Solely 4 Closing the Hole targets on observe to be met
With out altering the strategy to Closing the Hole, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals will proceed to “pay the worth”, Indigenous organisations say.
Simply 4 of the 19 Closing the Hole targets are on observe to be met, in line with the newest information from the Productiveness Fee, Australian Related Press studies.
However key targets, together with grownup imprisonment charges, youngsters in out-of-home care, suicide and childhood growth, are persevering with to worsen.
Whereas there have been enhancements in yr 12 attainment, tertiary training and housing entry, these will not be on observe to fulfill deadlines.
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The communications minister has defined the federal government is limiting youngsters’s YouTube entry as an alternative of concentrating on social media corporations’ duties with an analogy that whereas it’s not possible to police the ocean, they’re “going to have a crack” at policing the sharks.
Anika Wells appeared on ABC’s 7.30 program yesterday night within the wake of stories this week that youngsters will likely be banned from having YouTube accounts from December, with the federal authorities backflipping on an earlier resolution to exempt the video platform from the nationwide under-16s social media restrictions.
In response to being requested if the larger query was not why social media corporations are placing vile materials on their platforms within the first place, Wells stated:
It’s a query for the social media platforms. YouTube uploads 500 hours of content material each 60 seconds. In case you might put all of that social media content material in a library, it might be the world’s worst library. You wouldn’t enable your baby to stroll into it, however the web is right here. The web is ubiquitous. I’ve received little youngsters. We’re all making an attempt our greatest. Mother and father are attempting their greatest, however it’s like making an attempt to show your youngsters to swim in an open ocean with rips and sharks fairly than on the pool. We will’t police the ocean, however we are able to police the sharks. We’re going to have a crack at it.
Wells stated the federal government stays dedicated to a plan that can even see obligation placed on social media corporations to forestall dangerous content material on their platforms.
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Onto worldwide points, Chalmers is requested whether or not Australia might recognise a Palestinian state by September for the UN assembly – because the UK stated it can do, until Israel takes “substantive steps” to finish the battle and decide to a peace course of.
Chalmers says he gained’t put a timeframe on it but it surely’s “a matter of when, not if” – echoing feedback made by each the prime minister and different ministers yesterday.
There are a variety of obstacles nonetheless in the way in which to recognition of a Palestinian state. For instance, the therapy, the discharge, of the hostages, ensuring that there’s completely no position for Hamas. These are the kinds of issues that the worldwide group is working via. However that assertion that got here out yesterday that we signed as Australians by way of our International Minister, Penny Wong, is a extremely essential one.
Chalmers can also be requested in regards to the tariff scenario, and says the federal government hasn’t “heard any completely different from the ten% baseline that’s been levied on Australia”.
Donald Trump has stated this week extra nations could possibly be levied at 15 to twenty%. Chalmers gained’t rule out Australia being hit with the next fee.
I feel it might be a courageous particular person to imagine that there gained’t be – whether or not it’s with different nations or – there’ll all the time be extra bulletins about this. These tariff bulletins are a transferring feast. However our expectation is we get the baseline.
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Jim Chalmers says Australia ‘must do a lot better’ on Closing the Hole
Jim Chalmers begins on ABC Information Breakfast this morning. He’s fairly pleased with the inflation numbers and says the primary two fee cuts this yr had been “very, very welcome” reduction, however he gained’t predict if there’ll be one other.
Requested in regards to the newest Closing the Hole information, Chalmers says Australia “must do a lot better” and that some outcomes have gone backwards in “worrying methods”.
Minister Malarndirri McCarthy is working in her characteristically diligent approach with all the stakeholders, all the communities, to attempt to flip these numbers round. There was progress in 10 of the 15. There was some worrying outcomes in the remainder, however total, we have to do extra and we have to do higher.
McCarthy and the prime minister will likely be visiting the Garma competition subsequent week, held in distant north-east Arnhem Land.
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Krishani Dhanji
Good morning,
Krishani Dhanji right here with you for the ultimate sitting day of the fortnight, due to Martin Farrer for getting us began!
