The ACT has become the first state or territory to legislate its commitments under the national agreement on Closing the Gap.
The independent for Kurrajong, Thomas Emerson, introduced the bill, which the ACT Legislative Assembly unanimously passed on Tuesday.
Emerson said in a statement:
"This bill reframes our Closing the Gap commitments as core government business.
We’re nowhere near on track to meet our targets nationally, and here in the ACT the gap has remained stagnant or even widened in multiple critical areas.
We’ve been talking about Closing the Gap for the past 20 years, and I really believe the ACT can be the first state or territory to actually do it."
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