The 25th Garma Festival - Australia’s largest Indigenous gathering - has just wrapped up in the Northern Territory. PM Anthony Albanese was there, and he promised to fund training and economic opportunities for Indigenous Australians. But, as the latest Closing the Gap report shows, there’s still a long way to go when it comes to improving the lives and life expectancy of First Nations people across the country. So in this Squiz Shortcut, we’ll cover what the Closing the Gap agreement involves, what the latest figures show, and what’s being done to address the issues…

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Looking: At this gallery/report in The Guardian from this year’s Garma Festival...

Reading: The Productivity Commission’s latest Closing the Gap data is a good place to start if you’d like to take a closer look at the numbers....

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