Indigenous services

The review exposes systemic failures affecting Indigenous women and calls for Indigenous-led research, stronger data, accountability and human rights-based reform. 

This report uses the lived experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to show that involvement with the criminal legal system is shaped by systemic bias.

This paper reviews evidence for evaluating Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing programs and argues that best practice must be Indigenous-led and culturally grounded.

This paper presents two historical case studies from the Kimberley region where Aboriginal families, facing systemic injustice, reclaimed agency through community-led action.

Read a research paper from doctoral candidate Barbara Bynder that examines how Indigenous research methodologies are understood and applied within Australian academia.

Read about research aimed at determining the potential of vocational education and training (VET) for sustainable employment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This paper introduces an approach called “Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis” (ICPA), a framework for assessing public policies and processes from an Indigenist standpoint.

This study explores the resettlement experiences of Torres Strait Islanders who moved to the Australian mainland.

This article outlines the framework used by Community First Development, a national First Nations–led community development and research organisation.

This article discusses how a research team's methodology moved from a Western model of ‘doing’ research to decolonisation as an evolving methodological journey with Country.

This study explores how a university can serve as a site of positive personal transformation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. 

This article describes Yawardani Jan-ga (“Horses Helping” in Yawuru language), an initiative supporting Aboriginal children and young people through equine-assisted learning.

This article seeks to understand who Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children select as role models, and the reasons underlying these choices.

A 2024 review examining how the ATSISPEP framework has shaped Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide prevention policy and national reform.

The Health and Well Being of First Nations Younger People in Australia's Prisons.

Read a report on the challenges that marginalised groups (First Nations Peoples, newly arrived migrants and people with disabilities) face while volunteering. 

The themes of this year’s report are Progressing Voice, Treaty, and Truth; Leadership and Governance; and Building our Economies.