Social Policy Group

Indigenous Affairs Resources

Commonwealth Government Administrative Arrangements for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
Commonwealth Government Programmes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Directories
Statistics
Indigenous Issues
Parliamentary Library Publications and E-briefs
International Resources

Commonwealth Government Administrative Arrangements for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

• Commonwealth Government Indigenous Affairs Policy
  

Department Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

• Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC)

• Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations

• Indigenous Coordination Centres (ICCs) operate in 30 locations around Australia. They look after most Australian Government programs for Indigenous people and negotiate Shared Responsibility Agreements (SRAs).
  
  

Council of Australian Governments trials

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is sponsoring trials of a whole-of-government approach to Indigenous services at eight sites around Australia.

National Indigenous Council (NIC)

Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs

Commonwealth Government Programmes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Education

Department of Education Science and Training (DEST)

• Indigenous Education
  

Employment and Economic Development

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR)

• Indigenous Employment Programmes

• Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) Programme

• Indigenous Business Development

• Indigenous Business Australia
  

Health

Health and Ageing

• Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH).

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programmes
  

Housing

Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS)

• Indigenous Housing

• Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP)

• Aboriginal Hostels Limited
  

Environment and Heritage

Department of Environment and Heritage

• Indigenous Heritage Program

• OIPC Repatriation Program
  

Land and Native Title

• OIPC Native Title Program

• OIPC Land Rights Program

• National Native Title Tribunal

• Native Title Representative Bodies

• Indigenous Land Corporation
  

Art, Culture and Languages

Department of Communications, Information Technology and Arts (DCITA)

• Indigenous Programs

Australia Council

• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts
  

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Sport

Australian Sports Commission

• Indigenous Sport Program

Department of Communications, Information Technology and Arts (DCITA)

• Indigenous Sport and Recreation Program
  

Law, Justice and Human Rights

Attorney-General's Department

• Indigenous Law and Justice

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
  

Social Security, Families, Women and Children

Department of Family and Community Services

• Indigenous Policies and Programs

• Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children
  

Centrelink

• Indigenous Australians
  

Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination

• Indigenous Women's Development Program

• Indigenous Women's Program
  

Torres Strait

• Torres Strait Regional Authority

State and Local Government

• New South Wales: Department of Aboriginal Affairs

• Victoria: Aboriginal Affairs Victoria

• Queensland: Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy

• Western Australia: Department of Indigenous Affairs

• South Australia: Department for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation

• Tasmania: Office of Aboriginal Affairs

• Northern Territory: Office of the Chief Minister

• Australian Capital Territory: Office of Aboriganal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs

Australian Local Government Association - Indigenous Issues

Government Indigenous portal to Indigenous services and information sources located on government internet sites.

Directories of Organisations, Commonwealth and Businesses

• The Australian Government Directory Indigenous Services has contact details of Indigenous organisations listed under various categories

• The Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations  has a listing of all Aboriginal community groups by State or Territory including contact details.

• On-line Indigenous Business and Community Services Directory

Statistics

• Australian Bureau of Statistics Indigenous statistics and feature articles

• Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Summary of Indigenous Health Status

• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

• Productivity Commission, Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, Key Indicators
  

Indigenous Issues

Education

• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Website (NATSIEW)
  

Health

• Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

• National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
  

Language and Tribal Groups

• Aboriginal Australia (map of language groups)

• Aboriginal Languages of Australia

• Aboriginal Tribes of Australia - Norman B. Tindale's catalogue

• List of Language bibliographies compiled from the AIATSIS Library collections - available for printing or downloading.

• AIATSIS Language and Place Thesaurus
  

Land and Native Title

• Native Title Research Unit - AIATSIS

• Central Land Council

• Northern Land Council

• Native Title Research Unit

Law

• Indigenous Law Centre - UNSW Faculty of Law

• Indigenous Peoples and the Law - Parliamentary Library

• Timeline of Legal Developments Affecting Indigenous People - AUSTLII

Media

• Koori Mail

• National Indigenous Times

• ABC Indigenous Online Message Stick

• ABC Indigenous news online

• National Indigenous Radio Service
  

Policy and Research

• Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)

• Commonwealth Grants Commission Indigenous Funding Inquiry

• Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership
  

Reconciliation and Social Justice

• Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families

• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Archive

• HREOC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice page

• Reconciliation Australia

• Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)

Parliamentary Library Publications and E-briefs

Identifiable Commonwealth Expenditure on Indigenous Affairs and portfolio/program rearrangements, 2001 to 2005 Not available outside the Parliamentary computer network

Indigenous Broadcasting E-brief

ATSIC Review: Complex Challenges, No Simple Solutions Research Note 5/03-04

Make or Break? A Background to the ATSIC Changes and the ATSIC Review Current Issues Brief 29/02-03

Defining Aboriginality in Australia Current Issues Brief 10/2002-03

Indigenous Flags and Days Research Note 4/2002-03

Mabo: Ten Years On E-brief

The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and Indigenous Peoples 1901-1967

Indigenous Socioeconomic Indicators, Benefits and Expenditure Research Paper Online

The Definition of Aboriginality Research Note 18/2000-01

Mandatory Sentencing links and chronology from the Criminal Law Resources page

Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Icon or Eyesore? Chronology 3/1999-00

The Protection of Indigenous Rights: Contemporary Canadian Comparisons Research Paper 27/1999-00

Indigenous Religion in Secular Australia Research Paper 11/1999-00

From Dispossession to Reconciliation Research Paper 27/1998-99

Indigenous Affairs in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States of America, Norway and Sweden Background Paper 15/1997-98

The Origin of Commonwealth Involvement in Indigenous Affairs and the 1967 Referendum Background Paper 11/1996-97

International Resources

• Aboriginal Canada Portal

• Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

• Te Puni Kokiri - Ministry of Maori Development

• Bureau of Indian Affairs - US Department of the Interior

• Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development

• Center for World Indigenous Studies

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World

• Indigenous Peoples and the Law

• International Law and Legislation

• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)

• United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous People 1995-2004

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