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under 14","description":"Redirect funds from detention to ACCO-led family support, health, disability and education responses for children who would otherwise be charged.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 18"},{"issue_id":"kb-001","issue":"Raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Track the effect of raising the age with community indicators","description":"Co-design indicators with ACCOs (school connection, family wellbeing, contact with police) so communities can show what happens when children are diverted rather than charged.","lead":"Kowa / Wathaga","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"ciet"},{"issue_id":"kb-002","issue":"Ending youth detention and over-use of remand","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Make detention a genuine last resort again","description":"Restore last-resort and bail-presumption principles for children, and reverse \"adult time\" sentencing changes that conflict with children's rights.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 412"},{"issue_id":"kb-002","issue":"Ending youth detention and over-use of remand","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Shift detention capital budgets to prevention","description":"Redirect funds earmarked for new youth prisons into early intervention, family support and diversion run by Aboriginal community-controlled organisations.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 18"},{"issue_id":"kb-002","issue":"Ending youth detention and over-use of remand","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Fund community bail and supported accommodation","description":"Resource ACCO-run bail support and safe housing so children are not remanded simply because they have nowhere stable to go.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (bail support and diversion programs cited in SJR p. 419)"},{"issue_id":"kb-002","issue":"Ending youth detention and over-use of remand","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Philanthropic co-investment in youth-led diversion","description":"Co-fund multi-year, Aboriginal-led youth programs and mentoring with flexible money that governments can later scale.","lead":"Philanthropy and business","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"evaluation evidence (justice reinvestment, SJR p. 430)"},{"issue_id":"kb-003","issue":"Safe detention: OPCAT oversight and no solitary confinement","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Legislate enforceable national detention standards","description":"Pass Commonwealth legislation giving effect to OPCAT and the Mandela Rules, with enforceable minimum standards for all places of detention.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 rec 18"},{"issue_id":"kb-003","issue":"Safe detention: OPCAT oversight and no solitary confinement","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Designate and fund preventive mechanisms","description":"Every jurisdiction should designate, fund and empower an independent inspection body and adopt the Commission's OPCAT road map.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 402"},{"issue_id":"kb-003","issue":"Safe detention: OPCAT oversight and no solitary confinement","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Ban solitary confinement and spit hoods for children","description":"Prohibit isolation of children and the use of spit hoods in law, with public reporting of any restrictive practice.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 rec 18"},{"issue_id":"kb-003","issue":"Safe detention: OPCAT oversight and no solitary confinement","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"First Nations-led visiting and monitoring","description":"Fund Aboriginal community organisations and Elders to visit detained young people and feed observations into independent inspection reports.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"evaluation evidence (community visitor schemes)"},{"issue_id":"kb-004","issue":"Ending adult over-incarceration and remand","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Reform bail and remand settings","description":"Review bail laws so lack of housing or money is not a reason for remand, and fund bail accommodation and support delivered by Aboriginal organisations.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 397"},{"issue_id":"kb-004","issue":"Ending adult over-incarceration and remand","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Tie Commonwealth justice funding to reducing incarceration","description":"Make Commonwealth funding to states conditional on showing spending is reducing incarceration and building community-based alternatives.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 15"},{"issue_id":"kb-004","issue":"Ending 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sentencing options for mothers)"},{"issue_id":"kb-005","issue":"First Nations women and the justice system","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Women-led healing programs on Country","description":"Support Aboriginal women's organisations to run healing and reintegration programs designed by women with lived experience.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 16"},{"issue_id":"kb-006","issue":"Preventing deaths in custody and independent investigations","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"ALRC inquiry into custody death investigations","description":"Refer an inquiry to the Australian Law Reform Commission on best-practice police and coronial investigations, national minimum standards and a national investigative mechanism.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 rec 19"},{"issue_id":"kb-006","issue":"Preventing deaths in custody and independent investigations","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Independent complaint process for families","description":"Create an independent, culturally safe pathway for families to raise concerns about investigations and to be kept informed.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 19"},{"issue_id":"kb-006","issue":"Preventing deaths in custody and independent investigations","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Implement coronial recommendations with public reporting","description":"Require agencies to respond publicly to every coronial recommendation on a custody death and report progress until it is implemented.