Appendix 1: Implementation Plan Actions

Table 4: Priority Reform actions
PR Action 1.1	Develop and implement a Whole-of-Victorian Government (WOVG) Closing the Gap Coordination Framework (Coordination Framework).
PR Action 2.1	Develop and implement a Victorian Flexible Funding and Evaluation Framework for Aboriginal organisations (Framework).
PR Action 2.2	Develop and implement WOVG guidance on the implementation of clause 55 in the National Agreement.
PR Action 2.3	Develop a Sector Strengthening Strategy for the ACCO and TOC sectors, in partnership with Aboriginal organisations and the First Peoples’ Assembly of Gellung Warl.
PR Action 3.1	Conduct a review of Closing the Gap reporting arrangements for government departments (Reporting Review).
PR Action 3.2	Develop WOVG guidance on embedding the Priority Reforms and National Agreement commitments in other intergovernmental agreements.
PR Action 3.3	Develop a Victorian Closing the Gap Joint Communications Strategy.
PR Action 4.1	Support the alignment of approaches to Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Governance across government with the National Agreement Priority Reforms.
PR Action 4.2	Identify and establish datasets aligned with the socio-economic targets in the National Agreement to enhance data access for Aboriginal organisations.

Table 5: Socio-economic target actions
SET Action 1.1	Develop a WOVG strategy to acknowledge, prioritise and support Aboriginal-led holistic models of care in ACCO-delivered health and wellbeing services.
SET Action 2.1	Support integrated models of care within health and wellbeing services that are centred around Aboriginal holistic approaches to family wellbeing.
SET Action 3.1	Establish and recognise a clearly defined Aboriginal Community-Controlled early years education and development sector.
SET Action 3.2	Support the rights of Aboriginal children and strengthen Aboriginal inclusion and cultural safety in universal early years services.
SET Action 4.1	Aboriginal-led design and embedding of culturally appropriate metrics to assess the development of Aboriginal children.
SET Action 4.2	Support integrated models of care that are centred around Aboriginal holistic approaches to family wellbeing, which may include an ACCO-led Early Parenting Model.
SET Action 5.1	Develop an educational access and engagement strategy for Aboriginal children and young people.
SET Action 5.2	Support schools and vocational education and training providers across Victoria to strengthen cultural safety and responsiveness, including compliance with Child Safe Standards.
SET Action 6.1	Support in the process to review Registered Training Organisation (RTO) accreditation requirements for ACCOs.
SET Action 6.2	Support the development of a framework to strengthen partnerships with tertiary education and training organisations (including TAFEs, RTOs and universities).
SET Action 6.3	Develop an approach to address barriers to achieving tertiary qualifications for Aboriginal students, including for accessing systems and resources on Country.
SET Action 6.4	Partner with the ACCO RTO sector to recognise, establish and resource universally accredited courses.
SET Action 6.5	Recognise and support pathways into the Aboriginal sector workforce and support Aboriginal students to complete tertiary education.
SET Action 7.1	Support the delivery and implementation of a resource to support Aboriginal young people as they transition to adulthood.
SET Action 8.1	Support the development and implementation of current Aboriginal economic strategies and approaches.
SET Action 8.2	Support the development and implementation of Aboriginal Workforce Strategies.
SET Action 8.3	Recognise the work performed by Aboriginal employees associated with a cultural responsibility and support greater retention of employees in the Aboriginal sector.
SET Action 9.1	Support the ongoing implementation of Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort: Every Aboriginal Person has a home – the Victorian Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Framework (VAHHF).
SET Action 9.2	Support homelessness reforms and implementation of the Blueprint for the Aboriginal specific homelessness system in Victoria (Blueprint).
SET Action 9.3	Embed the VAHHF’s goals of self-determination and strengthen Aboriginal cultural safety in public housing and the community housing and homelessness sector.
SET Action 10.1	Develop and implement the Aboriginal Justice Agreement, Phase 5 (AJA5), an Aboriginal-led partnership to address the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the justice system and improve justice outcomes for Aboriginal people.
SET Action 10.2	Take action to combat systemic racism and negative impacts of colonisation that increase the likelihood of Aboriginal people having contact with the justice system.
