• 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.

 

Income Management for all a courageous step forwards
Sara HudsonJune 25, 2010

Federal parliament this week passed laws that will subject non-Indigenous welfare recipients in the Northern...

Healthy Stores, Healthy Communities: The Impact of Outback Stores on Remote Indigenous Australians
Sara HudsonJune 17, 2010IA122

Indigenous Australians, especially those living in remote communities, have some of the worst health outcomes...

Fresh Thinking Needed for Fresher Food
May 25, 2010

Outback Stores in remote Indigenous communities have done nothing to improve healthy eating in these...

Would-be Indigenous homeowners abandoned
Sara HudsonMay 18, 2010The Australian

The federal budget's redirection of $56 million of unused capital from its failed Home Ownership...

Aborigines hurt by the stereotype of suffering
Sara HudsonMay 12, 2010The Sydney Morning Herald

Can Australia be called racist just because a proportion of Australians are? Channel Ten’s 7pm...

NAPLAN tests show the Indigenous gap
Helen HughesMay 11, 2010The Newcastle Herald

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) 2010 tests start today. The test results 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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