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Resources Review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap Draft Report
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Review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap Draft Report

Jessica Johnston
Last edited: November 28, 2023

The Productivity Commission’s Closing the Gap draft report overwhelmingly shows that progress on the key targets for improving life outcomes for First Nations peoples is falling short of envisaged expectations, with limited accountability for this failure and a lack of an overall strategic approach to deliver systemic transformation of government organisations.

The enduring gap between First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians is grounded in colonialism. It is ANTAR’s position that until governments fully grasp the extent to which their systems, policies and ways of working are still deeply embedded in and informed by the settler colonial paradigm – and until true ‘nation to nation’ power-sharing with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is built into the architecture of our governance systems – true transformative change will be elusive.