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Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Implementation review of the Family Responsibilities Commission : Final Report

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Authors: Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Publishers: Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, KPMG, Queensland Department of Communities

The Family Relationships Commission (FRC), a project of the Cape York Welfare Reform, holds conferences with individual community members who are welfare recipients and who have been identified as failing […]

Indigenous Family Safety Agenda: Future Directions in Indigenous Family Safety: A Statement by the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

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Authors: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

This agenda responds to high rates of family violence affecting Indigenous families and communities, and the call for preventative invested initiatives employing local Indigenous skills, better police presence and better […]

Indigenous Remote Service Delivery Special Account: 2010-2011 Report

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Authors: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

The Indigenous Remote Service Delivery (IRSD) Special Account aims to: support high priority projects in remote Indigenous communities in the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery; develop, promote, assist […]

Occasional Paper No.19: Lessons learnt about strengthening Indigenous families and communities: Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2000-2004

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Authors: Scougall, John
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

The Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2000-2004 was an Australian Government initiative funded by the Department of Family and Community Services to help build family and community capacity to deal […]

Occasional Paper No.20: Stories on ‘growing up’ from Indigenous people in the ACT metro/Queanbeyan region

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Authors: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

This paper presents a summary of the information collected during FaHCSIA’s community engagement qualitative trial undertaken in the Australian Capital Territory metropolitan region and the Queanbeyan region as part of […]

Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution: Report of the Expert Panel

Resources Jan,2012

Authors: Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Current mulitparty support has created a historic opportunity to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of Australia, to affirm their full and equal citizenship, and […]

Report on the Northern Territory Emergency Response Redesign Consultations

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Authors: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

From May to September 2009, the Australian Government conducted extensive consultations with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory about future directions for the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER). In its […]

Review of the Substance Abuse Intelligence Desks and Dog Operations Units

Resources Oct,2011

Authors: Putt, Judy
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

First established in 2006 in Alice Springs, the Substance Abuse Intelligence Desk (SAID) has expanded over the past five years to include Dog Operation Units (DOUs) and funding for additional […]

Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory: Discussion Paper

Resources June,2011

Authors: Australian Government
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

This discussion paper, from the Australian Government, sets out priorities for building on the work of the National Territory Emergence Response (NTER) and identifies directions for reform, particularly to improve […]

The Cost of Violence against Women and their Children

Resources Mar,2009

Authors: National Council to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children
Publishers: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

In May 2008 the Government established an 11-member national council which was tasked to provide the Government with advice on the development of an evidence-based national plan of action to […]