A Fair and Just Future for First Peoples
Social Justice Report 2025
Summary
This report is built directly on what we heard from more than 1,600 First Peoples across the country. It reflects their lived experience, challenges, strengths and vision for the future.
A Fair and Just Future for First Peoples
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About the report
The report highlights the work Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and organisations are leading and implementing across the country.
It asserts that without comprehensive rights-affirming structures and protections, the tipping point required to close the gap will remain out of reach.
The report includes a Blueprint for a fair and just future for First Peoples and 25 recommendations. Together they:
- set out a vision where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can fully and freely exercise and enjoy their human rights and where they are supported by systems that uphold self-determination, dignity and equality
- provides a pathway for governments to move beyond rhetoric, to act with integrity, and to ensure the strength, courage and determination of First Peoples is met with structural reform and genuine accountability.
This is the first report by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss and was tabled in the federal parliament by the Attorney-General on 24 June 2026.
When communities design, govern and lead our own solutions, we thrive. Governments must move beyond rhetoric and work in genuine partnership with us.
The Blueprint
The Blueprint provides a pathway for change which involves systemic reform at all levels of government and community, and First Peoples-led action facilitated by our governing bodies and organisations.
It envisages a fundamentally different relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the state. In this new state, governments are key stakeholders and enablers, but their role is one of facilitator, guided by the aspirations and objectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
25 Recommendations
The report's 25 recommendations were developed in response to the voices of all those who participated in the Informing the Agenda project and build on the work of 30 years of Social Justice Commissioner research and reports.
Resources
Community Guide
Includes the Blueprint, chapter summaries and the 25 recommendations.
Quick reference guide
A 2-page overview for media.
Media release
You can read the media release from the report launch on 26 June 2026.