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Indigenous

Broad subject area
Journal article

Cuts both ways: tenants’ rights and the double-sided consequences of ‘secure tenure’ in remote Aboriginal communities

On 7 February 2016, public housing tenants from the remote Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa in the Northern Territory commenced unprecedented legal action against the CEO of the Northern Territory Department of Housing in an attempt to address the poor state of housing in their community.
Discussion paper

Facilitating equal access to justice: an intermediary/communication assistant scheme for Tasmania?


This issues paper investigates a new way to ensure equal access to justice for all Tasmanians. It discusses the feasibility of instituting a communication assistant/intermediary scheme in Tasmania for people with complex communication needs involved in the criminal justice system to enhance their ability to gain equal access to justice. Many Tasmanians have complex communication...
Report

State of Australia's mothers 2016


This report is inspired by and builds on some of the key findings in the first ever global report on Motherhood, State of the World's Mothers, produced by Save the Children International.
Article

Do's and don'ts of investing in Indigenous social enterprises


Insights from the recent two year Indigenous Social Enterprise Fund pilot provide lessons about supporting Indigenous social enterprises to grow. The Indigenous Social Enterprise Fund (ISEF) was established to support the development of Indigenous social enterprises to scale and become sustainable. A $1 million, two-year pilot, the ISEF offered a combination of a grant and...
Report

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health organisations: online services report—key results 2014–15


Summary This seventh national report presents information from 278 organisations across Australia, funded by the Australian Government to provide one or more of the following health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: primary health care, maternal and child health care, social and emotional wellbeing services, and substance-use services. These organisations participated in the...