With World Suicide Prevention Day approaching on 10 September, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP), headed by Australian University Chancellor Professor Tom Calma and Indigenous Mental Health Commissioner Pat Dudgeon, have issued the statement below calling for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide rates, which are among the highest in the world, to
become a national priority and subject to a national inquiry or Royal Commission.
Extract: «The mathematicians harshly criticized a «crusade [that] has invaded every area of activity and everyone's thinking,» noting that «the battle [against] CO2 has
become a national priority.
Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race To The Top (RTTT), raising student achievement (as measured by standardized assessments) and attainment (as gauged by outcomes such as graduation and postsecondary success) have
become national priority.
From the United States to Korea, fostering entrepreneurs has
become a national priority, pursued with energy, ambition and imagination.»
«Coastal resiliency and disaster risk reduction have
become a national priority, and healthy coastal ecosystems play an important role in building resilient communities,» said Holly Bamford, Ph.D., acting assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management at NOAA, and co-author of the study.
Michael Aryeetey, Chief Operating Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), who spoke on behalf of Alex Mould, the CEO of GNPC, stated: «Energy has
become a national priority.
Lowering the primary cesarean rate has
become a national priority.
Improving health care, particularly for the aging, has also
become a national priority.
There is more momentum in the states now than at any time since education reform
became a national priority with the release of A Nation at Risk in 1983.
Not exact matches
«We believe AI technology will
become a
priority on the government's agenda, and we expect further
national / regional policy and funding support on AI to follow,» the bank said in a report titled «China's Rise in Artificial Intelligence.»
Only with a renewed theological vision can the church in the U.S.
become a moral force in the resetting of
national priorities.
Now that the 2018 budget has been passed; CAMA is about to
become a reality; and primary healthcare for hundreds of millions of Nigerians is finally within reach — as a medical doctor and a former banker, Saraki's vision as the President of the Senate and Chairman of the 8th
National Assembly is coming alive before our very eyes as the people - centered
priorities of the 8th Assembly are being actualized.
As Hillary Clinton opened up double - digit leads in several
national polls, it
became possible to imagine Democratic control of both houses of Congress — and with it, actual legislative gains on progressive
priorities for the first time since 2010.
His plan, the New Education Bargain, calls for community schools, lower class sizes, more career programs and a focus on early literacy — all things that have
become state and
national priorities.
She considers it a
national priority to keep them enfranchised, as otherwise the notorious lack of a science work force in this country will
become a self - fulfilling prophecy.
We would do well to take heed of this survey's finding, add it to the finding of BESA that teachers feel insufficiently trained and make it a
national priority to both educate and protect our young people as they
become the next generation of (digital!)
This will require an even bolder voice demanding new
national investment
priorities to ensure America has a competitive labor force, diplomatic corps and military in the 21st century world and
becomes a beacon in a world desperately hungering for a moral example by its treatment of all of its children.»
Kevin Courtney, the deputy general secretary of the
National Union of Teachers, said: «Finally the government has come clean on its education
priorities and admitted that its real agenda all along has been that every school must
become an academy.
Teacher quality — whatever that means —
became something of a
national priority under President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative.
But when energy concerns
became a
priority during World War II, the U.S. government stepped in to create
national speed limits.
As reported in Fleets and Fuels, «As more and more Americans realize that freedom from dependence on foreign oil is a
national priority, the viability of American produced natural gas has
become forefront.»
With the
national credit crunch and tightening of lending guidelines, it has
become a
priority for most San Diego homeowners to lock into a secure mortgage with a guaranteed fixed interest rate.
Also, as climate finance
becomes increasingly available at the global level, it would be essential to enact appropriate assimilative
national capacity in Pakistan to direct this finance towards nationally identified priorities as well as channelize it transparently and efficiently through consolidated financial mechanisms like a National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through thi
national capacity in Pakistan to direct this finance towards nationally identified
priorities as well as channelize it transparently and efficiently through consolidated financial mechanisms like a
National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through thi
National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through this study.
... Unexpectedly, some U.S. Democrats and Republicans have
become united in the view that building such a superior hybrid is an issue of
national security and deserves the highest of
priority.
If ever nuclear
become a necessity and
national priority per need of low cost power and elimination of CO2 environmental problems... it would happen without delay.
While regional councils were given the capacity to advise on
national funding
priorities, in practical terms they
became focused on program management.
On the
national front, mental health has
become a
priority with increased grant funding and the call for innovative educational programs — with the long - term aim of reducing health disparities and increasing overall health and mental health enhancing behaviors.