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Improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is a priority under the Australian Government's National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes [1].

This is aggravated by the December 2013 decision of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) not to proceed with this National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health.

This is particularly important as there is insufficient attention to Indigenous nutrition as a contributor to chronic disease in recent policy initiatives, particularly the NPA on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes.

[7] National Partnership Agreement on Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health Outcomes, Council of Australian Governments, 2008.

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That is the biggest strength of the iPad Pro, and a very notable gap Microsoft is likely not going to close anytime soon, as most of the (still very few) apps in the Microsoft Store are designed to work on the primarily desktop - based Windows 10.

Every company needs a plan that maps its data processes and data handling procedures, identifies gaps and actions needed to close those gaps, and prioritizes these actions based on risk.

He feels like he's got a head start on the competition, and no one has moved to close the gap.

On April 26, the Cassini spacecraft flew closer to Saturn than ever before — between the gap that separates the planet from its rings.

On a national scale, leaders such as Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, and California Senator Kamala Harris are trying to address the issue of gender inequality, including efforts to close the pay gap.

Last fall, during an appearance on Meet the Press, Dimon said he thought cutting the pay checks of CEOs would do little to close the nation's wealth gap.

«On both Thanksgiving and Black Friday, the gap between mobile traffic and revenue is closing,» Mericle added.

Stopping at a port or in a fjord in northern Norway is more convenient for NATO subs because it's closer to the Norwegian Sea, though which Russian subs pass on the way to the North Atlantic, transiting the GIUK gap.

People spend three times more money on iOS shopping apps than they do Android ones, but some of the Pixel's features will help close this gap, according to the bank's analysts.

«It's hard to close the gap due to several reasons, mainly because of China's lack of innovativeness due to its weak intellectual property laws and government - led projects that focus on quantity over quality.»

Customize your plan by identifying your company's gaps and opportunity, and focus on the channels that bring you closer to your audience.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

TripAdvisor doesn't appear to be closing the gap on Expedia and Priceline any time soon.

A year on, annual economic growth has picked up — closing the gap with Germany and pulling away from other major European powers such as Britain and Italy.

We recently caught up with Saujani to find out more about her take on the challenges and opportunities in closing the gender gap.

This just happened in astonishing fashion when it was announced that Claire Foy, who plays the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the hit show The Crown, is getting $ 275,000 in back pay to close the gap on what she was making relative to male co-star (and mere husband to the queen) Matt Smith.

Analysts say Beijing is unlikely to cede any ground on policies meant to help close that gap.

Dollar Tree (DLTR) will pay about $ 8.5 billion to acquire Family Dollar, helping to close the gap on competitors Dollar General (DG) and Wal - Mart (WM).

The web hosting company found that it is relatively close to pay parity — though a gap does emerge when you zero in on women in top jobs.

In a report released Wednesday, the European Environment agency said Italy hasn't presented «any concrete plan» on how to close the gap with such credits.

The rules aim to close a gap in the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which established nutrition labeling on most foods, but not restaurant or other ready - to - eat foods.

The Conservatives program review this year will close the gap in expected revenue and spending growth somewhat but will still depend on rather dramatic growth rates in tax revenues.

On a larger scale, the program aims to help close a more significant gap.

Females still earn less (more on that here — which opens a pdf), but the gap is closing.

The exact figure remains to be seen, but the price tag on closing the gender wage gap in the public service and federally regulated workplaces, which together employ nearly 1.2 million people, will likely be significant.

Greene, founder of the Greene Institute, sponsored the Closing the Gap conference last week, hoping that attendees would develop solutions on creating a more inclusive global economy.

And as women in the U.S. have been closing in on men when it comes to the gender pay gap and traditionally - male occupations such as those in STEM, there are still many opportunities to come in breaking down gender stereotypes.

Below, the latest information on consumer credit offerings small businesses can use to close the AOV gap and increase revenue via customer loyalty.

Tiffany has been with the SSE for three years, and worked on the launch of its campaign to «close the gap on ESG reporting» within which the SSE asked all stock exchanges to commit to providing written guidance to listed companies on reporting ESG information.

Price action was horrible on the S&P 500 on Friday (May 4), as it gapped down, trended steadily lower intraday, then closed at the low of the session.

«Today's report shows that we need action now on our collective agenda for closing the human rights gap,» said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.

In February 2017, the TMX - backed, Advancing Innovation Roundtable, chaired by Yaletown partner, Salil Munjal, published a comprehensive report containing recommendations on how to close the growth capital gap in Canada, currently estimated at $ 4 billion and growing.

In fact, the stock market drop on October 31 was attributed in part to new polls showing the gap is narrowing between presidential candidates, with Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton.

Stocks recovered from a morning gap down to close lower but well off session lows, on light trade.

With the economy expected to resume above - potential growth in the near term, our expectation is that inflation will converge on 2 per cent as the output gap closes and the temporary effects of low oil prices and past exchange rate depreciation dissipate.

Maglan concentrated on investing in companies with economic difficulties in the United States but the low values in Puerto Rico and «the steps taken by the Governor to close the gap in the budget» attracted Maglan to invest for the first time in municipal debt.

Aimed at closing the gender gap in the tech sector, the startup challenge featured 10 finalists pitching their emerging tech ventures before a panel of prominent investors including Nisha Dua, Partner at BBG Ventures, Iana Dimkova, Director on Healthcare Investing Team at GE Ventures, John Ason, Angel Investor, and Erica Duignan Minnihan, Managing Partner, 1000 Angels.

The East Asia and Pacific region has closed on average 68 % of its gender gap.

(As an aside, that fiscal spend boost is probably not coming until Q2 2016 at the absolute earliest — though this is still within the BoC's 6 - 8 quarter projection horizon for getting inflation sustainably back on target / setting policy to close the output gap.)

And over the last three years, Total has slowly but surely closed the gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).

A new World Bank report focuses on the role digital technology plays in personal banking and how it can help close the financial inclusion gap.

SPY gapped up and closed lower Monday after leaving an unfilled up gap on Friday.

That's still well short of the $ 7.5 billion to $ 8 billion Netflix expects to spend on content this year, but it's quickly closing the gap.

However, yesterday's price action in EEM now makes our reward to risk ratio even more favorable for buy entry because the ETF gapped lower on the open, then reversed to close at its intraday high.

Mason Nelder @MasonNelder cites «Closing the leadership knowledge gap» as a huge challenge and how «It's on us -LSB-...]

Morningstar found 14 loans on properties where Gap occupies more than 80 percent of the space on a lease that expires within the next two years, which could put landlords and the investors in those loans at risk if the company decides to close more stores.