This special report looks in detail at the experiences of Aboriginal people navigating the Department of Communities and Justice's (DCJ) system, highlighting the challenges and barriers they face. It finds that the DCJ complaint system lacks integration, coordination and consistency and is not sufficiently attuned or accessible to Aboriginal people. The report makes 58 recommendations...

Drawing from extensive consultations from diverse populations including those with metropolitan, rural, and remote backgrounds, this report serves as a foundational document for the development of a National Anti-Racism Framework, focusing on the most prolific forms of racism experienced by First Nations peoples across Australia.

This paper argues the National Disability Insurance Scheme must enhance collaboration with participants, local communities and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, disability service providers, and the wider health system, to develop more locally led solutions that empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Deaf or Hard of Hearing participants to achieve better outcomes.

Current approaches to engaging First Nations peoples in urban policy and planning are placing an unreasonable and unsustainable burden, especially on Traditional Custodians. This research examines the relationship of First Nations peoples in Australia to urban policy, and is designed to centre First Nations sovereignty, authority, knowledge, governance and agency as the starting point toward...

Over the last 50+ years, the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCO) sector has developed an operating and service model which affirm Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing. This resource uses graphic and visual means to share the structure, operation and strengths of the model and draw attention to funding challenges.