A damning report from the Closing the Gap Campaign Steering Committee accused the Federal Government of effectively abandoning its policy to reduce inequalities in health, education, and employment between Australia’s First Peoples and non-indigenous Australians.
The report indicated six of the policy’s seven key measures for inequality were not ontrack to be addressed by their 2020 target date.
The committee stated amongst the leading reasons for this halting failure are a revolving door of Prime Ministers, Indigenous Affairs Ministers and senior bureaucrats.