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Lowitja Institute

Discussion paper

Indigenous-led rights-based approaches to climate litigation

Kristina Vine, Lillian Ireland

Indigenous peoples are taking a leading role in climate litigation and using it as a strategic platform to drive policy and governance reform. This report provides an in-depth analysis of rights-based climate litigation, making recommendations for how legal services, communities, policymakers and governments can progress climate justice.
Report

Close the gap campaign report 2025


This report describes the ongoing challenges and tangible solutions needed to close the health and wellbeing gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The report makes recommendations across a range of areas, including calling on the Australian Government to implement the recommendations of the Productivity Commission's 2024 Closing the Gap Review and the four...
Report

Social and emotional wellbeing: a review

Stewart Sutherland, Graham Gee

The paper introduces the social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) model and provides an overview of its key features, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander selfhood, SEWB domains, determinants of health, and expressions and experiences of SEWB. It presents the challenges in effective implementation and provides recommended best practice approaches.
Briefing paper

Embedding cultural safety: National Cultural Safety Training Standards and organisational action for cultural safety


This policy brief outlines the importance of cultural safety in addressing racism, the need for clarity and understanding about cultural safety and creating pathways for embedding cultural safety in health and human services through establishing national training standards and a linked accreditation process, combined with dedicated organisational action.
Discussion paper

Cultural safety in Australia: discussion paper


Culture plays a significantly protective role in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ individual, and community lives. This paper reflects on the history of advocacy for cultural safety in Australia, clarifies how cultural safety training and education differs from other types of cultural training, propose a revised set of nationally consistent quality standards for cultural...