Aboriginal Health Workers receive the lowest pay among community service and health occupations but are assumed to be able to deal with some of the country’s most intractable health problems, argues this report. Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) have been short changed. They have not only been provided with charlatan training but also sold a charlatan...

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s pledge to ‘Close the Gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health outcomes was perceived as a long overdue landmark, but its achievement will require more than yet another government strategy or more funding. The Rudd government is doing what previous administrations have always done — throwing more and more money at the...

The lack of private property rights on communal title land has prevented Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders from becoming homeowners. Even for those who can afford to purchase a house, banks will not provide financing for home loans without legal title over land. But the choice to become a homeowner should be available to all...

In this policy monograph Policy Analyst Sara Hudson argues that it is time to abandon the misguided notion that CDEP ‘helps’ Indigenous people and acknowledge that CDEP masks the real level of Indigenous unemployment and hides the crisis in Indigenous education. “If the government wants to break the cycle of joblessness, welfare dependence, and its...