• 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.

 

Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities 2008
Sara HudsonMarch 20, 2008

Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities 2008. The findings...

Pretend Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Northern Territory
Helen HughesMarch 3, 2008The Canberra Times

The Northern Territory Department of Education reports that only 20% of Indigenous students in remote...

Strangers in their own land – An extract
Helen HughesFebruary 27, 2008The Australian

Two teenager girls from East Arnhem Land undergo a ten-week educational marathon in Sydney with...

Let local Indigenous communities decide who comes and goes
Sara HudsonFebruary 21, 2008The Australian

THE Rudd Government's legislation to restore the permit system for access to indigenous settlements in...

How can we move forward?
Kirsten StorryDecember 27, 2007

It should go without saying that ten year old child cannot consent to sex. Sex...

Rudd revolution must grasp basics
Jennifer Buckingham OAMDecember 17, 2007The Australian Financial Review

The central components of the Rudd education revolution include computers, trade centres, national standards, and...

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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