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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.

 

Mapping the Indigenous Program and Funding Maze
Sara HudsonAugust 23, 2016Research Report 18

There is much goodwill in Australia to improve Indigenous outcomes. However, too many programs are...

Indigenous youth suicide, the canary in the mine
Sara HudsonAugust 19, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

A recent report on Indigenous suicide found the rate of suicide among young Indigenous men...

MEDIA RELEASE: We have shied away from discussing how Indigenous culture normalises violence: Jacinta Price
August 9, 2016

There is a deep silence that envelops domestic violence in Aboriginal communities, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price...

Don Dale inquiry: silver lining and sliver of hope
Jeremy SammutAugust 5, 2016Ideas@TheCentre

The Don Dale scandal has shed multiple lights on the root causes and consequences for...

Alas, the Indigenous stereotype is tragically true
Jeremy SammutAugust 4, 2016Spectator Flat White

Bill Leak’s cartoon in The Australian has attracted predictable outrage from both Indigenous organisations and...

Failure to protect children a root cause of disadvantage
Jeremy SammutAugust 2, 2016Spectator - Flat White

The scope of the Royal Commission called in the wake of the Don Dale scandal...

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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