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 426"},{"issue_id":"kb-006","issue":"Preventing deaths in custody and independent investigations","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Family-led support and advocacy","description":"Fund Aboriginal organisations to support families through inquests and to lead community responses after a death.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (family support in inquests, SJR p. 204 discussion of Black witnessing)"},{"issue_id":"kb-007","issue":"Equal health care for people in custody","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Open Medicare and PBS to people in custody","description":"Grant the ministerial exemption or legislative change needed so people in custody can access Medicare services and PBS medicines.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 rec 17"},{"issue_id":"kb-007","issue":"Equal health care for people in custody","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"ACCHO in-reach into prisons","description":"Contract Aboriginal community-controlled health services to deliver primary and mental health care inside prisons and youth detention.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 425"},{"issue_id":"kb-007","issue":"Equal health care for people in custody","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Continuity of care on release","description":"Link people leaving custody to an ACCHO before release, with medicines and appointments in place.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (throughcare models)"},{"issue_id":"kb-008","issue":"Fair policing and police accountability","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Independent police complaints bodies","description":"Establish civilian oversight bodies with power to investigate police conduct, including First Nations investigators and culturally safe intake.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 89"},{"issue_id":"kb-008","issue":"Fair policing and police accountability","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Anti-racism audits of police services","description":"Apply the National Anti-Racism Framework to policing through external audits, de-escalation training and published results.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 14"},{"issue_id":"kb-008","issue":"Fair policing and police accountability","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Community patrols and local justice groups","description":"Resource community-controlled night patrols and justice groups as first responders that reduce unnecessary police contact.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (community patrols and law and justice groups)"},{"issue_id":"kb-008","issue":"Fair policing and police accountability","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Publish policing data by Indigenous status","description":"Report stops, searches, move-on orders, charges withdrawn and use of force by Indigenous status so communities can test fairness.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 12"},{"issue_id":"kb-009","issue":"Independent monitoring of Royal Commission and justice commitments","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Create an independent RCIADIC and Closing the Gap monitor","description":"Establish and resource an independent function to audit, publicly report on and escalate non-compliance with Royal Commission and justice commitments.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 18"},{"issue_id":"kb-009","issue":"Independent monitoring of Royal Commission and justice commitments","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Use funding levers for justice outcomes","description":"Build justice-target performance requirements and consequences into Commonwealth funding agreements with states.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 15"},{"issue_id":"kb-009","issue":"Independent monitoring of Royal Commission and justice commitments","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Strengthen the Justice Policy Partnership","description":"Give the Closing the Gap Justice Policy Partnership access to audit findings and authority to recommend redirection of funds.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 427"},{"issue_id":"kb-009","issue":"Independent monitoring of Royal Commission and justice commitments","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Community scorecards on justice commitments","description":"Support communities to publish their own scorecards on local implementation of justice commitments.","lead":"Kowa / Wathaga","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 127"},{"issue_id":"kb-010","issue":"Justice reinvestment and community-led alternatives to custody","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Make justice reinvestment funding long term","description":"Move national justice reinvestment funding from short grants to ten-year, indexed commitments with community control of design.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 18"},{"issue_id":"kb-010","issue":"Justice reinvestment and community-led alternatives to custody","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Fund alternatives to custody on Country","description":"Co-fund residential healing and alternative-to-custody programs designed by Traditional Owners, with a path to full local management.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 434"},{"issue_id":"kb-010","issue":"Justice reinvestment and community-led alternatives to custody","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Philanthropy as patient, flexible capital","description":"Provide multi-year backbone funding for local justice reinvestment teams so they can hold data, convene partners and outlast political cycles.","lead":"Philanthropy and business","horizon":"long term","basis":"evaluation evidence (justice reinvestment backbone models)"},{"issue_id":"kb-010","issue":"Justice reinvestment and community-led alternatives to custody","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Community-owned data for justice reinvestment","description":"Give each site shared, community-governed data tools to track local indicators and reinvestment returns.","lead":"Kowa / Wathaga","horizon":"now","basis":"ciet"},{"issue_id":"kb-011","issue":"Cognitive disability, FASD and the justice system","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"End indefinite detention of people found unfit to plead","description":"Repeal laws allowing indefinite detention and provide supported community placements instead.