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From the Prime Minister's Office:

Source: https://education.gov.au/indigenous-schooling

The Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott MP has recommitted to the Closing the Gap targets under the National Indigenous Reform Agreement between the Australian Government and state and territory governments. These targets include a focus on access to education; school attendance; improving reading, writing, and numeracy; and finishing school.

A good education is essential for a good future and that starts with making sure children and young people go to school every day. State and territory governments have agreed to a range of measures through the Council of Australian Governments to improve Indigenous school attendance. These measures include publishing twice-yearly data on school attendance for all students and additional support, such as school attendance officers, to ensure children attend school.

Although school education and training is the responsibility of state and territory governments, there is a range of work underway within the Australian Government education portfolio to support Indigenous students and families, including:

• new needs based school funding arrangements, an estimated $195.25 million has been committed in Commonwealth recurrent funding in 2014 for the Indigenous student loading which will assist schools to provide additional support for students.
• an additional $6.8 million in the 2014–15 Budget for all non-government schools with 50 or more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boarding students from remote and very remote areas. This new measure will also include schools where at least 50 per cent of boarders are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from remote and very remote areas – thereby ensuring that small schools don’t miss out.
• $22 million over four years to the Flexible Literacy for Remote Primary School Programme to address the disparity in literacy outcomes of children in remote primary schools and their metropolitan peers through the delivery of two proven literacy teaching approaches (Direct Instruction and Explicit Instruction). Although the majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples live in metropolitan areas, there is a higher population density of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in remote locations.

The Government is also taking actions under the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Action Plan 2010–2014 which has a specific focus on school attendance.