Australia is missing the Closing the Gap employment target by decades
Australia is on track to meet its ‘Closing the Gap’ employment target, but more than a decade late.
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How can the new Closing the Gap dashboard highlight what indicators and targets are on track?
The Closing the Gap dashboard includes data on the 17 socioeconomic targets in the national agreement. But this information isn’t enough on its own to bring real change.
Local solution to Closing the Gap – council takes pioneering new approach to Indigenous disadvantage
Tamworth Council is the first to sign a Close the Gap agreement with local Aboriginal groups. Could it be a template for other regional areas to follow?
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gap
The 2016 Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report shows a bleak picture on progress on Indigenous employment and little improvement in school attendance.
Chelsea Bond: The ‘new’ Closing the Gap is about buzzwords, not genuine change for Indigenous Australia
The latest Closing the Gap agreement has been billed as ‘historic’ and ‘practical’. But the fine print is vague and the targets lack ambition. Meanwhile, one key word is missing completely.
Closing the Gap in education report card: needs improvement
This year’s update on Closing the Gap presents a picture similar to 2014 in education - there is much work still to be done to improve educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students…
Indigenous affairs: close the gap, but open the conversation
The sixth annual Closing the Gap statement, delivered to federal parliament earlier this week, had the same message as previous years. There is some progress, some regress and more work needed to achieve…
Closing the gap, or making it wider? Putting a value on Indigenous jobs
Among all the school payments and defence cuts, last week’s federal budget also quietly committed an additional $5.2 billion to the government’s Closing the Gap program. It’s a vote of faith from the government…
We have 16 new Closing the Gap targets. Will governments now do what’s needed to meet them?
The revamped Closing the Gap agreement is a significant achievement for Indigenous organisations. But we need more detail about who will be responsible for what.
VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Victoria, aged care, and ‘Closing the Gap’
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon.
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