Indigenous Affairs
CIS has been active in advocating for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to receive the same standards of education and health services that other Australians take for granted.
Poor education is a major factor behind high unemployment and welfare dependency, with many Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders living in appalling community housing and suffering from some of the highest rates of infectious diseases in the world. Work is needed to implement private property rights on communal title land and to address the high rates of alcohol and substance abuse rife in Indigenous communities.
Publications
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Healthy Stores, Healthy Communities: The Impact of Outback Stores on Remote Indigenous Australians
| 15 Jun 2010 | Issue AnalysisThe federal government’s initiative to improve remote community stores is crowding out the competition and not delivering... Read More...
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Indigenous Education 2010
& | 20 Apr 2010 | Policy MonographsThe 2009 NAPLAN literacy and numeracy tests confirm the continued failure of Indigenous education. The government's 'closing... Read More...
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Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence Based Policies
| 10 Feb 2010 | Policy MonographsProfessor Helen Hughes, Senior Research Fellow at the CIS and Mark Hughes highlight that Indigenous non-labour force participation... Read More...
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FEATURE: Shopping for health
| 12 Dec 2009 | POLICY MagazineImproving health conditions in remote Indigenous communities depdends on better stores. Often the local store is the only... Read More...
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Closing the Accountability Gap: The First Step Towards Better Indigenous Health
| 03 Dec 2009 | Policy MonographsSara Hudson argues that the untargeted nature of government spending in indigenous health means that it is difficult to know... Read More...
Opinion & Commentary
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Little Gungaleeda girl: a preventable tragedy
| 01 Sep 2010 | The DrumThe death of the 'little Gungaleeda girl' is a tragic outcome of poorly resourced medical care in remote Indigenous communities, ... Read More
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Helen Hughes opens her diary
| 31 Jul 2010 | The Spectator (Australia)Helen Hughes writes the Diary for Spectator Australia about her trip to Cape York, 31 July 2010.... Read More
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Government doing something for Indigenous people not with them ...
| 29 Jun 2010 | Online OpinionWithout community engagement Outback Stores will be yet another example of government doing something for Indigenous people ... Read More
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Outback Stores is not the solution
| 29 Jun 2010 | The Canberra TimesRather than running stores for Indigenous communities, Outback Stores should be empowering residents to run the stores themselves, ... Read More
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Would–Be Indigenous Homeowners Abandoned
| 18 May 2010 | The AustralianThe redirection of funds away from the Home Ownership on Indigenous Land program signals that remote Indigenous Australian’s ... Read More
Ideas@TheCentre
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Education key to living in two worlds
| 30 Jul 2010In his speech at the opening dinner of the Centre’s annual Consilium conference last week, Noel Pearson raised the point ...
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A world away - Halls Creek, a remote town in WA
| 16 Jul 2010Inspired by the alcohol restrictions in the nearby town of Fitzroy Crossing, two local women lobbied to have the same rules ...
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Income Management for all a courageous step forwards
| 25 Jun 2010Federal parliament this week passed laws that will subject non-Indigenous welfare recipients in the Northern Territory to ...
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The forgotten Indigenous Australians
| 23 Apr 2010This week Channel Ten’s 7pm Project did a report on whether Australia is racist. It raised a few questions – specifically ...
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Money doesn’t grow on trees
| 19 Mar 2010Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s decision to support Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin’s income management bill ...
