Close the Gap Day 2025

20/03/2025

Diversity

Today is National Close the Gap Day, an annual celebration of the work of the community-led Close the Gap Campaign for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing. Closing the Gap is underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. It also recognises that structural change in the way governments work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is needed to close the gap.

National Close the Gap Day aims to bring people together, to raise awareness and to take meaningful action in support of achieving equal outcomes for First Nations Peoples by 2032.

Each year, the Close the Gap Campaign prepares a campaign report. This year’s report, authored by the Lowitja Institute on behalf of the Close the Gap Campaign, is titled ‘Agency, Leadership, Reform: Ensuring the survival, dignity and wellbeing of First Nations peoples’ and can be found here. The Report highlights the work of First Nations leaders who are creating lasting change to promote the survival, dignity and wellbeing of First Nations people, in spite of ongoing challenges.

More information about National Close the Gap Day 2025 can be found here.