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Indigenous Australians frustrated' at slow progress

Indigenous Australians are somewhere between disappointed and frustrated" at a lack of traction on socio-economic targets, after a scorecard found most aren't being met.

You see those datasets that again reinforce what we heard even at the beginning of the year, and that is governments are not moving fast enough on this, it's frustrating.

It's not about finding a new pathway - certainly that's not what the productivity commission is saying. It's saying: share the decision-making - this is commonsense, governments talking to the people about the issues that impact them, and the solutions to solve that.