Chair of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, told Q&A that $30 billion is spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia. Is that right?
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We have an ever-increasing number of children and families facing complex challenges and we know next to nothing about who they are and how they are doing.
Sarah Hanson-Young told Q&A that Indigenous children are currently ten times more likely to be living out of home. Is that right?
Many young people in jail suffer fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Diagnosing these before sentencing will establish the most appropriate path for these vulnerable offenders, which often isn’t jail.
Q&A presenter Tony Jones asked psychologist and research fellow Pat Dudgeon if Indigenous youth suicide rates across the top half of Australia are the highest in the world. We check the research evidence.
A new generation of Indigenous youth is being separated from their families and culture – this time by the force of criminal law that ignores the proven alternative of community-based justice.
Most people reasonably assume there is evidence of good long-term outcomes for children who come into contact with child protection systems. Why else would we intervene in the lives of children and their…
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…
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…
Why do young people drop out of school? Many factors influence this critical decision. These include the cost of education (think rising fees, cost of transportation, materials, textbooks and uniforms…
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Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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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, Arney Chong Consulting and Positive Futures Research, University of South Australia
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health and Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, University of Sydney
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Indigenous Research, University of Newcastle
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Professor, Director Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit, Monash University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Indigenous policy analyst & researcher, Australian National University
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Monash University
