More than a decade of efforts to close the gap on Indigenous health and education benchmarks has failed to reach its targets.
an Indigenous child mortality rate of 141 per 100,000 — twice the rate for non-Indigenous children - "shouldn't be occurring in a first-world nation" and showed governments and agencies "still have a lot of work to do".
Mr Morrison is expected to tell Parliament on Wednesday that despite the best of intentions, investments in new programs and shared bipartisan "goodwill", governments have failed to meet the ambitious aims set in 2008. "We must see the gap from the viewpoint of Indigenous Australians before we can hope to close it, and make a real difference. That is the change we are now making together with Indigenous Australians through this process."
The report will reveal government is on track to meet its target of 95 per cent of all Indigenous four-year-olds enrolled in early childhood education by 2025, with 86.4 per cent now enrolled. "We've done it well for early children, we've done it well for secondary education ... but in all the others we have failed. There was great expectation but that hasn't translated into closure of the gap," Mr Wyatt said.
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