Oxfam Australias latest reports shows Indigenous disadvantage operates at an institutional level. The organisation is calling for better community engagement to address what it calls "appalling rates of disadvantage".
Oxfam's findings have been delivered just weeks before the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, which included Indigenous Australians in the national census and allowed the Commonwealth to create laws for them.
According to Oxfam Australia decades of failed Indigenous policy have condemned Aboriginal Australians to stark inequality and entrenched disadvantage.
The report found many fundamental rights of Aboriginal people have not progressed and much of the funding for Indigenous services was inadequate, misdirected, uncertain and lacked transparency.
Oxfam chief executive Helen Szoke says Indigenous disadvantage isn't getting the attention it deserves.
She says a properly funded Indigenous organisation is part of the solution.
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