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Mixed progress in Australia’s National Agreement on Closing the Gap
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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The latest closing the gap report has been released. It found Australia continues to make little headway when it comes to closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
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There are 19 targets as part of the National Closing the Gap Agreement, and the Productivity
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Commission's report that was released overnight, as you mentioned, shows that only four of
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them are on track, which is actually a drop from last year.
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Now the target that has gone backwards is around the healthy birth weight of First Nations
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babies.
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But when we look at the targets that are performing well and are on track to be met, they include
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preschool program enrolments, employment, as well as land and sea rights.
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But there are also four of them that are worsening, which have sort of garnered quite a worry or
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concern from experts and advocates, and they are around adult imprisonment, children in
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out-of-home care, suicide, and getting children developmentally ready or on track.
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Now that's a bit of a national snapshot, but a recent feature of the Productivity Commission's
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reporting now allows us to delve into the progress that states and territories are making towards
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closing the gap.
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And what we can see is that adult incarceration is soaring right across the country, except
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for Victoria and the ACT.
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And then connected to that, we can also see that youth detention rates have worsened in
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the Northern Territory and Queensland.
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And when we zoom out a little bit and we compare the states and territories to see how they're
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performing, the Northern Territory was the worst performing jurisdiction in the country.
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And they're falling behind on eight of their targets, which was quite alarming to many who
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we've been talking to around the grounds about this report.
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And I guess just a bit of a background, federal, state and territory and local governments have
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signed up to this agreement alongside a collective of Aboriginal organisations to improve the lives
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of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people so that they can enjoy a healthy and happy
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life like their non-Indigenous counterparts.
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But what the report is showing is that that's not the case.
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And then the first is the implementation of the Mi N
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is going to be the same.
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And this is the final film.
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I'm going to be the same.
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We'll be the same to our kids.
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We'll be the same.
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And here we are in the final film.
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We'll be the same.
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We'll be the same with this.
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And if this is in a film now.
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It's going to be the same.
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Eames and the Strait Island.
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So, you're going to be the same.
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You're going to be the same.
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