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 399"},{"issue_id":"kb-011","issue":"Cognitive disability, FASD and the justice system","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Community-led early assessment","description":"Fund community-designed screening and diagnosis for FASD and cognitive impairment from early childhood, linked to family support.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 429"},{"issue_id":"kb-011","issue":"Cognitive disability, FASD and the justice system","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Keep NDIS supports during custody","description":"Allow NDIS supports to continue in detention and on release so people are not left without help at the most critical time.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 114"},{"issue_id":"kb-011","issue":"Cognitive disability, FASD and the justice system","theme":"Justice, policing and safety","solution":"Disability screening in custody","description":"Introduce routine disability screening at police custody and prison reception, with health information available to courts.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 429"},{"issue_id":"kb-012","issue":"Supporting families instead of removing children","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Shift funding to family support and early help","description":"Direct child protection budgets toward ACCO-led prevention, practical financial and housing support, and intensive family support.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 18"},{"issue_id":"kb-012","issue":"Supporting families instead of removing children","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Transfer authority to Aboriginal organisations","description":"Delegate statutory decision-making and case management for First Nations children to community-controlled agencies, with matching resources.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"long term","basis":"evaluation evidence (delegated authority models, Family Matters reporting)"},{"issue_id":"kb-012","issue":"Supporting families instead of removing children","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Review risk assessment tools for bias","description":"Independently audit decision-making tools for racial bias and redesign them with First Nations practitioners.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 410"},{"issue_id":"kb-012","issue":"Supporting families instead of removing children","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Family-led decision-making","description":"Make Aboriginal family-led decision-making available to every family before removal is considered.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (Aboriginal family-led decision-making programs)"},{"issue_id":"kb-013","issue":"Applying the Child Placement Principle in full","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Legislate all five elements of the Principle","description":"Embed prevention, partnership, placement, participation and connection in child protection law with compliance reporting.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"evaluation evidence (SNAICC Child Placement Principle guidance)"},{"issue_id":"kb-013","issue":"Applying the Child Placement Principle in full","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Independent Commissioners for First Nations children","description":"Establish or strengthen dedicated commissioners with powers to audit placements and permanency decisions.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 291"},{"issue_id":"kb-013","issue":"Applying the Child Placement Principle in full","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Kinship carer support","description":"Fund ACCOs to find, assess and support kinship carers on par with foster care allowances.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (kinship care support programs)"},{"issue_id":"kb-013","issue":"Applying the Child Placement Principle in full","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Cultural connection plans led by family","description":"Ensure every child in care has a cultural plan developed with family and community and reviewed regularly.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 rec 16"},{"issue_id":"kb-014","issue":"Family safety led by communities","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Long-term funding for community-controlled family violence services","description":"Fund ACCO family violence and healing services through multi-year, needs-based agreements under the national family safety plan.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 10"},{"issue_id":"kb-014","issue":"Family safety led by communities","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Keep victim-survivors and children together","description":"Change child protection practice so the response to family violence is safety support for mother and child, not removal.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 407"},{"issue_id":"kb-014","issue":"Family safety led by communities","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Men's healing and cultural programs","description":"Resource men's groups and healing on Country led by Aboriginal men and Elders.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 16"},{"issue_id":"kb-014","issue":"Family safety led by communities","theme":"Children, families and child protection","solution":"Community-defined safety measures","description":"Develop safety indicators with women's groups to fill the national data gap on family violence.","lead":"Kowa / Wathaga","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"ciet"},{"issue_id":"kb-015","issue":"Culturally safe health care and strong ACCHOs","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Needs-based, long-term ACCHO funding","description":"Replace program grants with needs-based, indexed, long-term core funding for ACCHOs, including for workforce and evaluation.