This study addresses the disproportionate incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia by co-designing an Indigenous community-led, culturally responsive prevention framework. The resulting framework comprises three interconnected levels: universal outcomes for thriving children, connected families and empowered communities, rights-based systemic reforms, and culturally grounded program elements across the life course.

This report documents a national co-design process to establish a strong, culturally grounded and community-led Youth Voice initiative for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. Participants said existing systems too often engage young people in tokenistic or advisory-only ways, without genuine power-sharing or accountability.

This review examines the effectiveness of early intervention and secondary prevention approaches for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of young people and rangatahi aged 12-24 years. Overall, the evidence suggests many supports, including brief and low-intensity approaches, can reduce distress and improve wellbeing, functioning and coping.

This report captures the key insights, priorities and recommendations identified by participants in a forum held to help advance reconciliation across education systems. Focused on truth-telling, cultural responsiveness and shared responsibility, the report highlights three key recommendations that must be acted on at all levels to support genuine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination in...

This report analyses the disproportionate use of school disciplinary absences on First Nations students, students with disability and students living in out-of-home care and the intersection with poverty. It positions the issue as not only a matter for education policy and practice, but one requiring systemic reform, emphasising inequitable system design over individual behaviour.