AFTER THE LABOR GOVERNMENT, the organisation facing the biggest test in the Queensland election was the new conservative hybrid, the Liberal National Party. It had polled well in the lead-up to the election, but in reality the swing it needed - in the vicinity of 8 per cent - was always on the outer margins...

AT FIRST, after my plane touched down in Far North Queensland, I couldn’t see much evidence of either financial or climatic turbulence. Towering banks of purple-grey cloud clung to the forested slopes that surround Cairns, but there wasn’t even a tail wind from cyclone Hamish, which was whipping up ferocious seas to the south. My...

This paper describes an established approach for building capacity used for the first time with Health Action Teams (HATs) in three remote indigenous communities in Cape York. A key purpose was to determine if the approach was an appropriate and practicable 'tool' in an Aboriginal context. This is not a research study but rather the...

This report examines the safety and wellbeing of children and young people in Queensland, using data and research from a range of sources. This report updates and expands on information provided in the Commission's previous Snapshot reports and includes data on issues such as health, disability, mortality, child protection, drug use and homelessness. Findings include...

This report provides a summary of the progress being made made to 'close the gap' and improve the quality of life for Indigenous Queenslanders living in discrete Aboriginal and mainland Torres Strait Islander communities. It outlines the key outcomes of the Queensland policy reform with the distinction between what has been already implemented and what...