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Australia's minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, says early childhood education enrolment for First Nations children has reached a milestone in the Closing the Gap initiative. McCarthy credits the Aboriginal and community-controlled sector and preschool workers for the progress, but acknowledges that other targets remain challenging — particularly the high incarceration rates of Indigenous people, which she says requires states and territories to do more on justice factors.

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