Closing The Gap
Three years after the Voice referendum defeat, the Labor government's efforts in Indigenous affairs continue to draw criticism from First Nations leaders, who say the government has moved away from it...
Remote communities are places of identity, belonging and connection to Country. They are also places of resilience, leadership and opportunity.
Respected Northern Territory community leader Dr John Paterson will become Chair of The Healing Foundation from next month, guiding the organisation's next chapter of advocacy, healing and action for...
The Northern Land Council has called on the Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments to urgently address what it says are persistent failures in essential services affecting remote communities...
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.