This report examines the structure and role of the Native Title Representative Bodies, the resources available to Native Title Representative Bodies, and the inter-relationships with other organisations, including the strategic planning and setting priorities, claimant applications pursued outside the Native Title Representative Body structure and non-claimant applications. The report includes a dissenting report by opposition...

This report from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, analyses the current approach to Indigenous health and proposes a campaign to achieve equality in health status. The campaign recommends that governments commit to achieving equality of health status and life expectation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people...

Jon Altman, Boyd Hunter and Nicholas Biddle examine trends across a number of socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians from the 1967 referendum to the present, using four Censuses of Population and Housing carried out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. Outcomes for Indigenous Australians, non-Indigenous Australians and the ratios...

This first comprehensive external review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the principal policy adviser to government on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, has found that the organisation is in urgent need of structural change. The report recommends 67 reforms which give greater control of ATSIC to Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

Reconciliation is often discussed in terms of restoring moral community, initiated by the perpetrator's acknowledgement of the wrongfulness of his or her act, followed by remorse and reparation, which opens the way for forgiveness and, ultimately, the restoration of community. In this paper, Andrew Schaap argues that it is a political mistake to think of...