We'll never Close the Gap until we start again with Indigenous policy

Every year it’s the same story: some minor improvements in the lives of Australia’s first peoples. The big picture doesn’t change though: dismal failure

It’s Close the Gap time again.

On Wednesday federal parliament will respond to the eighth annual Closing the Gap report on this country’s attempt to narrow the appalling disparities between the quality and duration of Indigenous lives and those of other Australians.

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