The latest Closing the Gap report reveals just four of the 19 targets are on track to be achieved. It comes after years of failing to give First Nations people a say over their own lives.
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The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has handed down a damning report into an unlawful policing strategy. It’s the latest example of First Nations children being over-policed.
The failed Voice to Parliament referendum dashed the hopes of many mapping out a path to reconciliation. If we look to the example set by North American Indians, there might be another way forward.
More Australian employers are keen to employ Indigenous workers, but a large-scale analysis of job adverts shows a mismatch between demand for and supply of Indigenous talent.
A Productivity Commission report released this week highlighted the continued lack of agency First Australians have - even though a comprehensive framework is already in place to try to Close the Gap
The broad-ranging criticism is contained in the commission’s first review of the 2020 “National Agreement on Closing the Gap”
Indigenous-owned business are powerful drivers of Indigenous employment.
New research shows keeping First Nations families together is better for the children’s wellbeing. How can First Nations families be better supported to achieve this?
In the 15 years since Australian governments committed to improving Indigenous employment rates, virtually nothing has been achieved.
Decades of government Indigenous Affairs policy has not delivered. A new approach is needed. Policy-making informed by Indigenous lived experience through a Voice to parliament may be the answer.
The initiatives come amid a spate of publicity about the problems in Alice Springs and elsewhere in the Northern Territory
While statistics tell us the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer who die is increasing, the reality is likely worse.
In this podcast, Michelle chats with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton.
After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.
This is a vote that is too important to be let fail. Yet you would be an optimist – despite the good support it is getting in the opinion polls – if you rated its prospects at 50-50
The ten-year National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children is proposing to align with Closing the Gap to address First Nations violence. This could work, but there are limitations.
There has been a global shift to declare racism a public health crisis. But we need to drill deeper to understand racism, rethink health data and listen to lived experience.
The Morrison government has claimed it has delivered on its commitment to co-design an Indigenous Voice, but the parliamentary term will end without any such Voice being legislated or in place.
There have been many barriers for Aboriginal communities to access the vaccine during the pandemic. Despite this, communities are taking the lead in ensuring everyone gets vaccinated.
There is a contradiction between the New South Wales government’s plan for Closing the Gap and its persecution of Aboriginal people who want to maintain their saltwater culture.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer of Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Principal Research Fellow & Deputy Head of School, School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Dean, Medical School, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy, UNSW