Indigenous
Broad subject area
Article
Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?
Poverty and social exclusion play a big role in Indigenous child suicide. The causes are complex, but we know enough to act now to reduce the number of deaths in our communities.
Submission
Feedback on the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services' (NATSILS) submission to the Australian Government’s commitment to establish the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Position paper
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patient identification – 2019: position statement
Identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients is a point of concern across all specialties due to the impact under-identification has on data quality. AIDA advocates for best practice in patient identification and recognise its importance in the development of policy and services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities.
Policy
Policy initiative: Justice for First Nations peoples
Addressing Australia’s unfinished business: treaties, healing, justice & truth The Greens will work with First Nations peoples to introduce measures that support self-determination and recognise sovereignty. This includes the establishment of a body to enable treaty making and a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament. We must address our unfinished business: treaties, healing, justice and truth.
Working paper
Ensuring Indigenous benefit from large-scale renewable energy projects: drawing on experience from extractive industry agreement making
In the coming decades, Australia is set to see a dramatic expansion in renewable energy projects. It is likely that many of these will occur on land subject to Indigenous rights and interests. This paper looks to extractive industry experience in negotiating access and benefit sharing agreements with traditional owners to identify best practice to...