Still a long way from Closing the Gap

Housing, youth opportunity and incarceration rates are significant issues concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, South Australian meetings to consider the new Closing the Gap strategy have heard.

Closing the Gap off track and due for an overhaul: PM

Indigenous Australians will play a greater role in efforts to close the health and education gap, the Prime Minister says.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra today. Photo: AAP/Lukas Coch

Slow progress towards Closing the Gap

Malcolm Turnbull insisted jobs and setting up businesses are crucial to improving the lives of indigenous Australians as he prepared today to hand down the annual Closing the Gap report.

Indigenous rights: ‘They can’t wash their hands of this’

It was the most successful referendum in the nation’s history, but the 1967 vote was only the beginning of an unfinished journey to equality for indigenous Australians.

Mixed progress on Closing the Gap

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has presented the eighth Closing the Gap report, which shows mixed results.

Reconciliation support grows but racism still common: report

Reconciliation might be growing in Australia, but three out of 10 indigenous people say they still suffer racial abuse.