This background note outlines the available evidence in relation to income management in the Northern Territory, Cape York and Western Australia, and concludes that the evidence for or against it is inconclusive. Income management (also known as ‘welfare quarantining’) refers to a policy under which a percentage of the welfare payments of certain people are...

Between August 2007 and December 2011 more than 8,000 children were provided with over 14,000 dental services through the Closing the Gap Child Oral Health Program. This bulletin presents information on the dental health status and the dental services provided under the Closing the Gap (CtG) Child Oral Health Program to Indigenous children living in...

Young people in the Northern Territory are three and a half times more likely to take their own lives than young people nationally and 75% of all child suicides in the Northern Territory between 2007 and 2011 are by Indigenous youth.

In this submission, ANTaR outlines key expenditure priorities for the 2012-13 Federal Budget. These recommendations are designed to promote community and economic development, advance human rights and address the disadvantage experienced by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. In the 2011-12 Budget, the Federal Government invested an additional $500 million / 5 years in...

This paper aims to provide background information about the best ways of increasing the number of high quality foster and kinship carers in the Northern Territory