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What are the 7 targets for Closing the Gap?

What are the 7 targets for Closing the Gap?

Closing the Gap targets and outcomes

  • Everyone enjoys long and healthy lives.
  • Children are born healthy and strong.
  • Children are engaged in high quality, culturally appropriate early childhood education in their early years.
  • Children thrive in their early years.
  • Students achieve their full learning potential.

What are the 6 Closing the Gap targets?

The strategy recognised that closing the gap in Indigenous disadvantage would require long-term, generational commitment, with effort to be directed across a range of priority areas: early childhood, schooling, health, economic participation, healthy homes, safe communities and governance and leadership.

What is covered under Closing the Gap?

Closing the Gap is a strategy that that aims to improve the life outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with respect to health and wellbeing, education, employment, justice, safety, housing, land and waters, and languages.

Who published the Closing the Gap report?

2018. In December 2018, COAG released the COAG statement on the Closing the Gap Refresh, a draft of the strengths-based framework that recognises the importance of genuine partnership between the governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and outlined refreshed targets.

What are the priority targets in the 2020 Closing the Gap report?

These were: early childhood, schooling, health, economic participation, healthy homes, safe communities, and governance and leadership. The Commonwealth Government has delivered an annual report on progress on Closing the Gap since the National Indigenous Reform Agreement was established.

What is Closing the Gap 2021?

The Close the Gap Campaign aims to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

What are the 17 Closing the Gap targets?

The 17 socioeconomic Closing the Gap targets aim to improve the following outcome areas: health and wellbeing, education, employment, justice, safety, housing, land and waters, languages and digital inclusion [1].

Who is eligible for close the gap?

Patient Eligibility The Closing the Gap PBS Co-payment Program is available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of any age who are registered with Medicare, and in the opinion of a prescriber or Aboriginal Health Practitioner (AHP):

Who created the Close the Gap campaign?

Who are we? The Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee first met in March 2006. Our patrons, Catherine Freeman OAM and lan Thorpe OAM, launched the Campaign in April 2007. To date, almost 200,000 Australians have formally pledged their support.

What is the difference between close the gap and Closing the Gap?

SO, Close the Gap and Closing the Gap are two sides of the same coin; one is the non-government push for increased action and the other is the Government’s response to this.

Why is there a new national agreement on Closing the Gap?

The objective of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap (the National Agreement) is to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and governments to work together to overcome the inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and achieve life outcomes equal to all Australians.

Can a DNA test tell if you are Aboriginal?

This means Aboriginal ancestors can only be reliably detected through direct maternal or paternal lines (using mitochondrial and Y-chromosome tests). The only two companies to offer “Aboriginality tests” – DNA Tribes and GTDNA – rely on short tandem repeat (STR) genetic testing.