Appendix D: A Brief Sketch of an Innovative Approach To the Reversal of Indigenous Inequality in Australia As a Template for the Possible Reversal of Non-Indigenous Inequality, and v.v (original) (raw)
In this exploratory paper I will proffer a series of reflections as preparatory material for policy formation that, hopefully, could be used to address inequality in general, and, more particularly, but not specifically, this differential aspect as observed in the context of Australian Indigenous Life-Worlds. This differential deficit in the latter is known in Australia as 'The Gap'. 1 'Closing the Gap' has been the preoccupation of numerous recent governments, both on Federal and State levels, and which, collectively, and overall, it could be argued, have had very little to show for their accumulative efforts; especially in the light of the quantum of resources given to its proposed amelioration and closing. 2 In one recent set of policy directives (in the policy area of health) this was tentatively projected as occurring around 2030? However, the current rate of progress is such that this goal could not be realistically realized given those policies already in place as they stand! In the light of such past and current failures it is obvious that innovative approaches to this question need to be seriously re-explored; preferably by the chief stakeholders in these indigenous life-worlds in consultation with those policy professionals able to successfully expedite the formation of policy redirection that is found to be better able to realize this important political imperative.
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