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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.

 

Sigh, another review
Sara HudsonOctober 7, 2011

The federal government seems preoccupied with writing discussion papers and conducting reviews but very little...

Bolt tongue tied
Adam CreightonSeptember 30, 2011

Sometimes it takes an injustice to beget justice. So it may be with Andrew Bolt’s...

Remote disadvantage even worse than reported
Helen HughesSeptember 27, 2011The Australian

Billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted on programs that mostly benefit bureaucrats IN February, the...

Dying before their time
Sara HudsonSeptember 23, 2011

In an Aboriginal settlement of a hundred or so souls, people gathered under trees to...

Missing the point with silly questions
Sara HudsonAugust 26, 2011

The Equality Rights Alliance recently released a report on 180 women’s experiences of income management in...

Degrees of difference
Sara HudsonAugust 22, 2011Online Opinion

Recently I wrote about the separate Census form used for discrete Indigenous communities suggesting that...

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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