Closing the Gap Report 2015 - a mixture of success and failure with some backward steps.

It seems it might be about time for Australians to tell their political representatives, both at State and Federal levels, to get serious about the Australian Government's flagship Aboriginal policy, Closing the Gap. The graph below shows the lack of success - in spite of the Howard Government sending in the troops!

Coalition MPs stage walkout after 

Bill Shorten raises Budget in Closing the Gap Speech

Closing the Gap: Two decades to address Indigenous disadvantage

Tony Abbott's 2015 Statement on Closing the Gap

Bill Shorten's 2015 Speech on Closing the Gap

Below is the 2015 Closing the Gap Report