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Date Time CLOSE GAP: New report wake-up call for all Australians Governments across Australia must urgently redouble their efforts to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inequality, the Close the Gap campaign says, following the release of disappointing new data on the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. This week’s release of the first annual data report by the Productivity Commission revealed that the central commitment to close the life expectancy gap for First Nations people by 2031 was not on track to be met. The report also showed increased rates of Aboriginal and Torres ...

Interview Stand: 03.07.2021 05:43 Uhr Die Grünen sind unter Druck und kämpfen um ihren Herausfordererstatus. Für Laschet ist das Rennen längst nicht gelaufen - und was macht eigentlich Scholz? Ein Interview. tagesschau.de: Vor ein paar Wochen schien es noch so, als seien die Grünen schon im Kanzleramt und die Union mit Armin Laschet chancenlos. Jetzt ist es umgekehrt. Dabei hat die Union nichts gemacht, außer endlich ein erwartbares - fast schon langweiliges - Wahlprogramm vorzulegen. Ist das Rennen gelaufen? Thorsten Faas: Nein, sicherlich nicht....

Program for Indigenous youth building 'momentum for change' in justice system Posted 4 Kimberly Byers, 22, (right) once believed she would live on welfare her entire life. ( Share Print text only Kimberly Byers was prepared for a life of trouble. By the time she was a teenager, she'd spent far too long at the local cop shop. She'd resigned herself to her lot in life, but a fortuitous meeting changed everything. "I thought that was going to be my life, just going to court every damn day," Kimberly said. It wasn't what she wanted, but after a tough upbringing in a family that struggled to ma...

Date Time CLOSE GAP: Listen to our solutions, hear our voices The Close the Gap Campaign has called for urgent investment in First Nations health equality and the adoption of the Uluru Statement from the Heart by governments of every level. The 2021 Close the Gap report, released today (National Close the Gap Day), has 15 recommendations for large-scale systemic reform necessary in order to avoid further preventable deaths and protect Indigenous health, wellbeing, culture and Country. The report contains a snapshot of First Nations health and wellbeing, and also strengths-based examples of Fi...

Leadership Gap. Attendees saw how donations to Worldwide Foundation’s Priority Fund paved the way for credit unions in Ukraine to increase their agribusiness lending to farmers, and for hundreds of Venezuelan migrants and vulnerable local populations in Peru and Ecuador to access formal financial services, employment and entrepreneurial training. In 2021, the Priority Fund will be used to  bridge the digital gap by striving to digitize credit unions worldwide to deliver mobile and online services safely to millions seeking remote access to basic financial services. The COVID-19 pandemic ha...