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Close the Gap - National Indigenous Health Equality Targets

Close the Gap - National Indigenous Health Equality Targets

Outcomes from the

National Indigenous Health Equality Summit

Canberra, March 18–20, 2008


Our challenge for the future is to embrace a new partnership between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The core of this partnership for the future is closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians on life expectancy, educational achievement and employment opportunities. This new partnership on closing the gap will set concrete targets for the future: within a decade to halve the widening gap in literacy, numeracy and employment outcomes and opportunities for Indigenous children, within a decade to halve the appalling gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and, within a generation, to close the equally appalling 17-year life gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous when it comes to overall life expectancy.

The Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd MP

Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples,

13 February 2008


Contents

Preface

Part 1. Background

Part 2. Outcomes from the National Indigenous Health Equality Summit

Part 3. Looking to the Future

Essentials for Social Justice: Close the Gap, a speech by Mr Tom Calma,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
IQPC Collaborative Indigenous Policy Conference, Brisbane, 11 June 2008

Part 4. Acknowledgments