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Outcome 3: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are engaged in high quality, culturally appropriate early childhood education in their early years
Target 3: By 2025, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children enrolled in Year Before Fulltime Schooling early childhood education to 95 per cent.
Friday, 10 Feb 2023
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
Native Title Representative Bodies and Service Providers Performance Reviews 2023-24
Following a competitive process, Nous Group has been engaged to perform the work set out in the following Statement of Work. Work on the reviews starts early in 2023 and should be completed by July 2024. As indicated in the Statement of Work, results will be published on this website.
Wednesday, 08 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
Recognition of Native Title Representative Bodies
The Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon Linda Burney MP, has invited the Kimberley Land Council (KLC), North Queensland Land Council (NQLC) and Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation (YMAC) to apply for further terms as the native title representative bodies for their regions.
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
Cross Cutting Areas
In recognising the high level of diversity across the First Nations population, the Commonwealth affirms its effort to directly meet the needs of all First Nations peoples through implementation of the National Agreement.
Thursday, 02 Feb 2023