The Australian Public Service is one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Yet Indigenous people make up just 1.2% of its senior ranks.
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The Aztecs had a shining city on a lake, with canals, causeways and aqueducts – until the Spanish came. Mexico City is still suffering the consequences of their bad public health decisions.
Policies for Indigenous Australians must better reflect and prioritise Indigenous cultural values.
Indigenous procurement policies are kicking goals, but who for?
Governments have relied on a series of employment programs to tackle the employment gap, but these have not yielded positive outcomes.
What may appear to be slow progress or steady outcomes for the whole Indigenous population may be masking worsening results.
What are the issues facing rural and regional Australia? The challenges are many and varied – and only some have made the national political agenda – but these areas deserve better than neglect.
Tony Abbott spent most of this week in North East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
Tony Abbott is spending this week in North-East Arnhem Land, part of his long-held hope “to be not just the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”. We asked our experts: what stories…
The Creating Parity report on Indigenous employment and welfare, released last week by mining magnate Andrew Forrest, is in much the same vein as Tony Shepherd’s recent Commission of Audit. Forrest and…
A few years ago in a quiet corner of Sydney’s Redfern Community Centre, I interviewed a young Aboriginal man, Scott, about his life for a research project. Like many of his contemporaries he grew up in…
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Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Research associate, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin 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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Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Associate professor, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Public Health; Head of School, Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Project Officer – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Injury, George Institute for Global Health
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ARC DECRA Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Memphis
