The Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA), in partnership with the three Councils and ATSIS, conducted a robust community consultation process to form the core of a regional plan. This draft was shared with communities and the general public for input and comments and additional comments were considered and incorporated.

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...

This report from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, examines some of the issues that have arisen during the debate around the National Indigenous Council Land Tenure Principles and proposed changes to the communal nature of land interests to promote individual home ownership.

Larissa Behrendt looks at the background to the abolition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. She argues that, in spite of some shortcomings, ATSIC made an important democratic contribution and its demise has left much of the Indigenous community lacking a voice in policy debates.

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...