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The Closing the Gap targets relate to life expectancy, child mortality, access to early childhood education, literacy and numeracy at specified school levels, Year 12 attainment, school attendance, and employment outcomes. Annual Closing the Gap reports are presented to federal parliament, providing updates on the agreed targets and related topics.
At the Garma Festival in July 2024, prime minister Anthony Albanese, in the wake of a disappointing Closing the Gap report which showed several targets not being met, focused on economic empowerment of Indigenous people as a key to reducing disadvantage and closing the gap. He said that he would be working closely with the Coalition of Peaks.
In 2020, the Closing the Gap framework and strategy was significantly overhauled, with a "greater focus on partnership between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people". [ 14 ] Each year, the Close the Gap Steering Committee publishes a report detailing the Government's progress in achieving its targets.
The US continues to lag behind other countries in closing the gender gap, a new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) found. According to the 2024 Global Gender Gap Report, the US ranked 43rd ...
Closing the Gaps was a direct response to the findings of the 1998 Te Puni Kōkiri report "Progress Towards Closing the Social and Economic Gaps Between Māori and non-Māori", which outlined these accumulating inequalities Māori and Pacific Islanders encountered. The report's overall findings revealed the gaps between Māori and non-Māori in ...
For example, 98 economies have equal pay laws, but only 35 have pay-transparency measures or enforcement mechanisms to address the pay gap, which shows women earning just 77 cents for every dollar ...
The IRS estimated that the national tax gap was $688 billion in 2021, up 14.4% from $601 billion in 2020 and nearly double from $345 billion in 2001.It attributed the tax gap increase to a growing ...
The Australian Government has set a National Closing the Gap target for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have equal levels of digital inclusion by 2026. [ 10 ] Measuring digital inclusion