Here is a brief summary of what we are doing and why.
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The more examples we can offer as evidence of what’s working and why, the better for making the points that government must work with the communities, and failures occur when this doesn’t happen. We need to counter the widespread damaging myth, promoted by media reporting that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders continue to have problems because nothing that is being done is working.
These ‘failures’ are then used to justify policies and practices that repeat past mistakes and ignore the evidence of what does work. So we need your help to identify examples and evidence of the many programs that do work because they are run by and with Indigenous people.

We have three categories:
1. What’s working now- successful projects that are run/controlled by Indigenous people
2. What was working – (until it was defunded or ran out of funds); projects like those above that were working well till policy changes (like CDEP) and/or short term funding closed them down.
3. Good work! – that acknowledges good stuff that happens in government Departments or other non Indigenous organisations that involve Indigenous decision making.

So, if you know about some projects that fit the categories, go to the contact us page on the website and give us as much detail as you have, in particular contact details for the project.