How is Australia Closing the Gap?

to halve the gap in reading, writing and numeracy achievements for children within a decade. to halve the gap for Indigenous students in year 12 attainment rates by 2020 and. to halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade.

What is Australia doing to close the gap?

The Close the Gap Campaign aims to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

What is being done to close the gap?

Closing the Gap is a strategy that that aims to improve the life outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with respect to health and wellbeing, education, employment, justice, safety, housing, land and waters, and languages.

How do aboriginals close the gap?

The Government has committed to work in partnership with Indigenous Australians, recognising that the only way to close the gap is when Indigenous Australians own, commit to and drive the outcomes sought, alongside all governments.

What are the five targets of the Closing the Gap program in Australia?

This led to the National Indigenous Reform Agreement, a significant step toward more coordinated action. The first Closing the Gap framework outlined targets to reduce inequality in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's life expectancy, children's mortality, education and employment.

Closing the Gap: Australia's Indigenous strategy

What are the 7 targets for Closing the Gap?

The 17 socioeconomic Closing the Gap targets aim to improve the following outcome areas: health and wellbeing, education, employment, justice, safety, housing, land and waters, languages and digital inclusion [1].

Why is Closing the Gap not working?

Closing the Gap Targets are currently being refreshed through a new process, working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to create targets, rather than creating targets for them. However, as targets are being set, there needs to be new policies to tackle these targets.

How successful has Closing the Gap been?

What have we achieved? The sustained effort over the past 10 years to close the gap in the areas of health, education and employment has delivered better outcomes. For instance, Indigenous child mortality rates have fallen significantly over the longer term – down 35 per cent between 1998 and 2016.

What do indigenous people think of Closing the Gap?

More than 47 peak Aboriginal organisations have heaped criticism on the Closing the Gap results released on Wednesday as evidence of a “seemingly endless cycle of failure” that was doomed to fail because it was designed without the input of Aboriginal people.

What is the government doing to help Aboriginal health?

The Indigenous Australians' Health Programme (IAHP) funds high-quality health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It funds Indigenous-led, culturally appropriate initiatives to increase access to health care and improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

What does reconciliation Australia do?

Reconciliation Australia is a non-government, not-for-profit foundation established in January 2001 to promote a continuing national focus for reconciliation between Indigenous (i.e. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) and non-Indigenous Australians.

How much did Closing the Gap cost?

The $1.57 billion COAG National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes has helped contribute to the expansion of the ACCHSs (although the Campaign Steering Committee would like to see significantly more expansion through a renewed agreement).

Why Closing the Gap is important?

Why is Closing the Gap important? Closing the Gap is aimed at reducing disadvantage among Indigenous peoples with respect to child mortality, childhood education, life expectancy and health.

How much money is spent on Closing the Gap?

As part of our $1 billion investment in new Closing the Gap measures, we're investing $254.4 million in infrastructure to better support the critical work of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), which have been a significant part of the Government's response to COVID-19.

Is Australia doing enough for aboriginals?

Australia has made progress in improving education for indigenous people, but is still falling short in many areas, an annual report has found. Life expectancy, employment and literacy rates all remain lower for indigenous Australians, according to the Closing The Gap report.

What has Australia done for Indigenous peoples?

In 2015–16, the Australian Government directly spent $14.7 billion on Indigenous people, of which 77 per cent ($11.3 billion) was through mainstream programs such as Medicare, social security payments, child care benefits and support for university places accessed by Indigenous people.

Are aboriginal people disadvantaged in Australia?

Indigenous Australians experience widespread socioeconomic disadvantage and health inequality. Factors like discrimination and racism, violence, alcohol and drug use and high psychological distress can negatively affect social and emotional wellbeing.

How can we improve indigenous health?

Provide education and information for local schools, workplaces and community organisations that encourage them to work in partnership with Aboriginal members of the community to improve health and wellbeing. Develop an employment strategy to encourage Aboriginal people to work across all areas of council business.

Why Closing the Gap was developed?

to close the life expectancy gap within a generation. to halve the gap in mortality rates for Indigenous children under five within a decade. to ensure access to early childhood education for all Indigenous four year olds in remote communities within five years.

Who funds Closing the Gap?

Governments provide funds to address the Closing the Gap targets. These funds are mostly given to organisations and health services so that they can make health services more available and culturally appropriate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

What percentage of aboriginals are in jail?

Background. Many sources report over-representation of Indigenous offenders at all stages of the criminal justice system. As of September 2019, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners represented 28% of the total adult prisoner population, while accounting for 3.3% of the general population.

What are two things non Indigenous Australians can do to address this gap?

When did Kevin Rudd say sorry?

On 13 February 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd moved a motion of Apology to Indigenous Australians. His apology was a formal apology on behalf of the successive parliaments and governments whose policies and laws "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians".

What happened when Australia was colonized?

The most immediate consequence of colonisation was a wave of epidemic diseases including smallpox, measles and influenza, which spread ahead of the frontier and annihilated many First Nations communities.

What does rap stand for Aboriginal?

Our Reconciliation Action Plan, or RAP, details how Mission Australia is committed to help reduce the gap in living standards between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australians.