Labor to set close the gap justice target

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has committed to a justice closing the gap target if re-elected to reduce the number of indigenous people in prison.

A Federal Labor government would set a closing the gap target for reducing indigenous incarceration rates.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten told Sky News from Uluru his party would set a target to reduce the number of indigenous people - particularly young men - behind bars.

The opposition has previously urged the government to add a justice target to the closing the gap strategy, a proposal the former Abbott government ruled out.