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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.

 

Business creation can lift Indigenous communities
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, Elizabeth HendersonJuly 7, 2021Financial Review

During the past year, with an economy under siege from COVID-19, lockdowns and border closures,...

Desert Voices | NAIDOC Week 2021
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Mark Lockyer, Theresa Napurrurla Price, Dennis Roy Kunoth, Cecilia Alfonso, Bess Nungarrayi Price, Linda Hughes, Nicole Laughton, Nicholas Williams, David Price, Jennifer HubertJuly 6, 2021

For decades, the Centre for Independent Studies has been committed to the study of indigenous...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in Senate will be a turning point for Indigenous affairs
Tom SwitzerJune 28, 2021The Australian

The term watershed is often misplaced in politics, but perhaps not so this past weekend....

Mind the Gap: Understanding the Indigenous education gap and how to close it
Glenn FaheyJune 24, 2021RR41

Indigenous education disadvantage remains among the most pressing and persistent public policy challenges in Australia....

Scaling up success in majority Indigenous schools
Glenn Fahey, Noel Pearson, Alan TudgeJune 2, 2021

One of Australia’s most pressing public-policy challenges is to overcome poor education outcomes suffered by...

Worlds Apart: Indigenous disadvantage in the context of wider Australia
Tom Switzer, Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceMay 20, 2021

As debate rages over Australia Day, a rising star in our Indigenous community defends our...

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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