Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012... Read More
Submission to the COAG Select Council on Disability Reform on NDIS ‘eligibility and reasonable and necessary support’ criteria.... Read More
Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee... Read More
By ending the raft of current discriminatory, costly and ineffective Indigenous education policies, the New South Wales Coalition Government has the opportunity to ensure all Indigenous children starting...... Read More
Australia has a serious problem in low participation in higher education by students from low socio-economic backgrounds. Indigenous children from urban welfare dependent families, just like non-Indigenous...... Read More
Should local government be recognised in the Constitution? And would such recognition make a practical difference? International experience suggests that constitutional recognition alone does not determine...... Read More
The Discussion Paper’s focus on participation and employment in remote Indigenous communities is welcome because it distinguishes remote communities from the majority of Aborigines and Torres Strait...... Read More
Submission to the Indigenous Sub-committee of the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Services Provision. 2011 Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage or Perpetuating Indigenous Disadvantage?... Read More
Governments state that their objective is for Indigenous townships to develop and prosper like mainstream Australian towns. This will not happen without mainstream policies. The ‘priorities’ listed...... Read More
Part 1 of this submission shows that incorrect data and lack of analysis on Indigenous home ownership continues to mislead policy development. It has resulted in government policies that make it impossible...... Read More
The Native Title process is only one of the processes returning land to traditional owners. The lack of benefits to the Indigenous landowners from the process, however, is due to policies that affect all...... Read More
Communities in the Northern Territory and in other native title areas need to have private property rights if they are to have real economies, with the retail facilities of other small Australian towns. ... Read More
The priorities for the NZ government should be: Reduce the corporate rate to 30% Reduce the top personal rate to 30% Reduce the other relevant rates (trusts, fringe benefit tax etc) to 30% Move...... Read More
We currently employ a bigger proportion of the working-age population (70%) than ever before. Nevertheless, to increase participation in paid employment even further, we would need both to increase the...... Read More
Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities 2008. The findings of this research indicate that while the original intentions of CDEP may have been admirable,...... Read More