This article reports on the High Court hearing of the Blue Mud Bay case in early December 2007. The legal question tested in this case is whether Northern Territory fishers […]

This paper provides background information about the best ways of increasing the number of high quality foster and kinship carers in the Northern Territory (NT) by considering: what characteristics of […]

This report details the findings of an inquiry by the Select Committee on Youth Suicides in the Northern Territory into the high rate of youth suicide in the Northern Territory […]

Whilst sexual assault and child abuse within the Northern Territory Aboriginal communities receives the most attention from the media and from government programs, it is the lower level-type offending that […]

The objective of the audit was to assess the administrative effectiveness of FaHCSIA’s management of the GBM initiative, and the extent to which the initiative has contributed to improvements in […]

While there was some general positive response to the level of political and resource commitment to addressing Indigenous health issues that the Northern Territory Emergency Response represented, many were concerned […]

The Northern Territory has a relatively young population, spread across a large jurisdiction, with very high rates of sexual crimes and a disproportionate representation of Aboriginal youth as both victims […]

Following an evaluation of the impact of increased police presence in 18 communities, this report examines how to improve policing services and extend these services to more communities. It involved […]

Since 2011 the Indigenous Australians with Mental Health Disorder and Cognitive Disability (IAMHDCH) Project, based at the University of New South Wales, has been investigating the life course pathways of […]

This paper is based on the observation that when an Aboriginal person speaks some English, lawyers often overestimate their capacity to be fairly interviewed in English. The paper explores the […]