Prime Minister Julia Gillard has decided to make visits to indigenous health services with the aim to reduce the gap between black and white disadvantages.

Addressing the National Press Club today, indigenous social justice Commissioner Mick Gooda stated that the PM has accepted an invitation to visit indigenous health services to understand the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

In addition, he said, “I reckon somewhere down the track someone will challenge it and come to the Human Rights Commission and probably ask the question regarding this discriminatory practice. It's possible to have a policy that in theory is non-discriminatory but if it impacts disproportionately on one group of people it can be”.

Though The Human Rights Commission has not received any complaints about the policy under the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) but Labor has extended income management to all "vulnerable" people in the territory, regardless of their race.

Under this initiative, 50% of income support and family payments are held back to ensure that the money was spend on priority items such as food, housing, clothing and utilities.

In his speech to the press club, he said that he would like to see the evidence which could prove that stopping peoples' money really forced them to send their children to school.