Pat Turner Archives

Minister tries to map path to boost vaccine rates among Indigenous Australians

By Melissa Coade

Community & Social

First Nations stakeholders met with Ken Wyatt on Friday to identify ways to build community trust about being vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. …

New Closing the Gap targets aim to up number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages spoken, reduce incarceration and suicide rates

By Shannon Jenkins

Community & Social

All state and territory governments have signed up to the targets set out by the historic National Agreement on Closing the Gap.

Governments must improve engagements with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to ensure they are comprehensive and transparent, report finds

By Shannon Jenkins

Community & Social

The engagements aimed to discover what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people believe should be included in the new national agreement on Closing the Gap.

Wyatt signals new approach to Closing the Gap

By Shannon Jenkins

Community & Social

Failures and achievements in improving outcomes for Indigenous Australians have been highlighted in the lead up to the release of the annual Closing the Gap…

New Closing the Gap agreement due mid 2020

By Shannon Jenkins

Community & Social

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia have had their say on a new national agreement on Closing the Gap. The Coalition of Aboriginal…

Charles Perkins House, the new name for the old ‘home of Indigenous affairs’

By Stephen Easton

Federal

In a fitting tribute, the building where Indigenous affairs policy is developed was renamed Charles Perkins House last week, in honour of the celebrated anti-discrimination…

After 50 years of Indigenous affairs, 'We need to do better'

By Stephen Easton

Community & Social

50 years on from the referendum that made Indigenous affairs a Commonwealth concern, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's new deputy secretary, Professor…

Indigenous evaluation? We’ve got that right here: land council

By Stephen Easton

Features

Indigenous program evaluation isn't as absent as some in government may believe. Public service boss Martin Parkinson's call for better evidence sparked a land council…

Indigenous bureaucrats could foster self-determination

By Stephen Easton

Features

First Australians can overcome the tyranny of the majority and wrest back self-determination, leaders argue. When armed with facts and fire in the belly, Pat…

Redfern Statement calls for indigenous leaders in an indigenous department

By Harley Dennett

News

A former deputy secretary of PM&C is among those calling for Indigenous Affairs to be removed from the coordinating agency and returned to a standalone…