The truth is: a business as usual approach towards Indigenous Australians is not
working... We need a new beginning — a new beginning which contains
real measures of policy success or policy failure; a new beginning, a new partnership, on closing the gap with
sufficient flexibility not to insist on a one - size - fits - all approach for each of the hundreds of remote and regional Indigenous communities across the country but instead allowing flexible, tailored, local approaches to achieve commonly - agreed national objectives that lie at the core of our proposed new partnership; a new beginning that draws intelligently on the
experiences of new policy settings across the nation...