announced it will allocate $10 million a year over four years...

Report finds only 6% of Indigenous evaluations use robust methodology
Sara HudsonJune 4, 2017MEDIA RELEASE

Indigenous program evaluations are marred by a lack of rigour, with only three of 49...

Women in custody is everyone’s business
Ms Heidi Kiekebosch-FittJune 3, 2017Koori Mail

  Shocking statistics revealing the high number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in...

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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