Indigenous participation in sentencing procedures has been occurring informally in remote communities for some time. This paper describes the range of practices used. It is a snapshot of current practice at year-end 2003 in Australia.

Their labour force and income status remain relatively poor, creating a challenge to Council of Australian Governments partners to ensure increased Indigenous participation in regional development planning and activity. John Taylor and Nicholas Biddle developed a baseline regional profile of Indigenous and non-Indigenous population numbers in the Murray-Darling Basin, to assist in development of the...

Results from an exploratory analysis of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mortality data are presented in this technical report. This report, based on available recorded data, is intended to inform and enhance future statistical reports. Due to differences between the States and Territories in the quality of death and population data for Aboriginal and...

This report examines the quality of identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients in seven data collections. The analyses focused firstly on the extent to which Indigenous status was missing or not stated in each data collection and, secondly (where possible) whether improvements in data quality had occurred over time. Thirdly, variations in data...

In this positioning paper Paul Flatau, Natalie McGrath, Selina Tually, Lesley Cooper, Mary Morris, Marc Adam, Dora Marinova, Andrew Beer outline a research project designed to assist in leveraging improved and sustainable outcomes in respect of Indigenous access to mainstream public and community housing.