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Closing the Gap

May

A family-owned fishing charter business in operation.

The great success story of Indigenous enterprise is missing

Indigenous businesses have proven robust and resilient against all the odds – that should be included in the Closing the Gap reports as well.

  • Michelle Evans and Cain Polidano

March

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been speaking about funding UNRWA.

Albanese pledges $4b for Indigenous housing

Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney will visit the NT on Tuesday to announce a major package for remote homes.

  • Tom McIlroy

February

The Dhupuma Barker School Djirikitj Firebirds placed 40 in their division of 80 schools at the 2023 VEX Robotics World Championships in Texas.

How a tiny NT school became an exemplar for Indigenous education

The town of Gunyangara, 11 hours east of Darwin, decided to take education into its own hands. The results have been stunning.

  • Julie Hare
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the National Apology to the Stolen Generations in Canberra on Tuesday.

Federal Labor leaves Indigenous treaties to the states

The government will pursue the creation of a Makaratta commission for Indigenous truth-telling, but won’t negotiate a national treaty agreement.

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  • Tom McIlroy
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney.

Indigenous jobs reboot to replace Abbott-era program

Federal Labor will tear up the national Indigenous employment program, with new rules expected to create 3000 jobs over three years. 

  • Tom McIlroy
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Former Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt embraces his then Labor opposite number Linda Burney after the Prime Minister’s Closing the Gap statement to parliament in 2020.

‘Bureaucratic gobbledegook’ holding up Closing the Gap

Indigenous policy researcher Michael Dillon says state and federal governments are flooding their Closing the Gap reports with a ‘grab bag’ of information.

  • Gus McCubbing

October 2023

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses a community event supporting the Yes23 campaign, in Queanbeyan, NSW, on Sunday.

Albanese will walk away from Voice if voters say No

The prime minister says Labor would not seek to create a Voice to parliament through legislation if voters reject the proposal in Saturday’s referendum.

  • Tom McIlroy
On 14 October, Australians have a simple choice.

Voting Yes is about constitutional recognition to get better outcomes

If we’re going to shift the dial on the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes, we have got to do something different.

  • Katy Gallagher

August 2023

The latest Productivity Commission report shows all governments struggling to make the fundamental changes needed to give indigenous communities their voice.

What a TV link to a remote community taught me about good government

The latest Productivity Commission report shows all governments struggling to make the fundamental changes needed to give Indigenous communities their voice.

  • Tom Burton

June 2023

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney.

Only four of 19 Closing the Gap targets on track

Most of Australia’s 19 Closing the Gap targets on Indigenous disadvantage are not on track, new Productivity Commission data released on Thursday shows.

  • Tom McIlroy

March 2023

Professor Marcia Langton

Voice to help curb Indigenous ‘misery fest’

Senior Indigenous leaders cried as Anthony Albanese called on Australians to support the Voice to parliament, describing it as a force for change.

  • Tom McIlroy
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with indigenous leaders during a press conference at Parliament House on Thursday.

PM goes ‘all in’ on the Voice referendum

The Albanese government is struggling to achieve bipartisan support for the Indigenous Voice to parliament.

  • Tom McIlroy
Economic independence is the key to real self-determination for Indigenous Australians, according to 36-year-old Make It Happen founder Adele Peek.

The sisters who want to kickstart Indigenous entrepreneurship

First Nations entrepreneurs are almost non-existent in the Australian business landscape, but sisters Adele and Cara Peek plan to change this. 

  • Gus McCubbing

February 2023

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says he failed to grasp the significance of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the stolen generations.

Dutton sorry for boycotting national apology to stolen generations

The Opposition Leader used the 15th anniversary of the national apology to urge Labor to bring undecided Australians along on the push for an Indigenous Voice.

  • Tom McIlroy

July 2020

National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation chief Pat Turner and Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt

Closing the Gap reform fails justice test: campaigners

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says addressing entrenched Indigenous disadvantage is a task for all Australians. Activists have slammed to latest efforts at reform as not going far enough.

  • Tom McIlroy
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Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt and Pat Turner, of the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations,.

Out-of-home care and child detention added to Closing the Gap targets

After more than a decade of failure and backwards steps, federal and state governments have agreed to the first Indigenous-led reform of the targets.

  • Tom McIlroy
The Black Lives Matter movement has been growing in Australia.

National cabinet Closing the Gap reset looms

Federal and state leaders could sign off next week on the first major change to Indigenous disadvantage targets in a decade.

  • Tom McIlroy
Indigenous leader and co-chair of the joint ministerial council Pat Turner with Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt.

Closing the gap progress can't take 73 years: Ken Wyatt

The Indigenous Australians Minister slams proposals for parity in rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in jails by 2093, saying targets decades away won't deliver real change.

  • Tom McIlroy

June 2020

Closing the Gap

Push to lift criminal age of responsibility to 14

State and federal attorneys-general will consider increasing the age, a push supported by groups including the Australian Medical Assocation.

  • Tom McIlroy

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