First Peoples economic conditions
Alternative labels
Aboriginal Australians economic conditions
Working paper
The comparative wellbeing of the New Zealand Maori and Indigenous Australian populations since 2000
This paper argues that Indigenous economic wellbeing can be partly improved by addressing broader macroeconomic factors. However, institutional differences, cultural contexts and other societal factors are probably more important for explaining country-specific differences in observed trends in other measures of wellbeing such as psychological distress, incarceration rates and even suicide.
Discussion paper
Prison to work - employment service offer 2018 - 2021: consultation paper
This consultation paper outlines initiatives to assist Indigenous prisoners to access the support they need on their release.
Report
Education and employment outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
This audit assessed whether Queensland is reducing the gap in education and employment outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Report
Housing and Indigenous disability: lived experiences of housing and community infrastructure
This study investigated the interconnections between housing, community infrastructure and quality of life for Indigenous people living with disability.
Report
The cashless debit card trial evaluation: a short review
The concept of a 'Healthy Welfare Card', now renamed as the Cashless Debit Card (CDC), was a recommendation of the Forrest Review into Employment and Training. In March 2017 the Department of Social Services released a ‘Wave 1’ evaluation of the CDC trials in Ceduna and Kununurra. This paper reviews this evaluation report.