PM 'not contemplating failure' on closing the gap

Only four of the 19 Closing the Gap targets are on track to be met. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Failing to meet Closing the Gap targets should not be contemplated, the prime minister says, despite just four measures being on track to being met.

In his annual Closing the Gap speech to parliament on Thursday, Anthony Albanese said the government was still determined to meet the targets addressing disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.