The Clearinghouse produces publications to inform policy makers and service providers.
Resource sheets
Resource sheets summarise the evidence collected on narrowly defined issues.
- Improving indigenous community governance through strengthening indigenous and government organisational capacity [835KB PDF] [342KB RTF]
- Healthy lifestyle programs, for physical activity and nutrition [776KB PDF] [175KB RTF]
- Effective practices for service delivery coordination in Indigenous communities [1.3MB PDF]
- Early childhood and education services for Indigenous children prior to starting school [452KB PDF]
- Closing the school completion gap for Indigenous students [338KB PDF]
- Teacher and school leader quality and sustainability [338KB PDF] [246KB RTF]
- Reducing alcohol and other drug related harm [677KB PDF] [100KB RTF]
- Anti-tobacco programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people [338KB PDF] [198KB RTF]
- Pathways for Indigenous school leavers to undertake training or gain employment [407KB PDF]
- Community development approaches to safety and wellbeing of Indigenous children [450KB PDF]
Issues papers
Issues papers are a comprehensive review of a large body of literature that determines the overall breadth of the evidence on a specific topic.
- School attendance and retention of Indigenous Australian students [497KB PDF]
- School readiness: what does it mean for Indigenous children, families, schools and communities? [531KB PDF] [468KB RTF]
Annual papers
Key documents
Closing the Gap Clearinghouse presentation (1.50MB PPT)
Terminology
Indigenous: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Indigenous are used
interchangeably to refer to Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait
Islander peoples. The Closing the Gap Clearinghouse uses the term
‘Indigenous Australians’ to refer to Australia’s first people. This term
refers to ‘Aboriginal Australians’ and ‘Torres Strait Islander people’.