The research presented seeks to understand the reasons Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees opt to leave the Australian Public Service (APS). The paper also raises important implications for strategies that aim to increase rates of Indigenous employment in the APS.

The latest ABS report on Indigenous people in the workforce confirms an ongoing trend of low participation. Our research shows that non-standard recruitment agencies, more education and ongoing mentoring and support are key to improving these disappointing statistics.

This paper reviews literature related to the intersectionality of gender and educational attainment, with a special focus on the circumstances surrounding the Australian Indigenous population. Using two sources of data, the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we conducted difference-in-difference analyses to better understand differences by gender...

By linking censuses through time or by combining other information with the census, many more important policy questions can be answered than if we used one dataset alone. Summary Former Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) head Bill McLennan renewed the debate over privacy, data linkage and the census when he recently spoke of the major...

This evaluation report provides insights into early implementation and initial outcomes of Work for the Dole 2014-15.