An Anti-Racism Framework: Voices of First Nations Peoples

Date Fri, 01/11/2024 - 12:00

Artwork courtesy of First Nations Co.

This report serves as a foundational document for the development of a National Anti-Racism Framework.

Drawing from extensive consultations with over 496 contributors from city, remote and rural backgrounds. These voices not only highlight the urgent need for action, but also serve as a clarion call for systemic solutions to eradicate racism.

The First Nations consultations unveiled a complex and pervasive landscape of challenges faced by First Nations communities.

Urgent funding needed to support Indigenous community-led health solutions

The Close the Gap campaign has called for an urgent investment in community-led health services to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the country.

CLOSE THE GAP: We’re waiting but we will not be left wanting

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The Close the Gap Campaign looks forward to seeing a comprehensive report on the refreshed targets for Closing the Gap by July.

Learning from crisis

Six weeks ago I returned to my traditional homeland near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Thanks to modern technology, I am working remotely and continuing my duties as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.

Like many Aboriginal people, I chose to return to Country because COVID-19 travel restrictions made homeland communities the safest place to see out the pandemic. As a mature Aboriginal woman, I am statistically at greater risk from COVID-19. It was important to follow the advice of health experts.

We say: No more preventable deaths

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The Close the Gap Campaign has warned that only systemic reform will make up for the harrowing failure of the last 12 years of government policy on closing the gaps in health equity, social and economic disadvantage for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Close the Gap (2020)

Date Thu, 19/03/2020 - 12:00

We nurture our culture for our future, and our culture nurtures us.

A report prepared by the Lowitja Institute for the Close the Gap Steering Committee | March 2020

Executive Summary

With this report — We nurture our culture for our future, and our culture nurtures us — we have sought to reflect the reciprocal and cyclical relationship between culture and wellbeing, whereby nurturing culture keeps us, and our future generations, healthy and strong.

Close the Gap - Progress & Priorities report 2017

Date Thu, 16/03/2017 - 12:00

Closing the gap in health equality between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians is an agreed national priority. The Campaign continues to grow each year with 220,000 pledges having been made from across the Australian community, committing to seeing the health outcomes gap close in this generation – by 2030.

Generation to Close the Gap?

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At the heart of this nation, there is a fundamental wrong in the relationship between the First Peoples and non-Indigenous people.

We are divided between those who celebrate Australia Day without any thought of the implications of that day, and those who mourn Invasion Day and mark it as Survival Day, those for whom racism is an abstract noun, and those for whom racism is a concrete daily reality.

There is yet another division.

Close the Gap - Progress & Priorities report 2016

Date Mon, 08/02/2016 - 12:00

The Close the Gap Progress and priorities report 2016 was launched at Parliament House in Canberra on 10 February 2016 The report makes a number of recommendations and calls on governments to make Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing a major priority.

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