The literacy debate rarely addresses the critical social and historical factors that also account for why literacy levels among remote Indigenous youth are lower than their mainstream counterparts. The focus on schooling obscures the less obvious fact that we must also be cognisant of the broader sociocultural factors associated with literacy acquisition, maintenance and transmission...

In this paper the authors present an analysis of census data as it relates to Indigenous temporary mobility and analyse the spatial and demographic complexities that underwrite them.

The High Court passed up the opportunity to clarify important issues in its judgement on the NT Intervention, writes Tessa Meyrick.

The 2009 Garma Festival Key Forum focussed on the creative industries and how they interface with Indigenous Australians. Robyn Archer, singer, writer, artistic director, and arts advocate, gave the opening address to the session Indigenous creative industries: across the spectrum.

In 2007-08, there were over 36,000 dwellings specifically targeted to providing housing assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - an increase of almost 1,000 dwellings since 2005-06. A further 58,000 Indigenous households were receiving assistance through mainstream housing programs in the same period.