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  • May 27

    Today marks the 47th anniversary since Australia's most successful referendum where Australians voted YES for Aboriginal rights. Today's generation have an opportunity to finally recognise the First Australians in a referendum - find out more and get involved here

  • Pace of change has to accelerate if we are to achieve the 2030 target of equal life expectancy for all Australians.

    Headline results of the COAG Reform Council’s latest report on the closing the gap reform agenda.

    Close the Gap Campaign Co-Chair, Kirstie Parker, said the report shows some progress in reducing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians. However, Ms Parker said the pace of change has to accelerate if we are to achieve the 2030 target of equal life expectancy for all Australians.

  • 2014 - 2015 Federal Budget - Government must explain how Indigenous policy overhaul will close the gap

    ANTaR today called on government to show how the budget measures in Indigenous affairs will close the gap in Indigenous disadvantage.

    “Government needs to explain how the changes will meet their committments to closing the gap and how they will engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their representatives on the overhall to Indigenous Affairs.”

    ANTaR's media response to the 2014 budget can be read here

  • ANTaR responds to the Attorney General's Freedom of Speech Exposure Draft

    ANTaR has submitted its response to the "Freedom of Speech (repeal of s.18C) Bill 2014" Exposure Draft realeased by Attorney General George Brandis on March 25 2014.

    The Exposure Draft proposes to alter the Racial Discrimination Act (1975) by removing the prohibitions on hate speech contained in section 18C. 

  • Next step towards Constitutional Recognition

    Last week the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, announced that the Australian Government has established a panel to review public support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander constitutional recognition.

    The review follows on from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Recognition Act 2013, which passed unanimously through the Australian Parliament last year, and is the Government’s next step towards a referendum on the issue.

  • "A Day When Action Breeds Hope"

    Addressing supporters at ANTaR’s National Close the Gap Day Picnic at Prince Alfred Park, Sydney, Kirstie Parker – Co-Chair of the Close the Gap Committee and Co-Chair of the National Congress – spoke about her vision of Australia becoming “a big and courageous nation” and overcoming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health inequality.

  • National Close the Gap Day

    ANTaR supporters joined the expected 150,000 people gathering around the country today to show their support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality on National Close the Gap Day.

    The Annual National Close the Gap Day Picnic at Prince Alfred Park, coordinated by ANTaR in partnership with Oxfam, was one of the record 1250 events taking place across the country.

    Thanks to Close the Gap Campaign Co-Chair Kirstie Parker for speaking at the picnic and to Michael West for his Welcome to Country.

  • Come to our National Close the Gap Day Picnic!

    ANTaR will be marking National Close the Gap Day with our Annual National Close the Gap Day Picnic at Prince Alfred Park, Surry Hills, Sydney on Thursday, 20 March. 

    Join us in sending a powerful message to all Members of Parliament that we are committed for the long-term and they should be too.

    Let's send a strong visual image to Canberra that now is not the time to walk away from this generational commitment to closing the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality.

  • Archive

    Justice Targets are needed for action on Aboriginal jobs and education.

    ANTaR supports the calls made today by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) and the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples for the Governments of Australia to adopt Justice Targets.

    Dr Lewis said that the Abbott Government has a commitment to improving Aboriginal education and employment, but the continued high rates of incarceration are a major barrier to achieving it.

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