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ANAO audit finds reporting gaps slowing progress on Closing the Gap education targets
Progress toward Closing the Gap targets in schooling and early childhood develop...
Dechlan Brennan 5 Feb 2026
'It doesn't understand what a lounge room in Shepperton smells like': Briggs warns against AI exploitation of artists
Yorta Yorta rapper Adam Briggs has told a Senate inquiry it would be hard to get...
Dechlan Brennan 1 Oct 2025
End Indigenous policies which target and punish, rather than support — Djirra
A leading family violence organisation says new Closing the Gap data shows gover...
Dechlan Brennan 13 Aug 2025
First Nations women have the largest gender pay gap in Australia, new study reveals
A new study by Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) has revealed that First Nations w...
Alexandra Giorgianni 10 Aug 2025
How First Nations ‘demographic dividend’ can boost Australia's productivity
Indigenous Business Australia has told the Treasurer's Economic Reform Roundtabl...
Callan Morse 4 Aug 2025
“More needs to be done immediately”: Aboriginal legal service responds to bleak Closing the Gap report

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service says the Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap report highlights that more needs to be done to address disadvantage experienced by Indigenous people b...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Aug 1, 2025
“We are the answer”: First Nations leaders at 2025 Australian Sustainable Finance Institute Summit urge greater economic inclusion

The 2025 Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) Summit spotlighted the untapped potential of First Nations participation in driving sustainable productivity.

“The reality is killing our people”: Children’s Ground says Closing the Gap data reveals continuing, devastating failure

First Nations organisation Children's Ground says Closing the Gap data released this week shows governments are continuing to fail Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Callan Morse Callan Morse Aug 1, 2025
"Change is possible when governments commit but key outcomes for children are going backwards" - SNAICC responds to latest Closing the Gap report

The Productivity Commission's latest Closing the Gap annual data report highlights that where governments are making a concerted effort to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 31, 2025
Governments “falling well short of what has been promised” on Closing the Gap

The new Productivity Commission report on Australia's performance towards the targets and indicators in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, released Wednesday night, shows only four of 19 targe...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jul 30, 2025
New report offers "tangible solutions" to close the gap

The stagnating and declining progress across critical Closing the Gap targets has real consequences for First Nations people, a new report says.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 20, 2025
"No longer surprising": NT Closing the Gap targets going backwards

The Northern Territory's failure to halt the regression in half of the Closing the Gap targets is "no longer surprising," experts have said. With a quarter of the population Indigenous - three quarter...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Mar 14, 2025
Closing the Gap numbers reveal a “year of betrayal" - Thorpe

The closing the gap numbers reveal a "year of betrayal," independent senator Lidia Thorpe says. Speaking on the day the government announced a raft of measures to combat Indigenous disadvantage with o...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 10, 2025
New legislation to tackle inauthentic "Indigenous" art

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been creating visual arts and crafts for tens of thousands of years. This practice has evolved into a significant industry, generating income for arti...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Jan 15, 2025
Justice "gap" remains wider than ever

The Coalition of Peaks meeting in Boorloo, Perth this month appears intended as a sharp reminder of state government's commitment to Closing the Gap targets and the partnership of Commonwealth and sta...

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Dr Hannah McGlade Nov 26, 2024
'Unfair' concerns impacting Indigenous businesses

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people already face systemic barriers when attempting to get their businesses off the ground and concerns about "black cladding" can exacerbate difficulties, an I...

Productivity Commission recommendations a "game changer" if governments "bold enough" for reform, SNAICC says

The peak body for Indigenous children says the latest Productivity Commission's report on reforming early childhood education and care will be a "game changer" for First Nations children if government...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Sep 18, 2024
NAAJA calls for greater investment in programs to combat overincarceration in the Northern Territory

The Northern Territory's largest Indigenous legal organisation has responded to the Closing the Gap numbers released this week by calling for a greater investment in programs and services to combat th...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 2, 2024
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