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Evaluation

Ngā haeata mātauranga: assessing Māori education


"The Māori Education Strategy: Ka Hikitia - Accelerating Success 2013-2017" is an updated strategy building on the changes of The Māori Education Strategy: Ka Hikitia - Managing For Success 2008-2012' (which set the direction for improving how the education system performs for Māori students). This renewed strategy aims to change how the education system performs...
Blog post

The 25th Anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody


Despite great changes in Indigenous policy in the last twenty-five years, the number of Indigenous deaths in custody has not declined. Between 1987 and 1991, while the Royal Commission was underway, there were 23 Indigenous deaths in prison custody and 28 in police custody. From 2009 to 2013 (2014 and 2015 data is not yet...
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Shameful statistics: black deaths in custody


The Coronial inquest into the death of Ms Dhu, a Yamatji woman from Western Australia is in its final stages. In 2014, the 22 year old was pronounced dead at the Hedland Health Campus, 45 hours after being taken into police custody for unpaid fines. She is one of an increasing number of Aboriginal Australians...
Report

The financial economy and Indigenous young people in Australia


Little is known about Indigenous young Australians and the financial economy. This report, funded by the First Nations Foundation, aims to better understand how Indigenous young people navigate the financial economy.