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Marnee Shay, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow School of Education, The University of Queensland

Aboriginal children as young as 5 are getting suspended from school. We can’t ‘close the gap’ if this is happening

The recent Closing the Gap report had some promising news for education, with a 25% increase in Aboriginal children enrolled in childcare over the past seven years.

But other report figures show there are still big issues to solve in schools. This includes only 68% of Indigenous people aged 20-24 finishing Year 12.

This comes on top of regular reporting of poor or “lagging” educational outcomes for Indigenous students.

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