Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Continuing work to Close the Gap
Date published :
25
August
2011
The Minister for Indigenous
Affairs, Jenny Macklin, has welcomed the Overcoming Indigenous
Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2011 Report, which highlights progress
in closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous
Australians and demonstrates that continued effort is required. T
he Australian Government committed to the Closing the Gap targets
because we knew that previous haphazard approaches to ending
Indigenous disadvantage had not been good enough. T he Closing the
Gap targets commit all governments to an overarching framework and
hold them accountable to specific targets. This, together with our
unprecedented investment, is beginning to make a difference, but
the Government recognises that this work will take time and
continued effort.
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