In this positioning paper Paul Memmott, Stephen Long, Martin Bell, John Taylor and Dominic Brown outline a research project which aims to carry out a combination of statistical and field-based research on the residential mobility of Indigenous people in selected discrete and rural communities in order to quantify and contextualize their mobility patterns.

Risk assessments are necessary to decide which offenders should be targeted for rehabilitation and to deal with the increasing demand by the public and politicians that offenders who are at a high risk of reoffending, especially violent and sexual offending, should not be released prematurely. Alfred Allen and Deborah Dawson report on a risk assessment...

It identifies the impediments Indigenous people face in accessing mainstream public and long-term community housing assistance programs and sustaining tenancies in public and community housing. And it discusses policy actions and measures that may help to overcome these obstacles. Authors: Paul Flatau, Lesley Cooper, Mary Morris, Andrew Beer, Natalie McGrath, Marc Adam and Dora Marinova

Identifiable Commonwealth expenditure in the area of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs began with the establishment of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs soon after the landmark referendum in 1967. Over the past decade, John Gardiner-Garden finds, per-capita expenditure on Indingenous Australians (once adjusted to reflect their under-utlisation iof other programs) is not significantly higher...

Family violence and sexual assault are reported to be at crisis levels in many Indigenous communities. In response to calls from Indigenous people for change, a number of state and territory governments have established Task Forces, drafted policy documents, and held inquiries into the nature and extent of the violence. In this Briefing Paper Monique...