SET Action 10.3	Develop and implement Aboriginal-led early intervention, and community investment initiatives to strengthen connection to culture and communities, reducing the likelihood of Aboriginal people having contact with the justice system and entering custody.
SET Action 10.4	Develop and implement Aboriginal-led restorative justice and justice diversion programs and initiatives to reduce the negative impacts of the justice system on Aboriginal people.
SET Action 10.5	Provide Aboriginal-led supports for Aboriginal people in contact with the justice system.
SET Action 11.1	Develop and implement the Aboriginal Justice Agreement, Phase 5 (AJA5), an Aboriginal-led partnership to address the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children and young people in the justice system and improve justice outcomes for Aboriginal children and young people.
SET Action 11.2	Implement Wirkara Kulpa Aboriginal Youth Justice Strategy 2022-2032 (Wirkara Kulpa) to improve justice outcomes for Aboriginal children and young people.
SET Action 11.3	Take action to combat systemic racism and the ongoing impacts of colonisation, supporting healing and restoring fairness. Strengthen culturally safe and Community-led approaches that keep Aboriginal children and young people strong in culture and connected to family, Community and Country, and out of the justice system.
SET Action 11.4	Develop and implement Aboriginal-led early intervention and community-based initiatives that strengthen cultural identity, family and Community connection, and prevent Aboriginal children and young people from offending.
SET Action 11.5	Develop and implement Aboriginal-led diversion and restorative justice alternatives that are grounded in culture, family and Community, providing meaningful pathways for Aboriginal children and young people to repair harm and address offending behaviour outside the justice system.
SET Action 11.6	Provide culturally safe and strong supports for Aboriginal children and young people in contact with the justice system, while strengthening accountability and Aboriginal community leadership in decisions that affect them.
SET Action 12.1	Prioritise Aboriginal-led service design and investment that strengthens early and tailored supports for Aboriginal people in contact with the child protection system, with agreed indicators to monitor outcomes.
SET Action 12.2	Increasingly re-direct investment in prevention and early intervention services from government and Community Service Organisations (CSOs) to ACCOs delivering specialised child and family services, proportionate to the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the child protection system.
SET Action 13.1	Review family, domestic and sexual violence service models for Aboriginal people in Victoria.
SET Action 13.2	Develop a strategy to support the expansion of family violence services to meet demand across Victoria, including on Country where possible.
SET Action 13.3	Support Aboriginal-led prevention programs that address the drivers of violence against Aboriginal women and children before it starts.
SET Action 14.1	Continue to support the Aboriginal community-controlled sector and broader health and wellbeing sectors to improve Aboriginal social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB); and evaluate the Balit Murrup - Aboriginal Social Emotional Wellbeing Framework 2017-2027 (Balit Marrup framework).
SET Action 14.2	Continue to work towards implementation of tailored Aboriginal responses to mental health crisis aligned with Royal Commission recommendations 8, 9 and 10 and commitments made to the Yoorrook Justice Commission Social Justice Hearings.
SET Action 15.1	Set the inland waters target and enable Traditional Owner groups to exercise their legal rights and interests over inland waters.
SET Action 15.2	Develop a clear strategy in partnership with formally and non-formally recognised Traditional Owner groups to meet target 15a set out under the National Agreement and enable Traditional Owners to exercise their legal rights and interests over land.
SET Action 15.3	Develop a clear strategy in partnership with formally and non-formally recognised Traditional Owner groups to meet target 15b set out under the National Agreement and enable Traditional Owners to exercise their legal rights and interests over Sea Country.
SET Action 16.1	Develop a long-term Aboriginal-led Language revitalisation strategy and accompanying implementation plan.
SET Action 17.1	Support national responses and work to progress Aboriginal digital inclusion to ensure progress is made towards all Aboriginal people having equal access to digital information and services.

Updated 9 October 2026