Review finds Close the Gap policy 'effectively abandoned'

Labor Senator Pat Dodson

Labor Senator Pat Dodson at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 8, 2018. Source: AAP

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A review into a program started a decade ago to address Indigenous disadvantage - the Close the Gap policy - has found it's been effectively abandoned.

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