Organisations from the Northern Territory have responded to the latest Closing the Gap data which showed 14 of 19 metrics are not on target, arguing the government needs to "step away from business-as-usual and invest in First Nations led solutions".

On Wednesday, the latest Annual Data Compilation Report (ADCR) found progress towards four Closing the Gap targets were worsening, including Indigenous adults in incarceration, Indigenous children in out-of-home care (OOHC), and First Nations people dying by suicide.

Indigenous-led organisation Children's Ground said the findings were "deeply concerning," and showed governments' "unwillingness to genuinely relinquish and share power".

"The latest Closing the Gap data deepens the erosion of trust between First Nations communities and government," Children's Ground chair William Tilmouth said.

"Governments talk about doing things differently, and the strong recommendations from the Productivity Commission tell them to fundamentally rethink their ways of working, and all the while First Nations people are still waiting.

"While we wait, our children aren't meeting early development targets and are being taken away from families and held in out-of-home care, and our people are being thrown into prisons and the rates of suicide grow."

Catherine Liddle, the chief executive of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) and co-convenor of the Coalition of Peaks, echoed these sentiments, telling ABC TV the government needed to better as "screaming from the rooftop for ages" by Indigenous organisations isn't working.

"You see those datasets that again reinforce what we heard even at the beginning of the year, and that is governments are not moving fast enough on this, it's frustrating," Ms Liddle said.

She said a fresh approach wasn't needed, highlighting the success of ACCOs, who instead needed more support to help Indigenous communities.

"It's not about finding a new pathway – certainly that's not what the productivity commission is saying. It's saying: share the decision-making – this is common-sense, governments talking to the people about the issues that impact them, and the solutions to solve that," Ms Liddle said.

The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) condemned the latest data, with the Territory recording the worst results of any Australian jurisdiction — eight out of 17 targets are actively worsening.

This includes suicide, which was leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 to 39 in 2022 and has gotten worse since the baseline year.

AMSANT chief executive, John Paterson said the latest data showed in many areas, governments were not delivering on their promise to "address the poor health, poverty and discrimination that our people continue to suffer due to the historical and continuing processes of colonisation".

"The unacceptably high rate of suicide among Aboriginal people, and particularly our young people – who are more likely to go to jail and more likely than in previous years to die by suicide – should be urgently prioritised by all governments," Dr Paterson said.

He mirrored Ms Liddle and Mr Tilmouth in arguing governments also needed to "fundamentally change the way that they work with Aboriginal leaders, organisations and communities" to allow proper power sharing and support of community-controlled services.

"The disappointing results emphasise the need for government to transform the way that they are working with our people," Dr Paterson said.

"We need to keep working together to make sure that all government action – whether in health, education, housing, or other areas – reflects the values of sharing power and giving Aboriginal people a voice, as demanded by the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.

"Collaboration of this kind is never easy, but these results demand action and demand more from all governments and for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people."

Speaking on Thursday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese conceded "governments have not done well enough in the past", but argued his government was committed to change.

"My government is committed to closing the gap, working with Indigenous communities, listening to Indigenous communities across the full range of issues," the Prime Minister said.

"The challenges are there. You cannot resolve intergenerational inequity overnight but what you can do is be committed to making a difference. My government is.

"Quite clearly governments of all persuasions at all levels have not done well enough in the past but we are committed to working with those communities and also, of course, working with the private sector as well to make a difference."