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Take a look at how the political parties stack up on indigenous affairs. Crikey’s Andrew Crook and CPD researcher Julia Hosking trawl through the parties’ pre-election policies.

With incomplete reporting and many Closing the Gap goals not on track, is the policy really working? Professor Jon Altman of the ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research reports.

Crikey readers weigh in.

The release of the Our Land, Our Languages report could be the start of a new era for Australia’s rich and remarkable indigenous languages. Greg Dickson of Crikey blog Fully (sic) reports.

The fifth anniversary of the NT intervention was supposed to be “liberation” day for prescribed communities now supposedly “stabilised, normalised and exited”. Instead it was another day of shame, says Jon Altman.

Global evidence suggests that stronger futures for Aboriginal people will require more self-determination, writes professor Jon Altman of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.

Evidently, the Australian government is keen to assure Aboriginal people living on outstations and homelands that they will receive access to power, water and sewerage and road maintenance, as well as garbage collection, writes Jon Altman, an anthropology research professor at ANU.

A juggernaut is a force that is regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable. For many this is an apt metaphor for the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory bills, writes professor Jon Altman, of ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.

I have never been comfortable with pick-a-number policy making for indigenous Australia, writes professor Jon Altman, of ANU’s Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.

Julia Gillard is continuing to achieve legislative wins even as her prime ministership expires. The tumbrel rolls ever on.

Why do so few of the media reporters actually ask the Aboriginal demonstrators why they are so angry with being told to change tactics?

Outstations/homelands (the terms can be used interchangeably) represent a service delivery headache for the state, but this is mainly due to unimaginative policy approaches, writes Professor Jon Altman.

It is four years this month since the Mal Brough emergency intervention in the NT and today the PM goes to Alice Springs to see the “progress” supposedly being made.

Next year in the Closing the Gap Report, we want to learn about what the government has been doing to show respect for Aboriginal people and their views and values, write Des Martin, CEO of the Aboriginal Health Council of WA and Gavin Mooney, a health economist

With all the talk about “closing the gap” between mainstream and Aboriginal health and life-expectancy outcomes in this country, the Shalom Gamarada scholarship program is a good start, writes Bob Gosford.

Tthe Australian government might have exacerbated the expansion of the Indigenous unemployment gap, report Professor Jon Altman and Dr Nicholas Biddle.

The Secretary General of Amnesty International has likened conditions in Central Australia to the poorest parts of Africa and Asia, and described the gap between rich and poor in this country as the most stark she’s even seen.

In a lecture for Reconciliation Australia, Koori Mai Editor Kirstie Parker talks about the role that Australia’s media can play in helping to Close the Gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

The latest, and arguably most comprehensive findings, on progress in the Northern Territory intervention are damning of its effectiveness and extremely disappointing, says Jon Altman.