May
- Opinion
- Indigenous justice
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
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
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
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.
- Updated
- Tom McIlroy
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
‘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
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
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
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
- Opinion
- Government Observed
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
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
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
- Updated
- Voice to parliament
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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