In Indigenous policy circles there is a desire to lift the educational and employment outcomes of remote Indigenous students, relative to their non-Indigenous peers in the rest of Australia. This paper queries some current policy approaches to these issues and seeks to provide a practical and grounded perspective to education programs in remote Indigenous Australia.

This is the final report of a project intended to evaluate, and where possible develop and demonstrate effective and transferable chronic condition management strategies, and to generate research evidence about their processes, impacts and health outcomes. This project provides strong qualitative and quantitative evidence that people involved in structured chronic condition management strategies (eg care...

This overview of Australian Indigenous health draws largely on previously published information, some of which has been re-analysed to provide clearer comparisons between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people (for more details of statistics and methods, readers should refer to the original sources). Very little information is available separately for Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders...

This report has been prepared as a component of the next phase of the Rural-Remote and Indigenous Local Government Program of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG). The aim of the overall strategy is to identify key steps in building the capacity of small rural-remote and Indigenous councils across Australia – and...

Improving government service provision is an important factor in achieving social and economic benefits, especially within Indigenous communities. A common feature of government service delivery, both within Australia and internationally, is the use of third party providers, many of whom are not‐for‐profit organisations, to deliver services on behalf of government departments. This can be associated...