Australia: The Senate’s Bi-Partisan Support For Closing The Gap Essential

Australia: The Senate’s Bi-Partisan Support For Closing The Gap Essential   The Close the Gap campaign has welcomed the Senate’s re-commitment today to closing the gap on Indigenous health inequality.   Greens Senator Rachel Siewert today moved a motion in the Senate that all parties re-affirm their commitment to the Statement of Intent to close the gap.   This was a statement signed four years ago by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and then Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson, which...

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