By: RUDI MAXWELL

The National Agreement on Closing the Gap was supposed to mean decisions are made in partnership with Indigenous communities, but governments need to deliver.

* The goal of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap is to overcome the entrenched inequality faced by too many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people so that their life outcomes are equal to all Australians

* The agreement was developed in partnership between Indigenous representatives and all Australian governments

* It is built around four priority reform outcomes and 17 socioeconomic targets (and agreement to develop two additional targets, on inland waters and community infrastructure)

* The Productivity Commission found governments have, largely, not fulfilled their commitments

* Governments have failed to fully grasp the nature and scale of change required to meet the obligations they signed up to

* It made four recommendations to government: share power; recognise and support Indigenous data sovereignty; fundamentally rethink mainstream government systems and culture; and implement stronger accountability