Australia's peak Indigenous and non-Indigenous health bodies, NGOs and human rights organisations are working together to achieve equality in health and life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Click on the link to find out more and access the annual reports.
The report outlines Elder, community and health worker perspectives on community-led solutions to reduce suicide completions in the community. The two cases studies discuss the communities’ situations and factors that reduced suicide completions within each community. The authors aim to increase understanding of the impacts of colonisation and ‘outsider-led’ interventions to develop models and processes for community-led solutions to complex situations.
The Report contains 47 recommendations including a First Nations-led review of higher education, for Government consideration and aims to create a long-term reform plan for the higher education sector to meet Australia’s future skills needs.
This seminal Review examined the role of higher education in closing the gap and reducing Indigenous disadvantage, and recommends a collaborative approach by Government, universities and professional bodies to increasing the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, staff and researchers.
The Barometer is a national, biennial survey that measures attitudes towards reconciliation across five domains - race relations, equality and equity, unity, institutional integrity, and historical acceptance.
A collaborative study between Reconciliation Australia and UNSW’s Indigenous Land and Justice Research Group School of Humanities & Languages, the research sought answers through a literature review, media survey, online surveys and in-depth interviews. Findings include important considerations for the planning and delivery of effective truth-telling initiatives; as well as uncovering what motivates First Nations and non-Indigenous people to get involved.
