This report, the fourth comprehensive analysis of expenditures on health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, examines expenditure in 2004–05 on health for Indigenous Australians and compares this with health expenditure for the rest of the Australian population.

It begins with examples from debates over the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the income security system in the 1960s and 1970s, and then explores Noel Pearson's contributions on this topic in the early 2000s, with his advocacy of a less 'passive' and responsibility-based welfare system. It notes ultimately how Pearson’s contributions revisit difference arguments...

In total, 12,622 households lived in state owned and managed Indigenous housing at 30 June 2007 and a further 10,835 households were on waiting lists for this type of housing. This publication details the Commonwealth State Housing Agreement public rental housing assistance in this area for 2006-07.In total, 12,622 households lived in state owned and...

Knowledge about sexual violence against women from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds is scant. Anecdotally, levels of sexual violence are purported to be high, but national victimisation surveys may not capture, or may misrepresent, the extent of sexual violence in these communities. While many of the reasons for not reporting sexual violence to...

Through a detailed comparison with Canada and New Zealand, Melanie Durette demonstrates that the Australian government's approach to Indigenous customary and commercial fishing rights stands outside developments in other Commonwealth countries. The paper focuses on commercial fishing in particular as an opportunity for Indigenous people to more fully realise their economic rights.