The final report of the Productivity Commission’s first three-yearly review of government action on the agreement finds that governments around Australia have failed to fully grasp the nature and scale of change required to meet the obligations they signed up to.

This publication aims to provide a comprehensive outline of the current health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The early sections present information about the social and cultural context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, social determinants, the structure of the population, and measures of population health including births, deaths and hospitalisations.

Culture plays a significantly protective role in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ individual, and community lives. This paper reflects on the history of advocacy for cultural safety in Australia, clarifies how cultural safety training and education differs from other types of cultural training, propose a revised set of nationally consistent quality standards for cultural...

This report presents an evidence review on Aboriginal-led early support programs and services to improve the wellbeing of Aboriginal children, young people and families available across Australia, or for specific communities in one or more states.

This report delivers a set of recommendations providing a pathway towards achieving the National Agreement on Closing the Gap's goals. Key among these is a call to implement the four Priority Reforms in all jurisdictions, which would include addressing recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s 2024 Closing the Gap review.

This inquiry report finds that South Australia is unnecessarily removing disproportionate and growing numbers of Aboriginal children from their families and communities, causing long term harm to their health, wellbeing and life chances, when they could be responding in a more child-family centred and culturally-responsive way.

The 2023 annual report assesses the Commonwealth’s delivery against actions outlined in the 2023 implementation plan. The 2024 implementation plan is forward looking, outlining the Commonwealth’s strategic priorities for Closing the Gap over the next year.

Drawing from extensive consultations from diverse populations including those with metropolitan, rural, and remote backgrounds, this report serves as a foundational document for the development of a National Anti-Racism Framework, focusing on the most prolific forms of racism experienced by First Nations peoples across Australia.

The findings outlined in this report provide further evidence on the effectiveness of healing programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing and/or using family violence. This report highlights the urgent need for sustainable, long-term funding for healing programs conceived of and led by First Nations people.

This inquiry was established to investigate the higher than population average statistics of missing and murdered First Nations women and children in Australia. The final report of the inquiry, running since November 2021, makes ten recommendations.