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Closing the First Nations employment gap will take 100 years

  • Written by Reza M. Monem, Professor of Accounting, Griffith University

In 2008 Australia’s federal, state and territory governments set the goal of halving the employment gap between First Nations Australians and others within a decade. That required, by 2018, lifting the employment rate for First Nations Australians from 48% to 60%, with the rate for other Australians being 72%.

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