On 26 February 2009 the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made his first annual statement to Parliament on the Australian Government's Closing the Gap strategy, outlining whole-of-government objectives and strategies. That statement was supported by a booklet outlining the whole of government approaches to Closing the Gap, as well as detailing National Partnerships and engagement with...

This report takes a closer look at Indigenous Supported Accommodation Assistance Program clients including the reasons why they seek support, what they needed and received while supported, and what their outcomes were.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make up a significant proportion of Supported Accommodation Assistance Program clients. This report takes a closer look at...

A central theme in this research is the meaning of home ownership to Indigenous people living on communal title lands as opposed to those living on non-communal title lands. Communal title lands are popularly perceived to occur in remote Indigenous settlements, where lands are jointly held in some form of a trust to the broader...

Measuring the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples provides a picture of the social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous Australians using data from the 2004-05 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey and a range of administrative datasets. Measuring the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

This paper describes an established approach for building capacity used for the first time with Health Action Teams (HATs) in three remote indigenous communities in Cape York. A key purpose was to determine if the approach was an appropriate and practicable 'tool' in an Aboriginal context. This is not a research study but rather the...