Project Description

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First Nations

How can Australia reach a more equitable and just future for First Nations people?

    Adverse Childhood Experiences: Pathways to better policy and practice with First Nations

    12 February 2025

    The Adverse Childhood Experiences model lacks a First Nations lens. Focusing on early interventions and culturally safe, community-led strategies, as well as enhanced data collection, would improve health equity.

    Shakeel Mahmood

  • Children in crisis need real relationships: the case for a child connection system

    Jarrod Wheatley

  • The five building blocks that nurtured Sharee’s Strong Spirit

    Jasmine Miller and Colina Reuben

  • Self-determining “Indigenous employment”

    Nareen Young and Joshua Gilbert

More articles

  • Upstream and downstream strategies to close the gap in criminal justice

    It’s 32 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. While progress has been slow – and in some cases retrograde – there is a path to better outcomes for Indigenous people if they are empowered to lead policy responses.

    Krystal Lockwood and Heron Loban

  • A real partnership with First Peoples is key to Closing the Gap

    Governments at all levels need a new mindset which places Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander shared decision making at the centre of policy development, design and delivery.

    Pat Turner