Just 2 of 7 key targets to improve the lives of indigenous people are on track. FMTNews Morrison
Morrison says school attendance rates for Aboriginal children were still lagging behind other groups.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said just two of seven key targets to improve the lives of Australia’s indigenous people were on track – unchanged from last year. Other targets to halve the gap in child mortality, literacy, life expectancy, and unemployment rates were not being met. The admission comes 250 years since Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the vast continent, a journey that led to British colonisation and upended indigenous communities.Indigenous children are twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday and 25 times more likely to be incarcerated than the rest of the population, according to official statistics.
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