Indigenous reform

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: Performance report for 2009–10

This is the council’s second year report on the National Indigenous Reform Agreement, reporting progress against the objectives and outcomes compared to the baseline data summarised in the 2008–09 report on performance.

This report was submitted to COAG on 29 April 2011, and publicly released on 8 June 2011.

The 2010 NAPLAN results were also released on 29 April 2011, and therefore could not be included in the council’s report. At COAG’s request, the council has published a supplement, with an analysis of the 2010 NAPLAN results for Indigenous students.

This supplement was publicly released on 8 June 2011.

This report was considered by COAG at its 19 August 2011 meeting. COAG's response to the report can be found on the COAG website.

• Executive summary – DOC 181KB | PDF 190KB
• Full report (Volume 1) – DOC 3.58MB | PDF 1.75MB
• Performance data (Volume 2) – PDF 5.4MB
• Good practice report – PDF 1.22MB
• National Indigenous Reform Agreement: Supplement on literacy and numeracy achievement 2010 – DOC 1.01MB | PDF 305KB

Report by section:

• Executive summary – DOC 177KB | PDF 190KB
• PART A: Introduction – PDF 256KB
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
• PART B: Outcomes reporting – PDF 561KB
  • Chapter 2. Closing the Gap targets and trajectories
  • Chapter 3. Life expectancy
  • Chapter 4. Child mortality
  • Chapter 5. Access to early childhood education
  • Chapter 6. Literacy and numeracy achievement
  • Chapter 7. Year 12 attainment
  • Chapter 8: Employment outcomes
  • Chapter 9. Improvements to the performance reporting framework
• PART C: National Partnerships that support National Agreements – PDF 317KB
• Chapter 10. National Partnerships that support the National Indigenous Reform Agreement
• PART D: Good practice and performance – PDF 248KB
• Chapter 11. Highlighting good practice and performance
• Appendix A: Roles and responsibilities – PDF 123KB
• Appendix B: Operating environment and policy context – PDF 566KB
• Appendix C: Changes to the performance reporting framework – PDF 117KB
• Appendix D: Treatment of data issues – PDF 178KB
• Appendix E: Reporting National Partnerships that support the National Indigenous Reform Agreement – PDF 335KB
• Appendix F: Closing the Gap targets and trajectories – PDF 253KB
• Appendix G–I: Acronyms and abbreviations, Reference list and List of figures, boxes and tables – PDF 191KB

National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Economic Participation: Early assessment of progress

The COAG Reform Council was asked by COAG to provide an early assessment of progress under the National Partnership Agreement on the Indigenous Economic Participation (IEP NP) in response to delays in implementing the Agreement.

The IEP NP is the framework for the Commonwealth, States and Territories, apart from Tasmania, to work together to meet the COAG target to halve the gap in employment outcomes between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians within a decade.

Overall, the council found that while significant progress had been made since December 2009, there was still much work to be done to ensure that jurisdictions met their targets.

This advice was submitted to COAG on 9 July 2010.

COAG publicly responded to this advice at its 13 April 2012 meeting. COAG's response can be found on the COAG website.

• Full Assessment - DOC 746KB | PDF 164KB

National Indigenous Reform Agreement: Baseline performance report for 2008–09

The COAG Reform Council’s National Indigenous Reform Agreement: Baseline performance report for 2008–09 brings together much of the existing data on the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians on various measures of economic and social wellbeing.

It also outlines the commitments COAG has made to effect real change in the lives of Indigenous Australians.

This report was submitted to COAG on 30 April 2010, and publicly released on 4 June 2010.

COAG publicly responded to this report at its 19 August 2011 meeting. COAG's response can be found on the COAG website.

Some of the documents on this page have been made available in Portable Document Format (PDF) only. If you need further assistance with alternative formats, please contact the COAG Reform Council on telephone (02) 8229 7377 or by email to coagreformcouncil@pmc.gov.au