Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Liddle, I may not agree with every policy prescription you have, but I respect your commitment on these issues. What I would say to you—and I think you know this—is that no government of any political persuasion has delivered the sorts of outcomes on Closing the Gap targets that we would want, whether it's governments from your side of politics or ours, state or federal. We know that, and we have to do better.

I hope that, in this term, we see continued improvement on some of the targets that we are seeing now, and I hope the four targets you mentioned, which I was upfront about as worsening, are ones that we can turn around. We know that all of us—this parliament and governments of all political persuasions at state, federal and territory levels—have to work together to try and ensure we do better on these targets for— (Time expired)