Despite good intentions and considerable funding in recent years, educational outcomes for Indigenous students remain well behind those of non-Indigenous students. Suzanne Mellor and Matthew Corrigan argue that Indigenous education policy in Australia continues to be too loosely based on research findings, contributing to a slow improvement in outcomes for Indigenous students. They argue that...

Terry Burke provides a conceptual framework for understanding why and how indigenous cultures require culturally specific management practices in social housing, illustrating these issues with reference to Indigenous housing in Australia. The framework is adapted from the field of intercultural management and is used to reveal how social housing provision and management for Australia's indigenous...

Is 'sovereignty' a roadblock to a modern-day treaty or treaties between Indigenous peoples and the wider Australian community? In this second issues paper from the Centre's Treaty Project, Sean Brennan, Brenda Gunn and George Williams identify the different ways in which the term sovereignty is used. Domestically, it notes the range of Indigenous voices on...

Available national statistics and research are used to briefly outline what is known about child abuse in Indigenous communities and its causes.

Paul Memmott, Stephen Long, Catherine Chambers and Frederick Spring analyse categories of Indigenous homeless people from the literature, profiling a number of good practice responses to such needs categories in the field. This research builds on an earlier stage of work funded by the federal government that compiles the literature on strategic responses to Indigenous...