Closing Australia’s gap more than a matter of skin colour

By Lyndon Keane
Updated February 18 2015 - 12:55pm, first published 12:00pm
MISSING THE POINT: Federal politicians, including Prime Minister Tony Abbott, could understand how the mission to close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is failing by simply looking at any regional Northern Territory town.
MISSING THE POINT: Federal politicians, including Prime Minister Tony Abbott, could understand how the mission to close the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is failing by simply looking at any regional Northern Territory town.

THERE is no need for the federal government to commission costly annual reports to understand how the war on closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is progressing: a stroll through any regional Northern Territory town would produce the same distressing answer.

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