Productivity Commission
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...
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...
The stagnating and declining progress across critical Closing the Gap targets has real consequences for First Nations people, a new report says.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In response to the latest Closing the Gap Data Dashboard and Annual Data Compilation Report, Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Australia has called for all levels of government to do more under the National...
Newly appointed Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, has said she will take a bi-partisan political approach in the wake of the latest Productivity Commission report, which shows...
Only five of the 19 Closing the Gap targets are on track, the latest data from the Productivity Commission shows, with incarceration and out-of-home care rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande...
Healthcare professionals have rallied in response to February's Closing the Gap report that highlighted significant target shortfalls related to institutional racism across the medical sector.