Indigenous employment forecasts: implications for reconciliation

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Abstract

Current government policy seeks to achieve 'practical reconciliation' between Indigenous and other Australians by focusing on closing the gap in the key social policy areas of health, housing, education and employment. Reflecting on progress to date, Altman and Hunter (2003) have analysed a range of Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes over the reconciliation decade of 1991 to 2001 concluding that there is little statistical evidence so far from census information to indicate a narrowing of the gap in the manner sought.