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Outcome 2: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are born healthy and strong
Target 2: By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies with a healthy birthweight to 91 per cent.
Minister responsible
Minister for Health and Aged Care, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
Outcome 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enjoy long and healthy lives
Target 1: Close the Gap in life expectancy within a generation, by 2031
Minister responsible
Minister for Health and Aged Care, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
Priority Reform Four: Shared access to data and information at a regional level
Outcome:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have access to, and the capability to use, locally relevant data and information to set and monitor the implementation of efforts to close the gap, their priorities and drive their own development.
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
Priority Reform Three: Transforming Government Organisations
Outcome:
Improving mainstream institutions: governments, their organisations and their institutions are accountable for Closing the Gap and are culturally safe and responsive to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including through the services they fund.
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
Priority Reform Two: Building the community-controlled sector
Outcome:
There is a strong and sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled sector delivering high quality services to meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country.
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
Priority Reform One: Formal partnerships and shared decision-making
Outcome: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are empowered to share decision-making authority with governments to accelerate policy and place-based progress on Closing the Gap through formal partnership arrangements.
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
2023 Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan
The Minister for Indigenous Australians has delivered the 2023 Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan. This Implementation Plan is the first under the Albanese Government, and outlines the Commonwealth’s strategic priorities and efforts to close the gap over the next 12 to 18 months.
Tuesday, 07 Feb 2023
Minister for Indigenous Australians’ foreword
“I hope that the renewed focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the commitment for structural reform to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as partners in decision-making that we’re currently seeing leads to increased action on the National Agreement next year.” (Ms Pat Turner AM, 16 December 2022)
Thursday, 02 Feb 2023
Prime Minister’s foreword
And now we measure the legacy of this history every year in the report on Closing the Gap. The gap is not closing. Not fast enough. Even going backwards in some areas.
We say listen to us and we will help make things better so we can close the gap. We say listen to us before making policies that affect us. (Dr Samuel Bush-Blanasi)
Thursday, 02 Feb 2023
Meeting our Commitments
2023 Commitments in the National Agreement
This Implementation Plan meets all the requirements set out in the National Agreement. See checklist below.
Thursday, 02 Feb 2023
Appendix A: Summary of new actions
Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan 2023: Appendix A: Summary of new actions
Thursday, 02 Feb 2023
Introduction
Executive Summary
The Albanese Government is pleased to present its first Closing the Gap Implementation Plan. The 2023 Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan (Implementation Plan) outlines the Government’s forward looking strategic priorities for Closing the Gap over the next 12 to 18 months.
Wednesday, 01 Feb 2023
2023 Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan
The Minister for Indigenous Australians tabled the 2023 Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan on 13 February 2023. This Implementation Plan is the first under the Albanese Government, and outlines the Commonwealth’s strategic priorities and efforts to close the gap over the next 12 to 18 months. In response to the Commonwealth Closing the Gap Annual Report 2022, the Implementation Plan paves a practical pathway with tangible actions to improve the lives of First Nations Australians.
Wednesday, 01 Feb 2023
Commonwealth Closing the Gap Annual Report 2022
The Commonwealth Closing the Gap Annual Report 2022 is now available.
The Australian Government released the Annual Report today, the first since the launch of the 2020 National Agreement and development of the Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan in August 2021.
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2022
Commonwealth Closing the Gap Annual Report 2022
The Minister for Indigenous Australians has delivered the Commonwealth Closing the Gap Annual Report 2022. This is the first Annual Report since the commencement of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap in 2020 and the release of the Commonwealth Closing the Gap Implementation Plan in 2021.
Wednesday, 30 Nov 2022