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After winning in a landslide Northern Territory election, Lia Finocchiaro and the Country Liberals have announced massive hard-line reforms to the youth justice system, including lowering the age of criminal responsibility, denying bail for repeat and violent offenders, and holding parents partly responsible for the crimes of their children. This comes after rises in youth …
Indigenous advocates are calling for a child protection system compatible with cultural practice to address the continued removal of First Nations children from their families. This follows the Productivity Commission’s fourth annual Closing the Gap Data Compilation Report which reveals the number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care in Victoria had increased from 102.2 children per 1,000 …
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A Majority-led Indigenous organisation is calling for governments across all jurisdictions to provide holistic support in Closing the Gap. Kurt Gruber is the founding director of the World View Foundation and has ancestral ties to the Anēwan people of New South Wales The Foundation has found success in providing holistic support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders …
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Indigenous communities are being called on to have their say on the formation of an advisory body to hold government accountable on Closing the Gap targets. The New South Wales Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations wants to create an independent, Aboriginal-led body to commit lawmakers to meeting the targets set out in the 2020 gap …
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The Federal Government says improved literacy and numeracy skills among Indigenous children would be just one benefit of a Voice to Parliament.Five of the Closing the Gap targets centre on access to education, literacy and numeracy skills.Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says one in three Indigenous children are below the NAPLAN standards… and if they’re …
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The recently released Closing the Gap report of 2022 reveals that out of 18 targets, four targets are on track, and four are getting worse. It will be the first report since the national agreement on Closing the Gap took effect in 2020, aimed at working collaboratively to improve outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Although many …
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