Tamworth Council is the first to sign a Close the Gap agreement with local Aboriginal groups. Could it be a template for other regional areas to follow?
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Pat Turner is lead convener of the Coalition of Peaks and CEO of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), and she joins the podcast.
While you’d hardly know it from what politicians and commentators have said during the fractious Voice debate – there is a structure in place that could be used in this post-referendum phase
A Productivity Commission report released this week highlighted the continued lack of agency First Australians have - even though a comprehensive framework is already in place to try to Close the Gap
The initiatives come amid a spate of publicity about the problems in Alice Springs and elsewhere in the Northern Territory
Michelle Grattan discusses the vulnerability of First Nation communities with Indigenous Advocate Pat Turner
The government will unveil 16 targets for Indigenous advancement, when Scott Morrison announces on Thursday a new national agreement on “Closing the Gap”.
Michelle Grattan talks with aboriginal advocate Pat Turner
