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Review finds Close the Gap policy 'effectively abandoned'

Labor Senator Pat Dodson at the Close the Gap parliamentary breakfast event at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 8, 2018.

Labor Senator Pat Dodson at the Close the Gap parliamentary breakfast event at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 8, 2018. Source: AAP

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A review into a program started a decade ago to address Indigenous disadvantage has found it's been effectively abandoned.

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