Prime Minister Vows Cultural Overhaul to Address Indigenous Inequality

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to spearhead a cultural transformation within government at every level to combat longstanding Indigenous inequality.  The government presented its plan to tackle Indigenous inequality as it presented the Commonwealth’s Closing the Gap annual Report 2023 and the Implementation Plan 2024 to Parliament. Governments were urged to implement a significant plan as they haven’t fully grasped the extent of their obligations, according to the Productivity Commission’s critical review of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.  “The price of failure—over successive governments—isn’t just counted in dollars, it’s measured in lives,” Mr. Albanese said on the 16th anniversary of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s official apology to Australia’s Indigenous people....