New Research

Juvenile detention population in Australia 2011

09 February 2012This report presents information on the number of young people in detention in 2011 and describes recent trends in the detention population.

Improving Indigenous community governance

02 February 2012Strengthening the organisational capacity of both Indigenous and government organisations is critical to raising the health, wellbeing and prosperity of Indigenous Australian communities.

Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution

30 January 2012Current multiparty support has created a historic opportunity to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of Australia, to affirm their full and equal citizenship, and to remove the last vestiges of racial discrimination from the Constitution.

2010-11 report on the operation of the Aged Care Act 1997

23 January 2012Recent reviews of the Aged Care Act of 1997 have led to increases in government funding in particular, aged care facilites and the services they provide to indigenous communities.

A death in Alice Springs

A death in Alice Springs

20 January 2012This article reviews the circumstances of the death of an Aboriginal man in 2010 to question whether another recent account of the case as an instance of ‘white supremacist settler violence’ in Central Australia can be sustained.

Child protection Australia 2010-11

20 January 2012This report contains comprehensive information on state and territory child protection and support services, and the characteristics of Australian children within the child protection system.

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Education

Caring for country: Australian natural and cultural resource management

30 January 2012This issue presents work and ideas from a diverse range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners, researchers and collaborators who work in central and northern Australia in a range of environments, from local to regional scales.

Indigenous child placement principle: audit report 2010/11

18 January 2012This paper represents the second audit conducted by the Commission in fulfilling its legislative responsibility to monitor the Department of Communities’ compliance with section 83 of the Child Protection Act 1999.

Indigenous policy

Healthy lifestyle programs for physical activity and nutrition

01 February 2012Over half (51%) of Indigenous people living in non-remote parts of Australia aged 15 and over do very little or no exercise, compared with 33% of non-Indigenous Australians (AIHW 2011a).

Commentary

Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: the "what" and "how"

05 February 2012In Inside Story, Paul Kildea looks at what’s being proposed for Australian constitutional reform, and how we might get there

What's data got to do with it? Reassessing the NT intervention

25 January 2012Income management should be one of the easier programs to measure writes Eva Cox for The Conversation.

Analysis of Indigenous funding in the 2011-12 Commonwealth Budget

09 June 2011Progress in ‘Closing the Gap’ on Indigenous disadvantage is heart-breakingly slow writes Lesley Russell.

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Topic Guides

NBN: Guide for Consumers

  • Australian Communications Consumer Action Network & Internet Society Australia

09 June 2011The Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), have developed NBN: A Guide for Consumers, designed to offer all Australians information about the National Broadband Network.

A guide to understanding and working with General Practice in NSW

20 May 2011Providing an outline of general practice, this resource considers its uniformity and diversity; its funding arrangements, service delivery, workforce, training, capacity and supporting structures.

Working with Aboriginal people and communities: A practical resource

23 April 2009This practice resource is a guide for all Community Services and relevant non-government organisation (NGO) staff, particularly field staff. 

Audio

Aboriginal young people and crime

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17 March 2011One major theme emerging from this seminar was the continued over-representation of young Aboriginal people in the juvenile justice system.

Paying the price for prisons; counting the cost of crime

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21 February 2011WA Labor MP, Paul Papalia, argues that if the money currently used to lock up law-breakers was spent to transform kids and teens before they got into trouble such investment may well be considered worthwhile.

Indigenous health

Video

Not sorry enough

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22 November 2011What are the short-term and long-term goals Indigenous Australians are setting for their communities, and who will be leading the way? Karla Grant leads a panel of Kim Hill, Linda Burney, Tania Major and Robbie Thorpe through these contentious questions.

Paul Keating master storyteller

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15 November 2011On this special Sunday evening presentation, Paul Keating joined Robert Manne for a conversational marathon, coinciding with the publication of his post-prime ministerial speeches.

Housing

The role of assertive outreach in ending 'rough sleeping'

The role of assertive outreach in ending 'rough sleeping'

19 January 2012Drawing on experience of policy-makers, service providers and service users in Brisbane, Sydney and Darwin, this paper suggests that deliberate and strategic attempts to end a person's homelessness can be successful.

Websites

Solid Arts

30 September 2011Solid Arts is an online resource with free legal tools, practical advice and links to other sites.

Conciliation register

17 May 2010This register provides summaries of a selection of complaints that have been resolved through the Australian Human Rights Commission’s conciliation process and is provided to assist people involved in complaints to prepare for conciliation.

Indigenous Human Rights Network Australia

12 April 2010IHRNA is a network of people who advocate and promote the awareness of indigenous human rights in Australia.

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Indifferent Inclusion Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation

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Russell McGregor is one of the foremost scholars in the field of Aboriginal history. The very title of the book breaks new ground because of the questions implicit in its approach…his perspective is genuinely fresh and insightful. Historian Mark McKenna
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NBN: Guide for Consumers

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