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 10"},{"issue_id":"kb-015","issue":"Culturally safe health care and strong ACCHOs","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Accountable cultural safety in mainstream health","description":"Require hospitals and health services to report on cultural safety and racism using measures set with First Nations health organisations.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 128"},{"issue_id":"kb-015","issue":"Culturally safe health care and strong ACCHOs","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Fund Aboriginal liaison and health worker roles","description":"Expand Aboriginal health liaison officers and health workers across hospitals and specialist services.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 120"},{"issue_id":"kb-015","issue":"Culturally safe health care and strong ACCHOs","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Grow the First Nations health workforce","description":"Invest in training pathways from school into nursing, allied health and medicine, delivered with ACCHOs.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"long term","basis":"evaluation evidence (community-controlled workforce pathways)"},{"issue_id":"kb-016","issue":"Chronic disease and services in regional and remote areas","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Dialysis and treatment closer to home","description":"Fund community-based dialysis and outreach specialist services, plus patient travel and accommodation that covers carers.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 121"},{"issue_id":"kb-016","issue":"Chronic disease and services in regional and remote areas","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Housing as rheumatic heart disease prevention","description":"Pair health-hardware repairs and overcrowding reduction with ACCHO screening programs.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"evaluation evidence (environmental health and RHD prevention)"},{"issue_id":"kb-016","issue":"Chronic disease and services in regional and remote areas","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Allocate by need, not remoteness alone","description":"Use need-based formulas for regional health funding so non-remote communities with high need are not overlooked.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 133"},{"issue_id":"kb-016","issue":"Chronic disease and services in regional and remote areas","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Local health workforce pipelines","description":"Train and employ local people as health workers, drivers and practitioners through ACCHOs.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"long term","basis":"evaluation evidence (community-controlled workforce models)"},{"issue_id":"kb-017","issue":"Suicide prevention and social and emotional wellbeing","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Community-led suicide prevention funding","description":"Fund regional, community-controlled suicide prevention and postvention, governed through the social and emotional wellbeing partnership.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 10"},{"issue_id":"kb-017","issue":"Suicide prevention and social and emotional wellbeing","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Invest in healing and cultural connection","description":"Resource cultural camps, healing programs and intergenerational learning on Country as wellbeing infrastructure.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"long term","basis":"sjr2025 rec 16"},{"issue_id":"kb-017","issue":"Suicide prevention and social and emotional wellbeing","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Aftercare that is culturally safe","description":"Link everyone leaving hospital after a suicide attempt to an Aboriginal-led aftercare service.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (culturally safe aftercare models)"},{"issue_id":"kb-017","issue":"Suicide prevention and social and emotional wellbeing","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Measure cultural determinants of wellbeing","description":"Co-design wellbeing measures that include connection to culture, Country and kin, alongside clinical indicators.","lead":"Kowa / Wathaga","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"ciet"},{"issue_id":"kb-018","issue":"Disability rights and an NDIS that works for First Peoples","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Community-controlled NDIS navigation","description":"Fund ACCOs and First Nations disability organisations to deliver local planning support, navigation and plain-language information.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 113"},{"issue_id":"kb-018","issue":"Disability rights and an NDIS that works for First Peoples","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Recognise culture and Country as reasonable supports","description":"Update NDIS guidelines so cultural participation and access to Country can be funded where they support the person's goals.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 131"},{"issue_id":"kb-018","issue":"Disability rights and an NDIS that works for First Peoples","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Apply UNDRIP and the CRPD together","description":"Include CRPD and UNDRIP tests in compatibility statements for disability laws and policies.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 13"},{"issue_id":"kb-018","issue":"Disability rights and an NDIS that works for First Peoples","theme":"Health, wellbeing and disability","solution":"Grow First Nations disability providers","description":"Support Aboriginal-run disability services in thin markets through block or capacity funding.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"evaluation evidence (thin-market commissioning)"},{"issue_id":"kb-019","issue":"Strong starts: early childhood education and development","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Secure funding for Aboriginal early years services","description":"Provide ongoing, needs-based operational funding to ACCO early learning and family centres instead of time-limited program grants.