Closing the Gap: more than $420m to be spent on water, housing and food security

Additional funding of more that $420m has been announced in efforts to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

More than $420m will be spent on a new plan providing clean water, food security and housing to Indigenous Australians, the government will announce today.

The next step in the Closing the Gap implementation plan accompanies the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations (Coalition of Peaks) annual implementation plan.