'Concerning': Closing the Gap off track before deadline

'Not good enough': pleas to act on Indigenous targets

Indigenous women and children are at risk as the nation falls woefully behind Closing the Gap targets because...

Closing the Gap's damning 'warning' for children

Australia has met just one target addressing Indigenous disadvantage and in some areas the gap will widen rather...

Closing the Gap is failing, yet again. Is it time we do away with it altogether?

The Conversation, CC BY-SAEvery year, the Productivity Commission reports on the progress state and federal governments are making towards closing the gap in the gross inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous lives. Every year, these governments fail. For many indicators, the gap actually gets worse. This year is no exception. The new data show just four of the 19 targets are being met or are on track to be so. Of the nine targets that a…

'Concerning': Closing the Gap off track before deadline

Australia has met just one target addressing Indigenous disadvantage and in some areas the gap will widen rather than close, the productivity commission warns.

NT Aboriginal groups accuse CLP of 'weaponising' Closing the Gap funding

Aboriginal groups have renewed calls for the Commonwealth to overhaul its funding arrangements with the Northern Territory government, accusing the Country Liberal Party of "weaponising" federal Indigenous disadvantage funding against Aboriginal Territorians.

‘Concerning’: Closing the Gap off track before deadline

Just one of 19 targets that address Indigenous disadvantage has been met ahead of a looming deadline, a damning report reveals. At the halfway mark of the 2031 Closing the Gap agreement, First Nations pre-school enrolments are the sole target being met nationally while four key areas are getting worse. Of the 19 identified socio-economic areas targeted to close the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, only three are on tr…