The price of 30 essential items in 76 remote community stores across Australia will be the same as in cities and warehouse capacity boosted to make remote community supply chains less vulnerable.

The announcements will be part of the Prime Minister's Closing the Gap speech he will deliver to Parliament on Monday and comes after his government's $842.6 million pledge over six years to the Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Investment to fund services like policing, women's safety, education and alcohol harm reduction.

Mr Albanese's speech will note that whilst the latest Productivity Commission report shows improvements on 11 of the 19 targets in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, only five are currently on track to be met.

"No nation's story is simple, least of all Australia's," a preview of the Prime Minister's speech says.

"It is a rich, proud, and deeply remarkable story – a story of hope, achievement, and survival against the odds.

"Our stories are intertwined – but as the Closing the Gap report routinely lays bare, there are still too many areas in which we are not together.

"It's about living the reality of the fair go."

The announcement of more affordable items in remote community stores, as well as shortening freight distances and making supply chains to remote communities less vulnerable comes as consumer advocacy organisation Choice found on average, household groceries are twice as expensive in remote areas as they are in capital cities.

"The resulting food insecurity can have serious health impacts, including cardiovascular and kidney disease," the PM will say.

"We will also build on the success of the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation's Nutrition Workforce initiative, which trains First Nations shop staff to promote good nutrition.

"We will bring that program to more communities."

The government has been criticised by some Indigenous organisations for not doing enough to implement a Makarrata Commission as set out in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, with the PM last year saying PM his government will not create a national commission to lead "truth-telling" about First Nations history.

Criticism has also come surrounding a perceived lack of federal action on a youth incarceration crisis which has exploded across the country and led to the establishment of an inquiry to investigate youth corrections systems nationwide.

Writing in National Indigenous Time on the one year anniversary of the Voice defeat, Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, acknowledged the discrepancies in some metrics between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people across the country.

"Far more needs to be done but I am optimistic that we can make a difference if we back up our commitments with firm action," she said.

There remains an argument from some the government hasn't received the credit it deserves for investing in areas largely forgotten by previous governments, with the Coalition's attacks about meaningful action so far not backed up with any investment promises of their own.

The government has committed significant investment into Indigenous communities - especially across the NT and WA - focussing on housing, jobs, and restorative justice.

The $707 million Remote Jobs and Economic Development (RJED) program aims to create 3,000 jobs in remote Australia over the next three years, and replaces the failed Community Development Program (CDP), whilst a 10-year, $4 billion housing agreement in partnership with the NT Government, designed to halve overcrowding in Aboriginal communities, will see up to 270 homes built each year.

"Today is about facing up to what's not working and learning from what is," the Prime Minister will say on Monday.

"The success stories in this report have been written by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people themselves."

The Remote Aboriginal Investment announcement on Friday is designed, and will be implemented, in partnership with both the NT Government and the Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory.

"As well as maintaining and boosting critical remote services, this investment will transform how services are delivered in the longer term," the PM will argue.

Nonetheless, opposition spokesperson for Indigenous affairs, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, has focussed attacks on the government around issues in Central Australia, including crime.

She has regularly called for audits of all Indigenous programs and rejected calls for self-determination to lead the way in closing the gap - as promoted by the majority of Indigenous organisations - instead arguing for less "government welfare".

"Self-determination doesn't come from $842.6 million of government welfare and more government funded jobs, it comes from economic independence and learning to standing on one's own two feet," Senator Price said on Friday.