Family violence mars the lives of a very large number of Indigenous Australians, helping to effectively disable many communities and deny future generations a basic chance for health, happiness and prosperity. It is important to understand why some programs aimed at changing this situation succeed, and in fact what success means in this field, both...

The 2004-05 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey (NATSIHS) is the largest Indigenous health survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The survey collected health-related information from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. This booklet provides a summary of the main results from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

One of the largest surveys ever undertaken of Aboriginal children and families throws new light on why most existing intervention programs are failing to produce results needed for overcoming the present levels of Indigenous disadvantage. Volume Four of the Western Australian Aboriginal child health survey concentrates on family and community factors that influence outcomes for...

The Northern Territory has three categories of local government: municipal, community government and association councils. Will Sanders explores the historical development of these three categories, as well as their different relationships to Indigenous interests. The financial positions of the three types of local government are examined in relation to the very different service roles they...

The terms of reference for this inquiry relate to 'Indigenous workers whose paid labour was controlled by Government'. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, governments put in place extensive controls over the employment, working conditions and wages of Indigenous workers. These controls permitted, both explicitly and implicitly, the non-payment of wages to some Indigenous workers...