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What is the Close the Gap campaign?

What is the Close the Gap campaign?

The Close the Gap Campaign aims to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

What is the Closing the Gap strategy?

Closing the Gap acknowledges the ongoing strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in sustaining the world’s oldest living cultures. It also recognises that structural change in the way governments work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is needed to close the gap.

What is closing the gap for kids?

Closing the Gap is aimed at reducing disadvantage among Indigenous peoples with respect to child mortality, childhood education, life expectancy and health. Closing the Gap aims to breach the health gap and disparity in mortality rates and living standards between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

How does the close the Gap campaign work?

The Close the Gap Campaign aims to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation. The campaign is built on evidence that shows significant improvements in the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be achieved by 2030.

When did close the gap day start in Australia?

A year after the National Close the Gap day was established the government came on board, announcing in 2008 during Rudd’s government, a strategy to improve the health and lives of Indigenous people. As stated on the government website:

When did the close the gap report come out?

The campaign is built on evidence that shows significant improvements in the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be achieved by 2030. In February 2018 we released the Close the Gap: 10 Year Review.

Why is it important to close the gap?

Closing the Gap is underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved.