This report estimates the levels and patterns of government expenditure on services relating to Indigenous Australians to contribute to a better understanding of its adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of government. This first Indigenous Expenditure Report was released on 28 February 2011. It contains estimates of the levels and patterns of government expenditure on services relating...

This report assesses improvements in service delivery for remote indigenous communities in Australia. This is the third report under s15 of the Coordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Services Act 2009. This report is primarily focussed on implementation at the community level, while the September report will be more focussed on government activity. This third report focuses...

The Indigenous estate, the assemblage of Indigenous lands held under a diversity of land rights and native title regimes now covers an estimated 1.7 million sq kms or 22 per cent of continental Australia. For a variety of reasons, including a restricted common property regime that is the dominant form of land tenure and remoteness...

Taking bearings from critical currents of thought in south Asia and black Africa and beyond, this paper discusses some of the differences in how postcolonialism is read from place to place in the light of local politics and culture.

Jason Behrendt shares his views on the interpretation of Section 36(1) of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) that allows for claims to Crown lands and the position of the Crown Lands Minister in relation to the local Aboriginal land council. Image: 'Everleigh Street', Newtown grafitti / flickr