The Sources Behind the Work

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peak bodies that co-designed and co-govern the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.

Watch Joint statements, partnership communiqués, responses to each July data release from the Productivity Commission, and submissions to the Commission’s second review of the National Agreement.

The national peak body for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs).

Watch Policy submissions, sector statements, and the annual report.

The national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families, providing evidence and policy leadership.

Watch The annual Family Matters report on child protection outcomes, plus policy submissions through the year.

The national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services, advocating on justice and legal rights.

Watch Justice policy submissions and statements on custody, policing, and youth justice.

A long-standing national advocacy organisation running policy-focused campaigns and public education.

Watch Campaign launches, explainer resources, and parliamentary submissions.

The community-controlled national body for communities working in justice reinvestment, governed by a wholly Aboriginal board.

Watch Its newsletter, and progress at the Commonwealth-funded justice reinvestment sites, including Cherbourg, Townsville, Mornington Island, and Minjerribah in Queensland.

The national lead body for reconciliation, with transparent programs, research outputs, and the Reconciliation Action Plan framework.

Watch The Australian Reconciliation Barometer every two years, RAP program reporting, and National Reconciliation Week each 27 May to 3 June.

Queensland's reconciliation organisation, offering training, a state network, and practical resources.

Watch Training dates, new resources, and state reconciliation events.

The independent statutory authority hosting the official Closing the Gap information repository, including the dashboard and full data downloads.

Watch The Annual Data Compilation Report and a major dashboard update each July; the sixth report arrived on 29 July 2026. New data also lands on the dashboard through the year as underlying collections report. The Commission’s second review of the National Agreement takes initial submissions until 26 October 2026, releases a draft report in April 2027, and delivers its final report to the Joint Council by 28 August 2027.

The official targets page for the National Agreement, linking each target to the Productivity Commission's progress assessments.

Watch The Commonwealth Closing the Gap Annual Report and Implementation Plan each February; the latest, the 2025 Annual Report and 2026 Implementation Plan, appeared on 12 February 2026.

The national health and welfare data authority, with comprehensive and method-transparent reporting on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and welfare.

Watch New and updated reports released on a rolling schedule through the year.

The national statistics agency, and the primary source for Census data and for population, health, and justice statistical releases.

Watch The Census runs every five years; Census night fell on 11 August 2026, with first results due in June 2027, a second release in October 2027, and further releases into 2028.

The whole-of-system indicator framework used for policy-grade monitoring, reporting 68 measures across health outcomes, determinants, and health system performance.

Watch Rolling updates to individual measures, with the summary report refreshed at the same time; the 11 June 2026 release updated seven measures, and a New South Wales report followed on 30 July 2026.

My evidence brief on youth detention in Queensland, 2024–25: every figure traced to its official table, with the calculation behind it, the Senate’s 2026 recommendations weighed, and the community-controlled organisations to back.

Watch Each January release of the Report on Government Services, which updates the detention, self-harm, and cost figures.

The Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee’s report, tabled 18 September 2026, with four recommendations and the evidence of young people with lived experience of detention. Download the report (PDF).

Watch The Government’s response to the four recommendations, and any referral of the further inquiry the committee recommended.

The statutory inspector, within the Queensland Ombudsman, that examines youth detention centres, prisons, and watch houses. Its combined report on the 2025 inspections of all three youth detention centres records that 60 per cent of children at West Moreton, 62 per cent at Brisbane, and 90 per cent at Cleveland identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Watch Inspection reports as the Inspector completes them, and the Ombudsman’s annual report to Parliament.

The statutory commission legislated to assess the performance of Queensland’s child protection system. Its reports carry youth justice data, including the number of children held in police watch houses.

Watch The annual report, tabled in Parliament, and the Queensland Child Rights Report.

The Court’s annual report to Parliament, with data supplied by the Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support: unsentenced detention, remand stays, First Nations detention rates, and Serious Repeat Offenders.

Watch Each year’s report, which the President of the Court presents to Parliament.

Queensland’s official statistician. Its annual Crime report, Queensland, drawn from police records, counts each offender once a year and gives youth and adult offender rates across an eleven-year series.

Watch Each year’s Crime report, Queensland, and its youth offender tables.

The statutory council that publishes sentencing data, research, and advice to the Queensland Government, guided by its own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Panel. Its Sentencing DataHub reports custodial sentences for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Watch Sentencing Round-up and Sentencing @ a Glance releases through the year, DataHub updates, and the annual report.

The national monitoring program established in response to Recommendation 41 of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, with data reaching back to 1980.

Watch The real-time dashboard updates as notifications arrive; the quarterly dashboard follows about two months after each quarter closes; the annual report provides verified figures.

The national human rights body, providing guidance on rights, discrimination complaints, and the work of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.

Watch Social Justice Commissioner reports and inquiry outputs as tabled. The Social Justice Report 2025, which reached Parliament on 24 June 2026, sets the current agenda through its 25 recommendations and its Blueprint for a fair and just future; the Government has yet to respond.

