This report reflects the views expressed by indigenous parents, educators and those in the broader indigenous community about recent changes to funding arrangements which threaten to undermine their full involvement in the education of their children. It is also the outcome of the concern expressed by professional educators about changes which may arrest progress in...

Vocational education and training provides a broad range of benefits, according to the initial findings of a recent nationwide survey of Indigenous Australians who undertook training in 2003. High numbers of students reported that training helped to improve their confidence/self-esteem and become more involved in their communities, as well as improving their workplace skills and...

There is currently a growing policy interest in the effects of the regulatory environment on the ability of Indigenous people to undertake customary harvesting of wild resources. Matthew Gray, Jon Altman and Natane Halasz have developed a methodology to estimate the economic benefits derived from the use of wild resources, which has been piloted with...

Since the 1970s, Australia has been conducting a utopian socialist experiment with the lives of a generation of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in remote Australia. Helen Hughes and Jenness Warin argue that the resulting deprivation and misery of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can no longer be tolerated by wider Australia. New...

Nic Biddle, Boyd Hunter, and Jerry Schwab examine the distribution of Indigenous education participation across Australia, and present the most important factors explaining these rates.