It is now some time since the initial phase of land rights legislation and native title law emerged in Australia. Talina Drabsch provides an overview of the current status of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and land in New South Wales, as expressed in legislation and in recent decisions of the High Court.

In this paper Talina Drabsch provides an overview of some of the key issues involving Indigenous Australians in NSW. Whilst there are many Indigenous cultures within Australia, this paper discusses issues that are generally a common experience for many Indigenous Australians, including health, education, employment, housing, violence, and criminal justice are discussed. This paper also...

Schools in NSW share with families and the community the responsibility for teaching values. While values are learnt predominantly in the home and modified through relationships and life experiences, parents and the community have high expectations about commonly held values also being taught in schools. Public schools teach values, including the values that underpin learning...

The Central Sydney Division of the Department of Housing is looking at the communities living in public housing estates in Sydney afresh and rethinking ways to improve their lives.

This paper has been prepared by the ABC's election analyst, Antony Green, as a final analysis of the 2003 New South Wales election. It includes details of the Londonderry supplementary election conducted on 31 May, final two-party preferred counts in every electorate, and an analysis of the distribution of preferences in the Legislative Assembly and...