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Ideas@TheCentre

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3 short articles from CIS researchers emailed every Friday on the issues of the week.

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Publications

  1. FEATURE: Reconciling Culture and Advancement

    Alison Anderson | 25 Feb 2013 | POLICY Magazine

    This is the address and reply by Alison Anderson, NT Minister for Indigenous Advancement, to the NT Legislative Assembly... Read More...

  2. FEATURE: Enabling Indigenous Prosperity

    Sara Hudson | 25 Feb 2013 | POLICY Magazine

    Indigenous prosperity on Indigenous lands is possible only when we stop treating Aboriginal people as inherently different.

  3. Panacea to Prison? Justice Reinvestment in Indigenous Communities

    Sara Hudson | 31 Jan 2013 | Policy Monographs

    High Indigenous incarceration has elicited a long list of so-called solutions over the years. Yet the percentage of Aboriginal... Read More...

  4. Sustainability of Indigenous Communities

    Ron Staples, Sara Hudson, Wesley Aird | 20 Dec 2012 | Occasional Papers

    Social indicators of Indigenous disadvantage prove that the orthodox methods of delivering services to Indigenous people... Read More...

  5. Indigenous Education 2012

    Helen Hughes AO 1928 - 2013, Mark Hughes | 27 Jun 2012 | Policy Monographs

    Indigenous Education 2012 reviews the lack of progress by states and territories in improving Indigenous literacy and numeracy.... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Let’s get serious about tackling indigenous violence

    Sara Hudson | 05 Mar 2013 | The Punch

    For many remote Indigenous people, life is so bad that jail is often a better option.... Read More

  2. To get Aborigines out of jail give them education and jobs

    Sara Hudson | 07 Feb 2013 | The Australian

    Rather than continuing to focus on applying 'culturally appropriate' responses to indigenous disadvantage, we should focus ... Read More

  3. Progress is possible in remote Aboriginal lands

    Sara Hudson | 02 Jan 2013 | The Australian

    It is possible to make a real difference in remote Aboriginal communities, provided there is genuine commitment and engagement.... Read More

  4. Better schooling, not uni quotas

    Sara Hudson | 02 Oct 2012 | The Australian

    LARISSA Behrendt's recent report recommends doubling the proportion of indigenous students at universities. Only 1.09 per ... Read More

  5. What Price friends?

    Sara Hudson | 23 May 2012 | ON LINE Opinion

    Price has been called a puppet because of her support of the intervention, but it is hard to argue with what she wants for ... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. A tale of two houses

    Helen Hughes AO 1928 - 2013, Mark Hughes | 24 May 2013

    For years, excuses have been used to hide the discriminatory state and federal policies that deny individual property rights ...

  2. Education is key for Aboriginal Australia

    Nigel Parbury | 24 May 2013

    This budget is further evidence that governments remain addicted to spending, and that is why it is time for TARGET30....

  3. Funding students based on Indigeneity demeaning and wasteful

    Helen Hughes AO 1928 - 2013, Mark Hughes | 03 May 2013

    The Labor government continues to ignore the overwhelming evidence that funding is not a principal constraint on Indigenous ...

  4. The phantom coup and poll-driven politics

    Benjamin Herscovitch | 28 Mar 2013

    Pointing the finger at the apparent shortcomings of Australia’s political culture is a convenient explanation for the recent ...

  5. Don’t blame corporate sector for low Indigenous employment

    Sara Hudson | 22 Mar 2013

    Look to education rather than blaming the corporate sector for low Indigenous employment....

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