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First Peoples

Policy report

Review of the Homelands Policy


This review aims to identify appropriate approaches to supporting Aboriginal people to live on their ancestral lands.
Evaluation

“It’s good to know each other, to be Kungas” final report


This is an evaluation report produced on behalf of the Kunga Stopping Violence Program (KSVP), a throughcare program supporting Aboriginal women who have been incarcerated in the Alice Springs Correctional Centre for an alleged violent offence. It replaces an earlier interim report, published August 2020.
Policy report

Worlds apart: remote Indigenous disadvantage in the context of wider Australia


Remote and very remote Indigenous communities have become victims of a ‘wicked problem’. This paper analyses a wide range of data from locations and communities across Australia. While it cannot be said the issues identified are exclusive to Indigenous communities, it is clear that Indigenous communities are subject to them at a far greater proportion...
Submission

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service submission to the Department of Premier and Cabinet consultation on Victorian Youth Strategy


This submission focuses on the rights of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children and young people involved in the criminal, civil and family law systems.
Article

An Indigenous ‘Voice’ must be enshrined in our Constitution. Here’s why


Concerns have emerged that the Uluru Statement’s call for constitutional enshrinement – or protection – of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, is going unheeded.