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Avoid latest fad: Education and employment key to reduce Indigenous imprisonment rate
Australia must take a cautionary approach to Justice Reinvestment to avoid spending more money to achieve very little. Read More
More Indigenous students failing NAPLAN in all states except WA & QLD
NAPLAN results show plummeting standards of Indigenous education across the country, according to a new report titled Indigenous Education 2012 from The Centre for Independent Studies. Read More
Fresh Thinking Needed for Fresher Food
Outback Stores in remote Indigenous communities have done nothing to improve healthy eating in these areas, argues a new report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week. Read More
No Excuses Schooling Needed to End High Indigenous Failure Rates
The bottom 150 schools in Australia are nearly all Indigenous schools when ranked using the 2009 NAPLAN results, highlights a new report released by The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) this week. Read More
Indigenous Australians Denied Employment by Inept Polices
Indigenous unemployment is stuck at 15% while unemployment in the rest of Australia is back to 5.3%. Yet in their paper Indigenous Employment, Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Facts for Evidence... Read More
Indigenous Health Short-Changed by a Lack of Accountability
Over the past 10 years, funding for Indigenous health programs has increased by 245% with no appreciable improvements in health outcomes, shows a new report being released this Wednesday. Read More
CDEP: Help or Hindrance?
CDEP POLICY KEEPS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OUT OF JOBS AND WITHOUT SERVICES: Established in the 1970s as a transition to work program, the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) has become an obstacle... Read More
INDIGENOUS EDUCATION ‘GAP’ A COVER UP FOR POLICY FAILURE
Governments have been setting targets to ‘close the gap’ in Indigenous education for the past 20 years, and yet literacy and numeracy have not improved. Large volumes of taxpayer funds have been committed,... Read More
GOVT HOMEOWNERSHIP SCHEMES STILL FAILING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
The great Australian dream of owning one’s own home has been denied to Indigenous Australians by excessive government bureaucracy, says a report being released on Thursday. Read More
Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory
Failure of Indigenous Education in the Northern Territory: The Northern Territory government has known for the past ten years that education for most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is... Read More
Indigenous Participation in University Education
SELLING SHORT INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION PARTICIPATION The government’s use of race-based ‘average’ educational performance measures denigrates Indigenous achievement, ignoring the achievements... Read More
