By Hon Prof Vivienne Milligan, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published at Pearls and Irritations, John Menadure’s Public Policy Journal. In discussions of the upcoming referendum on establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, a question often raised is how will it make a difference? This has been difficult for advocates to address because instances […]
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Embedding Indigenous advice in government policy key to real change
September 8th, 2023 · No Comments · Government, Housing, Indigenous
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Inquiry into integrated housing support for vulnerable families
October 13th, 2020 · No Comments · Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Indigenous
By kylie valentine, Kyllie Cripps, Kathleen Flanagan, Daphne Habibis, Chris Martin and Hazel Blunden. This is an edited extract from the executive summary of the AHURI Inquiry Report. Read the executive summary, the full report and the policy evidence summary here. Domestic and family violence (DFV), mental illness and problematic alcohol and other drug use […]
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Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing
September 20th, 2019 · No Comments · Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Indigenous, Law, Wellbeing
By Kyllie Cripps, Scientia Felllow and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law UNSW Sydney, and Daphne Habibis, Associate Professor, University of Tasmania. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In Western Australia more than half the children placed in state care are Aboriginal. The state government committed this […]
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Healthy built environments – considerations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
August 21st, 2019 · No Comments · Indigenous, Wellbeing
By Professor Susan Thompson, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published in New Planner – the journal of the New South Wales planning profession – published by the Planning Institute of Australia. For over 60,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoyed a remarkably harmonious relationship with the natural environment that provided all their physical and spiritual needs, keeping them […]
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