63:(COAG) made a commitment to work together to reduce the disparity between outcomes in areas such as life expectancy, health, education, and imprisonment, for non-Indigenous Australians compared with Indigenous Australians. The National Indigenous Reform Agreement (NIRA) included a strategy called "Closing the Gap", which laid out targets in reducing inequalities in these areas. This framework included plans for new programs and services, stronger reporting requirements, and a process by which progress on the targets could be measured. Some Indigenous people were involved in the development of the strategy, but it was mostly done by governments. Progress on achieving the targets was slow, for various reasons which included inadequate community involvement. In 2016, 14 community-controlled peak organisations wrote to
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