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 rec 10"},{"issue_id":"kb-019","issue":"Strong starts: early childhood education and development","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Integrated child and family hubs","description":"Co-locate early learning, maternal and child health, and family support in community-controlled hubs.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"evaluation evidence (integrated early years hubs)"},{"issue_id":"kb-019","issue":"Strong starts: early childhood education and development","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Culturally grounded developmental assessment","description":"Work with ACCOs to interpret AEDC results alongside community measures of cultural strength and family wellbeing.","lead":"Kowa / Wathaga","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"ciet"},{"issue_id":"kb-019","issue":"Strong starts: early childhood education and development","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Philanthropic support for early years sector capability","description":"Fund ACCO-led early years workforce training and governance through long-term partnerships.","lead":"Philanthropy and business","horizon":"long term","basis":"evaluation evidence (early years sector development)"},{"issue_id":"kb-020","issue":"Ending disproportionate suspension and exclusion from school","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Set reduction targets for exclusionary discipline","description":"Publish suspension and expulsion data by Indigenous status in every jurisdiction and commit to reducing disproportion.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 rec 5"},{"issue_id":"kb-020","issue":"Ending disproportionate suspension and exclusion from school","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Trauma-informed and disability-aware schools","description":"Fund therapeutic staff, Aboriginal education officers and disability support so behaviour is met with help rather than exclusion.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 122"},{"issue_id":"kb-020","issue":"Ending disproportionate suspension and exclusion from school","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Community-run alternative and re-engagement learning","description":"Resource ACCO and Indigenous-led schools and programs for students the mainstream system has not served well.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 5"},{"issue_id":"kb-020","issue":"Ending disproportionate suspension and exclusion from school","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Family and Elder involvement in behaviour decisions","description":"Require schools to involve family and Aboriginal staff or Elders before any long suspension or exclusion.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"evaluation evidence (culturally responsive school discipline)"},{"issue_id":"kb-021","issue":"Culturally safe, Indigenous-led schooling and truth in the curriculum","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Embed Indigenous-designed learning models","description":"Adopt Indigenous-designed, personalised learning in mainstream systems and fund community-controlled education bodies and Indigenous-led schools.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 5"},{"issue_id":"kb-021","issue":"Culturally safe, Indigenous-led schooling and truth in the curriculum","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Truth-telling across the curriculum","description":"Develop local history and language content with Traditional Owners for every school.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 rec 4"},{"issue_id":"kb-021","issue":"Culturally safe, Indigenous-led schooling and truth in the curriculum","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Wraparound supports at school","description":"Provide meals, transport and family liaison so children's basic needs do not block learning.","lead":"States and territories","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 123"},{"issue_id":"kb-021","issue":"Culturally safe, Indigenous-led schooling and truth in the curriculum","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Elders and cultural educators in classrooms","description":"Pay Elders and community educators for their teaching time through school partnerships with local ACCOs.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"now","basis":"sjr2025 p. 122"},{"issue_id":"kb-022","issue":"Pathways into further education, training and work for young people","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Long-term funding for proven pathway programs","description":"Commit multi-year funding to culturally safe school-to-career programs that have demonstrated results.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 123"},{"issue_id":"kb-022","issue":"Pathways into further education, training and work for young people","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Community-controlled training providers","description":"Support ACCO and Indigenous-owned registered training organisations linked to local jobs.","lead":"ACCOs and communities","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 125"},{"issue_id":"kb-022","issue":"Pathways into further education, training and work for young people","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Industry partnerships with paid placements","description":"Employers and universities co-design paid cadetships and internships with First Nations organisations.","lead":"Philanthropy and business","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"evaluation evidence (cadetship and internship programs)"},{"issue_id":"kb-022","issue":"Pathways into further education, training and work for young people","theme":"Early years, education and learning","solution":"Track pathways in community terms","description":"Follow young people's transitions with consent and community-agreed indicators, not only enrolment counts.","lead":"Kowa / Wathaga","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"ciet"},{"issue_id":"kb-023","issue":"Secure, culturally safe employment","theme":"Economic participation and self-determination","solution":"Longer funding cycles to end insecure jobs","description":"Move First Nations service funding to five-year-plus terms so organisations can offer permanent employment.","lead":"Commonwealth","horizon":"1–3 years","basis":"sjr2025 p. 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