Closing The Gap
Directly increasing funding to organisations delivering Closing the Gap outcomes, rather than the Northern Territory Government, is a possibility, the federal government says, as the NT continues to l...
There is one particular sentence in the Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap Annual Data Compilation Report that should alarm you. Not because of what it counts.
The Queensland Government has expanded a workforce grants program aimed at creating more training and employment opportunities for Indigenous Queenslanders.
The NSW Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations says Closing the Gap must be about more than lip service, as one of its founding members announced its decision to withdraw from framework participat...
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council will withdraw from state's Closing the Gap framework citing "ongoing failures by the NSW Government to deliver genuine partnership, shared decision-making and accountab...
The relationship between the Northern Territory Government and Aboriginal organisations and peak bodies is at an all-time low, with key members pulling out of a key Closing the Gap forum over a breakd...
The federal government has released the Terms of Reference for the second Productivity Commission Review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.
A Charles Darwin University education expert has called for systemic change in how young people are taught after this year's NAPLAN results again highlighted the challenges Indigenous students are fac...
Dr Josie Douglas, General Manager of Professional Services at the Central Land Council, gave this acceptance speech on behalf of Dr Pat Turner AM for the National NAIDOC Award - Person of the Year.
Discussions at the recent Garma Festival reinforce the need for governments to focus on implementing the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, rather than creating a new agenda, according to the Coal...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men diagnosed with prostate cancer are less likely to receive surgery than other Australian men and more likely to face financial barriers to treatment, according...
For the first time since the National Agreement on Closing the Gap was signed, a target has been met. More than 95 per cent of First Nations children are now enrolled in preschool, up from 61.
Julian Leeser will use his speech at Garma as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians to outline what he describes as a "new direction" for the portfolio following the defeat of the Voice referendu...