Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that the Closing the Gap report 2018, A ten-year review: the Closing the Gap Strategy and Recommendations for Reset, was released in Parliament House on 8 February 2018;

(b) acknowledges that the target to achieve life expectancy equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples by 2030 will not be met if the current course continues;

(c) recognises that the Closing the Gap Strategy was effectively abandoned after five years, and that there is an urgent need for the strategy to be reset based on the existing Close the Gap statement of intent commitments with a corresponding national response and equitable, needs-based investment; and

(d) urges the federal, state and territory governments to implement the six recommendations of the review.