Indigenous
Broad subject area
Policy
Investing in Indigenous students
A Shorten Labor Government will invest an additional $100 million to support Indigenous students to succeed at school, and boost the number of Indigenous teachers. This is part of Labor’s plan to help close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Currently, the gap between outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students is unacceptably high. Indigenous...
Policy
Frontline funds for family violence
Labor will deliver more than $70 million over three years in targeted funding to ensure those suffering from family violence can access critical services when they need them. Labor will commit almost $50 million to frontline legal services, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services, to ensure women suffering from family violence get legal...
Article
Healthy country, healthy people
Recent analyses of five Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) across regional and remote Australia demonstrate the social and cultural co-benefits of Indigenous land management initiatives.
Briefing paper
Towards a Queensland action plan for vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families
This report from the Queensland Government discusses how an action plan to respond to vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families will be developed. Key priorities in Supporting Families Changing Futures include responding differently to the over-representation of vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families in the statutory child protection system...
Policy
Vibrant NT: arts and culture in the Northern Territory
Informing arts and cultural policy in the Northern Territory, this strategic policy document begins in May 2016 and supports a ten-year plan for 'a thriving, imaginative and innovative creative economy where the arts, collections and cultural expression are recognised and supported as the Territory’s greatest assets.'