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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.

 

Indigenous prosperity is key to Closing the Gap
Charles JacobsJuly 30, 2018The Australian

A decade ago the federal government launched the watershed Closing the Gap strategy, which set...

Indigenous prosperity plan panned
Charles JacobsJuly 20, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Critics of the federal government’s plan to ‘refresh’ the Closing the Gap strategy have argued...

Indigenous child welfare double standards will perpetuate gap
Jeremy SammutJune 15, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Bill Shorten has been rightly criticised for his comments suggesting ‘culture’ take priority over the...

Competition breeds benefits for Indigenous business
Charles JacobsMay 25, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

Much has been said about the federal government’s Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP). Launched in 2015,...

Balance the key to CDP bungle
Charles JacobsMay 9, 2018Online Opinion

Recent revelations about the ongoing dysfunction of the Community Development Programme (CDP) are again stirring...

Beware of overusing Indigenous business targets
Charles JacobsMay 5, 2018The Spectator: Flat White

The Indigenous business sector is booming. But recent calls for more targets to boost Aboriginal...

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