The 2020 Closing the Gap report revealed that there is a discrepancy of around 10 percent between Indigenous students and non-Indigenous students (around 82 percent compared to 92 percent in 2019) when it comes to school attendance.
And, disappointingly, the target to halve this gap for Indigenous children in the five years up to 2018 was not met in any of Australia’s states or territories.
With this in mind it has
