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Australia is missing the Closing the Gap employment target by decades

  • Written by Zoe Staines, Research Consultant; Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology

Australia is missing its target to halve the unemployment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia by several decades, according to the latest Closing the Gap report.

The report also highlights many other problems with current Closing the Gap targets. For instance, the unemployment target misses other aspects of economic life, such as...

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