The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: an overview 2011 is a summary publication of Indigenous health and welfare statistics prepared by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Together with a series of articles available online from the AIHW Indigenous observatory and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, it provides...

This project sought to understand how housing procurement strategies impact on outcomes for Indigenous people in remote settlements. It examined four cases studies where governments have intervened in housing procurement processes and what makes for success in achieving improvements in social, cultural and economic outcomes. Authors: James Davidson, Paul Memmott, Carroll Go-Sam and Elizabeth Grant.

The project found that the way contracts for procurement are designed can play an important role in enhancing or creating positive social and economic outcomes (such as employment, education and community capacity building) as part of the construction process. By contrast, mainstream housing procurement contracts driven by economic imperatives (including minimising financial risk and maximising...

This compendium contains all Indigenous data contained in the Report on Government Services 2011. It was compiled by the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, for which the Productivity Commission supplies the Secretariat. For a number of years, the Report on Government Services has devoted particular attention to mainstream services delivered to...

This paper reviews the evidence on policies and programs that reduce offending by Indigenous juveniles in Australia. Indigenous juveniles (those aged 10 to 16 years in Queensland and 10 to 17 years in all other jurisdictions) are over-represented at all stages of the criminal justice system, and their over-representation becomes more pronounced at the most...