Closing the Gap report 2014

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has recently delivered the 6th annual Closing the Gap report, outlining mixed results in the quest to minimise indigenous disadvantage.  Some of the key findings included:

• there has been a small improvement in indigenous life expectancy, but progress needs to accelerate in order to meet the target to close this gap by 2031
• child mortality targets are on track
• progress on the reading, writing and numeracy gaps are disappointing
• no progress has been made against the target to halve the employment gap within a decade.