A 10-year roadmap to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership, cultural strength and best practices into Australia’s mental health system. The plan provides a strategic approach to achieving the highest standard of social and emotional wellbeing, mental health and suicide prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, focusing on five key themes.

The paper introduces the social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) model and provides an overview of its key features, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander selfhood, SEWB domains, determinants of health, and expressions and experiences of SEWB. It presents the challenges in effective implementation and provides recommended best practice approaches.

There are over 4 million veterans in Australia, more than half of them aged over 65. This report synthesises available research on veterans’ needs in aged care, focusing on mental health, cognitive health, physical health, and care experiences. It identifies gaps in research and highlights the importance of trauma-informed and culturally appropriate care for veterans.

This report has found only 6% of the Bringing Them Home report recommendations – made to support Stolen Generations survivors and their families almost 28 years ago – have been clearly implemented. It recommends a National Healing Package of priority changes to enable remaining elderly survivors to live out their days with dignity.

This strategy outlines the actions the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water will take to progress reconciliation within the organisation. Its five key outcomes seek to incorporate the expertise of First Nations people into the department's policy, program and regulatory work while creating a culturally supportive environment for First Nations staff.