The government has asked indigenous leaders to consider tying school attendance to native title agreements.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion urged attendees to join him in reversing the "national disaster" of indigenous school truancy during an address to the annual native title conference.
Native title organisations could hold back royalty payments until outside the school week or factor attendance into native title agreements, he said.
"We must get indigenous children to school," he told the conference in Coffs Harbour on Monday.
"If we do nothing, we are all culpable."
The Abbott government has committed $46 million to employ almost 700 truancy officers to help get children to school in indigenous communities.
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