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Sebastian Tan and Keira Jenkins

Australia paying lip service to Closing the Gap: Thorpe

Senator Lidia Thorpe said Indigenous deaths in custody had been a crisis for 34 years or more. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Failure to bring Indigenous people's outcomes up to par with the rest of the community has led one outspoken senator to question the point of Closing the Gap targets.

The latest update from the Productivity Commission found just four of the 19 targets were on track to be met by 2031.

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