The draft agreement includes national socio-economic targets in areas including education,employment,health and wellbeing,justice,safety,housing,land and waters,and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.
Joint Council co-chair Pat Turner said it was the first agreement of its kind that would be signed by Australian governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,represented bythe Coalition of Peaks.
"We are making history,"Ms Turner said."A real game changer for this next phase of Closing the Gap is that the expertise and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on what works and what is needed is at the centre."
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She said the new agreed targets,to be released later this year,would help to monitor progress in improving the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people following a decade of failings to make serious inroads into the original 2008 targets.
The targets are built around four new priority reforms aimed at transforming the way governments work with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in order to improve outcomes.
That means including Indigenous Australians in shared decision-making at the national,state and local or regional level and embedding ownership,responsibility and expertise to help close the gap.