This is a Statement of Intent — between the Government of Australia and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia, supported by non-Indigenous Australians and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and
non-Indigenous health organisations — to work together to achieve equality in health status and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.
The originating Close the Gap Statement of Intent — between the Government of Australia and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, supported by non-Indigenous Australians and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and
non-Indigenous health organisations — was never truly adopted and the Close the Gap strategy has only been partially implemented.
Not exact matches
The Close the Gap Campaign for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health Equality is a coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous health and human rights organisa
Health Equality is a coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and
non-Indigenous health and human rights organisa
health and human rights
organisations.
In furtherance of this commitment, the government signed a Statement of Intent to work in partnership with Indigenous people and their representative
organisations to achieve equality in
health status and life expectancy between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and
non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.
The Government furthered its commitment in March 2008 when, along with the federal Opposition, it signed a Statement of Intent to work in partnership with Indigenous people and their representative
organisations to achieve equality in
health status and life expectancy between Indigenous and
non-Indigenous Australians by the year 2030.
That's the underlying challenge in the submission to the proposed changes lodged yesterday, the final day for public input, by the Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee — a coalition of Australia's leading Indigenous and
non-Indigenous health and human rights
organisations.
We hope that the outcomes of the Round - table will be of real value and interest to Indigenous and
non-Indigenous health professionals, community
organisations, state and federal government agencies, researchers, artists, writers, film makers and journalists.
The first observation is that the conference provided an opportunity for a collective of interested
non-Indigenous organisations (including the National Mental
Health Commission) and representatives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (including an Arnhem Land Elder and law custodian and members of the sexuality and gender diverse population), to gather in the same space to share their concerns and listen to each other, on an issue that is at catastrophic portions.
Scroll through the Facebook pages of some of Australia's largest
non-Indigenous non-government mental
health organisations (NINGOS) and count the number of Aboriginal people represented.
A
non-Indigenous psychiatrist, Professor Alan Rosen, from the
organisation Transforming Australia's Mental
Health Service Systems (TAMHSS), writes below that a recent apology from Australian psychologists has set an important, global precedent.
That beyondblue has the resources to individually reply to a wide range of Indigenous and
non-Indigenous individuals, advocates and
health professionals to defend their Chairperson, tells us as much about them as an
organisation as it does their Chairperson.
With that in mind, he urged
non-Indigenous organisations, decision makers, management and politicians to «understand why we get a bit uppity sometimes» and comply with some «very basic, easy to do principles» that are non-negotiable for «fixing» Indigenous
health:
AIDA is also looking to expand its Associate membership category, to tap into the multiple partnerships that it has with numerous stakeholders and
organisations across the country, including medical schools, post-graduate medical educational bodies, regional training providers, and Indigenous and
non-Indigenous health advocacy bodies.
Australia's peak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and
non-Indigenous health bodies,
health professional bodies and human rights
organisations operate the Close the Gap Campaign.
It was also the catalyst for the formation of a coalition of more than 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and
non-Indigenous peak
health bodies and non-government organisations to progress what became known as the Close the Gap Campaign for Indigenous Health Equ
health bodies and non-government
organisations to progress what became known as the Close the Gap Campaign for Indigenous
Health Equ
Health Equality.
Politicians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and
non-Indigenous health sector, and human rights
organisations, made a public stand in committing to this agenda.
The Close the Gap Coalition, of which Reconciliation Australia is a Steering Committee member, is a group of Indigenous and
non-Indigenous health and community
organisations — together with over 200,000 Australians — calling on governments to take real, measurable action to achieve Indigenous
health equality by 2030.
In April 2007, 40 of Australia's leading Indigenous and
non-Indigenous health peak bodies and human rights
organisations joined forces to launch a campaign to «Close the Gap» on
health inequality.
Since 2006, and with the leadership of the Social Justice Commissioner, Australia's peak Indigenous and
non-Indigenous health bodies, NGOs and human rights
organisations have been working as a coalition to achieve
health and life expectation equality for Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
It is a coalition of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and
non-Indigenous health and human rights
organisations.