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Last Updated: Nov 2nd, 2009 - 17:32:57 |
ABC News - The Government's report card shows significant gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in health, education and housing.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says progress is being made, but the Opposition's Indigenous Affairs spokesman, Tony Abbott, is not so sure.
"There are no statistics in there to show there has been any significant improvement," he said.
"Indigenous disadvantage is just as great as it was 12 months ago."
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert agrees.
"The Government has not delivered on the promise of the apology," she said.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma says he is pleased the report sets out a long term framework for improving living conditions, but says an ongoing sticking point is the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act.
"It's just not acceptable that we have differential treatment," he said.
"We still have one of our basic human rights protection mechanisms suspended."
The suspension allows the Government to quarantine the welfare payments in Indigenous communities.
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