The independent Commonwealth statutory commission for First Nations children, in force since 1 July 2026. National Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter can hold inquiries, hold governments to account, and recommend change.

Watch Its first inquiries, with child protection and youth justice named as early priorities, and its first annual report, covering 2026–27.

The Queensland statutory human rights body, with complaint pathways and culturally specific guidance, including A Guide for Mob.

Watch Guidance updates, decisions under the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld), and annual reporting.

The national institution for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections, research, and authoritative explainers, with strong governance and ethics protocols.

Watch New explainers and collection releases through the year, and the annual AIATSIS Summit.

The state museum's First Nations programs, with education-ready content and dedicated initiatives.

Watch Exhibitions, education programs, and First Nations initiative announcements.

First Nations communities co-created and approved this education platform, which equips teachers to embed First Nations perspectives in the classroom and returns revenue to those communities as a social enterprise.

Watch New curriculum units and community partnerships.

The official website of Queensland’s Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry, which commenced on 1 July 2024 with a three-year term and which the incoming government abolished on 29 November 2024, five months in, by repealing the Path to Treaty Act 2023. The site survives as a Crown record: a notice records the Inquiry’s end, much of the site still describes its work in the present tense, and its Learn and discover page gathers the state’s own history resources in one place. The Inquiry released its website material under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. An archived copy from 6 July 2026 protects the citation if the domain lapses.

Watch Decommission risk. The site states that the Inquiry’s records pass to Queensland State Archives, and government websites of abolished bodies rarely persist; the archived copy then becomes the citation.

Victoria’s formal truth-telling commission ran its full course and presented its final reports to Parliament on 1 July 2025: Yoorrook for Transformation and the Official Public Record, Yoorrook Truth be Told. State Library Victoria now maintains the site and holds the record in trust for the public. Beside Queensland’s record, it shows what a completed inquiry delivers.

Watch Victorian Government action on the Commission’s recommendations, and truth-telling under Victoria’s Statewide Treaty.

The state library collects, preserves, and shares the documentary heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Queensland. Its interactive languages map traces the more than 100 languages and dialects once spoken across the state, of which around 50 remain and fewer than 20 survive as first languages, and its First Nations languages blog documents revival work in progress.

Watch New collection guides, language map updates, and family history workshops through the year.

The state’s official archive holds the government’s own records of the Protection Acts era, a dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, and the Frontier Wars research project, which documents colonial violence from departmental files.

Watch Newly opened records each year and additions to the Frontier Wars project.

The national organisation, governed by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander board and advised by a Stolen Generations Reference Group, that works with Stolen Generations survivors and their descendants. Its 2025 report, Are You Waiting for Us to Die?, found that governments had enacted only 6 per cent of the Bringing Them Home recommendations in 28 years.

Watch Progress on its From Sorry to Action plan for 2026 to 2028, and statements each 13 February, the anniversary of the National Apology, and each 26 May, National Sorry Day.

The state abolished its inquiry; the community kept telling the truth. The Mitchelton Library Truth-Telling series, coordinated by Linda Harnett and Rosalie Raciti, gathers monthly on Yuggera and Turrbal country, and its site archives sixteen speakers and counting across three years, including three who also testified before the abolished Inquiry, with their testimony records linked.

Watch Each month’s session and new additions to the speaker archive.

Australia's national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing research, with strong governance and a knowledge translation focus.

Watch Research reports and discussion papers through the year.

The statutory body administering the native title registers and related information services.

Watch Register updates and claim notifications continue throughout the year; the registers record claims, determinations, and Indigenous land use agreements.

Report 144, Fulfilling the Promise of Mabo, which reached Parliament on 24 June 2026 with 86 recommendations to reform the future acts regime of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth): the rules for mining, development, and other acts that affect native title.

Watch The Government’s response to the 86 recommendations.

The registered native title body corporate for the Quandamooka People, recognised through the Federal Court’s consent determinations of 4 July 2011. It manages native title, cultural heritage, and land and sea programs across Quandamooka Country.

Watch The annual report, and cultural heritage and land and sea management notices.

The Queensland peak body for community-controlled health organisations, leading policy and sector development.

Watch Policy submissions and sector reports.

The Queensland peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child protection and family support services, representing 38 community-controlled organisations, and Queensland’s Youth Justice Peak since May 2024.

Watch Practice resources, policy responses on child protection reform, and submissions to Parliament on youth justice legislation.

The primary community-based Indigenous legal service provider across Queensland, offering practical help and advocacy. The 24/7 Legal Assistance Hotline is 1800 012 255.

Watch Service announcements and advocacy outcomes; the hotline operates around the clock.

National Indigenous storytelling and news, reported from an Indigenous editorial perspective within SBS.

Watch Daily coverage, and often the fastest signal for developments the official dashboards report only later.

The national Aboriginal newspaper, published since May 1991 and wholly owned by five Bundjalung community organisations in northern New South Wales. AIATSIS holds it as a featured collection, which makes its back issues a research record.

Watch Each fortnightly edition, and news online between editions.