Top Indigenous reports 2009

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21 December 2009The five most read reports and commentary pieces in the Indigenous area in 2009 were:

1. Overcoming Indigenous disadvantage: key indicators 2009
Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision |  Productivity Commission

2. Is 'Close the Gap' a useful approach?
Kerryn Pholi, Dan Black and Craig Richards | Australian Review of Public Affairs

3. Culture and wellbeing: the case of Indigenous Australians
Alfred Michael Dockery | Centre for Labour Market Research

4. Ideology, evidence and competing principles in Australian Indigenous affairs: from Brough to Rudd via Pearson and the NTER
Will Sanders | Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

5. 'You can drop dead': midwives bullying women
Elaine Dietsch, and others | Science Direct

 

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20 December 2011

On 18 November 2011, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator the Hon Kate Lundy, announced the establishment of an independent panel of eminent community leaders to conduct an inquiry into Australian Government services to ensure they are responsive to the needs of Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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