Research in Australia as in other colonised societies has linked a collapse of traditional Indigenous institutions and roles to contemporary patterns of destructive behaviour, such as heavy alcohol consumption by […]

Examination of Aboriginal help-seeking behaviour for family violence can provide critical insights to developing appropriate responses. This paper examines attitudes and experiences regarding help-seeking by Aboriginal people affected by family […]

Australia’s rising imprisonment rates and the use of prisons as a social policy tool are examined. Factors for this rise could be: increasing criminal justice budgets; competition between political parties […]

This is a useful introductory resource highlighting the need for a government policy response to Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). FASD may be more prevalent in indigenous communities due to […]

The Final Report was tabled by government in the Australian Parliament on 29 September 2023. The Royal Commission has made 222 recommendations on how to improve laws, policies, structures and […]

This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the implementation, operation and outcomes of the North Queensland Drug Court pilot program for 26 months from its inception in 2002. […]

The final report on the South East Queensland Drug Court is the second of three reports that will form the basis of the evaluation of the South East Queensland Drug […]

From April to December 2019, EMS Consultants completed a process and outcomes evaluation of the Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community Program delivered by The Torch to assess the implementation, […]

Federal Government funding was provided for the Youth in Communities (YIC) program for 2009/10 – 2011/12 under the Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory National Partnership Agreement. The YIC […]

First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children and Youth: Time to Act provides a portrait of Aboriginal peoples from the perspective of the communities and social connections on which children and […]