Government relations with First Peoples
Alternative labels
Aboriginal Australians government relations
Strategy
ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander agreement 2015–18
This Agreement sets out the commitment of the ACT Government, its service partners, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elected Body, and the community, to work together to recognise and respond to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the ACT and surrounding region.
Report
Closing the gap: Prime Minister's report 2015
This report shows that although there has been some improvement in education and health outcomes for Indigenous Australians, most Closing the Gap targets are not on track to be met. Abstract
Discussion paper
Experimental governance in Australian Indigenous affairs
The competing principles framework for analysing Australian Indigenous affairs is revisited, starting with Rowse on 'the Coombs experiment'. Rowse rehabilitates this term from pejorative critics, arguing that all government policy in Indigenous affairs is experimental. The task becomes one of characterising changing patterns of government experiment since the Commonwealth became involved in Indigenous affairs on...
Report
Academic perspectives on The Forrest review: creating parity
This compilation provides an overview of the issues and challenges identified by academics as needing to be addressed when thinking about the recommendations of the Forrest Review - which examines Indigenous training and employment in Australia - and the impact they could have on people's lives if implemented.
Report
Final report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act of Recognition Review Panel
Under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Recognition Act 2013 the Minister for Indigenous Affairs appointed a Review Panel on 27 March 2014. The panel was tasked with assessing levels of public awareness and support for amending the Constitution to recognise Indigenous peoples and levels of community support for different proposals for constitutional change.