South Islander, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

Regional and remote Aboriginal housing is not able to withstand climate change and will be unsuitable for future living, forcing people to consider migrating away from their traditional lands if nothing is done, research says.
This research explores what is required for sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia to deliver positive health and wellbeing outcomes for householders, so that housing stock is maintained at high levels over time and is designed with climate change challenges in mind.
The Guddi Protocol shows promise as a culturally safe and appropriate method to identify complex disability in Murri Court participants, and contributes to more effective sentencing responses, which could ultimately reduce recidivism and prison overcrowding. Research into the gaps in housing for ATSI young people is needed.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations aged 50 and over research finds show that the Stolen Generations aged 50 and over are more likely to be worse off than other Indigenous Australians of the same age on a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes. These results are consistent with a previous Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW 2018a) report which analysed a similar set of outcomes for the Stolen Generations aged 50 and over from an earlier 2014–15. survey.
This report, collated by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, provides contemporary evidence of the ‘gap within the gap’. It shows that Stolen Generations survivors aged 50 and over are more likely to be worse off than other Indigenous Australians of the same age on a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes.

It is widely recognised that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have been sustained for millennia by a holistic conception…

This AHURI study investigated the needs of Indigenous women and children who are severely over-represented in rates of domestic and family violence (DFV).
Cairns Homelessness Evaluation Mission Australia recently released our evaluation of Mission Australia’s Cairns Homelessness Services The full report and infographic are available here: