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NSW priority reforms
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Aboriginal business growth
The NSW Roadmap for Aboriginal business growth takes what we heard from Aboriginal businesses and stakeholders through extensive consultation and conversations and transforms these ideas into concrete policy responses.
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The NSW Data Connector Service
This service gives one place for Aboriginal communities to go to access data. This makes it easier for Aboriginal communities to access Government held information.
National socio-economic targets
Everyone enjoys long and healthy lives
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enjoy long and healthy lives. | Close the Gap in life expectancy within a generation, by 2031. |
Children are born healthy and strong
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are born healthy and strong | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies with a healthy birthweight to 91 per cent |
Children are engaged in high quality, culturally appropriate early childhood education in their early years
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are engaged in high quality, culturally appropriate early childhood education in their early years. | By 2025, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children enrolled in Year Before Fulltime Schooling (YBFS) early childhood education to 95 per cent. |
Children thrive in the early years
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children thrive in their early years. | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children assessed as developmentally on track in all five domains of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) to 55 per cent. |
Students achieve their full learning potential
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students achieve their full learning potential. | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (age 20-24) attaining year 12 or equivalent qualification to 96 per cent |
Students reach their full potential through further education pathways
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students reach their full potential through further education pathways. | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 25-34 years who have completed a tertiary qualification (Certificate III and above) to 70 per cent. |
Youth are engaged in education and employment
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth are engaged in employment or education. | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (15-24 years) who are in employment, education or training to 67 per cent. |
Strong economic development of people and their communities
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Strong economic participation and development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 25-64 who are employed to 62 per cent |
People can secure appropriate, affordable housing that is aligned with their priorities and needs
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people secure appropriate, affordable housing that is aligned with their priorities and need. | By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in appropriately sized (not overcrowded) housing to 88 per cent. |
Adults are not overrepresented in the criminal justice system
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are not overrepresented in the criminal justice system. | By 2031, reduce the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults held in incarceration by at least 15 per cent. |
Young people are not overrepresented in the criminal justice system
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are not overrepresented in the criminal justice system. | By 2031, reduce the rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people (10-17 years) in detention by 30 per cent. |
Children are not overrepresented in the child protection system
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are not overrepresented in the child protection system. | By 2031, reduce the rate of over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care by 45 per cent. |
Families and households are safe
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and households are safe. | A significant and sustained reduction in violence and abuse against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children towards zero. |
People enjoy high levels of social and emotional wellbeing
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enjoy high levels of social and emotional wellbeing. | Significant and sustained reduction in suicide of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people towards zero. |
People maintain a distinctive cultural, spiritual, physical and economic relationship with their land and water
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people maintain a distinctive cultural, spiritual, physical and economic relationship with their land and waters. | a) By 2030, a 15 per cent increase in Australia’s landmass subject to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s legal rights or interests. b) By 2030, a 15 per cent increase in areas covered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s legal rights or interests in the sea. |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and languages are strong, supported and flourishing
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and languages are strong, supported and flourishing. | By 2031, there is a sustained increase in number and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages being spoken. |
By 2026, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will have equal levels of digital inclusion
| Outcome | Target |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have access to information and services enabling participation in informed decision-making regarding their own lives. | By 2026, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have equal levels of digital inclusion |
Closing the Gap data
The Productivity Commission publishes regular updates on how Closing the Gap progress is tracking.