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To enable healing, there’s a more effective way to Close the Gap in employment in remote Australia

Zoe Staines, The University of Queensland; Elise Klein, Australian National University; Francis Markham, Australian National University, and Jon Altman, Australian National University

Mass unemployment is not a result of people choosing to remain on welfare. Attempts to close the “employment gap” ignore the real cause: unemployment is structural, not behavioural.
In his first major policy address, Ken Wyatt noted how previous governments have failed Indigenous Australians with a ‘top-down, command and control approach.’ Rohan Thomson/AAP

Listening with ‘our ears and our eyes’: Ken Wyatt’s big promises on Indigenous affairs

Eddie Synot, Griffith University

Ken Wyatt’s promise of a referendum on constitutional recognition within three years marks a dramatic shift from the Turnbull government’s rejection of the Uluru Statement of the Heart.

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  1. Closing the Gap
  2. COVID-19
  3. Indigenous
  4. indigenous affairs
  5. Indigenous art
  6. Ken Wyatt
  7. stimulus package
  8. Truth Telling
  9. Uluru statement
  10. Unemployment

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