Generational inequality for Indigenous Australians won’t be solved overnight, the prime minister says, after a scorecard found many socio-economic targets aren’t being met.

Only five out of 19 Closing the Gap targets are on track, the Productivity Commission’s Annual Data Compilation Report released on Thursday shows.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government was still committed to closing the gap targets, but change would not be immediate.

“The challenges are there, you can’t resolve intergenerational inequality overnight, but what you can do is be committed to making a difference,” he told reporters in Sydney on Thursday.

“Governments of all persuasions, at all levels, have not done enough in the past, but we’re committed to working with those communities.”

But Catherine Liddle, chief executive of the peak body for Indigenous children and families, SNAICC, said the federal government needed to do better because “screaming from the rooftop for ages” wasn’t working.

“You see those data sets that again reinforce what we heard even at the beginning of the year, and that is governments are not moving fast enough on this, it’s frustrating,” Liddle told ABC TV.

Liddle said a fresh approach wasn’t needed because the evidence shows the areas where there is success give communities control of decision-making processes.

“It’s not about finding a new pathway, certainly that’s not what the Productivity Commission is saying,” she said.

“It’s saying, share the decision-making - this is common sense, governments talking to the people about the issues that impact them, and the solutions to solve that.”

AAP