Description

This document is the first Annual Report on the progress of the Australian Local Government Association’s (ALGA) Closing the Gap Implementation Plan.

Under the National Agreement, all state and territory governments’ Implementation Plans are to be whole-of-government plans, covering government agencies and statutory bodies (local governments are statutory bodies under the relevant Local Government Act in their jurisdiction). In addition, state and territory government Implementation Plans are to include information on how they will work with their local councils. ALGA’s Annual Report, therefore, seeks to complement jurisdictional Annual Reports and does not report on the 537 individual local governments across the nation.

This Annual Report provides a high-level assessment of ALGA’s progress to implement its Plan and provides information on progress on the four priority reforms of the Closing the Gap Agreement.