Jim Chalmers is doing the media rounds this morning, off the again of what he known as “excellent” inflation information yesterday.
The federal government has stated it desires its childcare invoice to be handed via parliament this week, which leaves right now for it to be voted via the Senate (it has the assist of the Coalition and the Greens).
And as Martin introduced you earlier, we’ll be following the response to the newest Closing the Hole information.
Stick with us, it’s going to be an enormous one!
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Closing the Hole evaluation finds group managed organisations key to progress
The brand new information follows a current evaluation of the Closing the Hole settlement, commissioned by the Coalition of Peaks.
The evaluation discovered Indigenous group managed organisations are key to progress, and governments should take heed to First Nations individuals and share decision-making energy to create optimistic change.
Productiveness commissioner Selwyn Button stated the evaluation reveals the outcomes of the settlement are falling effectively wanting what governments have dedicated to.
What the outcomes within the settlement replicate most of all is the restricted progress of governments in collectively appearing on the precedence reforms: sharing decision-making and information with communities; strengthening the Aboriginal group managed sector and altering the way in which governments function.
Coalition of Peaks Lead Convenor Pat Turner stated enhancements in early training enrolments, employment and land and sea rights present what’s attainable when authorities accomplice with Indigenous organisations “in the suitable approach”.
However she stated when governments fail to fulfill their commitments to work with group managed organisations the hole widens.
What’s essential for Australians to know is that Aboriginal group managed organisations will not be fringe companies.
We’re not asking for particular therapy. We’re asking for a fair proportion. Once we get that, we ship.
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These are the Closing the Hole socio-economic outcomes within the newest report intimately:
89.2% of infants had been born with a wholesome birthweight (enchancment, however not on observe)
94.2% of kids had been enrolled in preschool (on observe)
33.9% of kids commencing college had been developmentally on observe (worsening)
2,304 out of each 100,000 adults had been in jail (worsening)
26 out of each 10,000 younger individuals had been in detention (no change)
50 out of each 1,000 youngsters had been in out-of-home care (worsening)
31 out of each 100,000 individuals took their very own life (worsening)
4.3 million sq km of land had been topic to Indigenous rights or pursuits (on observe)
113,517 sq km of sea had been topic to Indigenous rights or pursuits (on observe)
88% of individuals used the web (no evaluation)
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Closing the Hole outcomes ‘unacceptable’
“It’s not sufficient to hope the hole will shut, governments should maintain themselves to account for the commitments they’ve made beneath the nationwide settlement,” Coalition of Peaks lead convener Pat Turner stated of the newest Closing the Hole report.
“That requires sensible funding, longer-term versatile funding and full implementation of the 4 precedence reforms – shifting energy, not simply coverage.
“With out actual energy shift, we’ll preserve seeing the identical patterns repeat, and our individuals will proceed to pay the worth.”
The Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Well being Council chief government, Paula Arnol, stated the newest Closing the Hole report card was disappointing.
“It’s 2025 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons are nonetheless not experiencing the well being outcomes that non-Indigenous Australians get pleasure from. That is unacceptable,” she stated.
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Solely 4 Closing the Hole targets on observe to be met
With out altering the strategy to Closing the Hole, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals will proceed to “pay the worth”, Indigenous organisations say.
Simply 4 of the 19 Closing the Hole targets are on observe to be met, in line with the newest information from the Productiveness Fee, Australian Related Press studies.
However key targets, together with grownup imprisonment charges, youngsters in out-of-home care, suicide and childhood growth, are persevering with to worsen.
Whereas there have been enhancements in yr 12 attainment, tertiary training and housing entry, these will not be on observe to fulfill deadlines.
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Good morning and welcome to our dwell politics weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the highest in a single day tales after which it is going to be Krishani Dhanji with the primary motion.
The most recent Closing the Hole report has been launched this morning and it reveals that progress is being made on solely 4 of the 19 targets. Indigenous teams and advocates say governments must do extra. Extra particulars arising.
Anika Wells, the communications minister, appeared on 7.30 final night time to clarify the federal government’s resolution to limit youngsters’s YouTube entry. Extra particulars arising on that as effectively.
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