It’s been a few months but in case you missed it here is the Prime Minister’s Closing the Gap speech delivered to Parliament on 9th February 2012. Following that is a copy of the report.
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I couldn’t make it to the biannual National Rural Health Conference this year.
One of the speakers was Tom Calma. Below is a video of his short presentation (8 mins in) and the slide show titled “Indigenous Health and Closing the Gap” . I urge you to watch it
Indigenous Health and Closing the Gap
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- Closing the Gap discussion paper on School attendance and retention of Indigenous Australian students http://bit.ly/9vYZ1D
- Hermannsburg Indigenous community tackles school truancy with improved community relations and resources http://bit.ly/ctSr7e
- Hermannsburg to Harbour: remote kids take in Sydney as a reward for school attendance and performance http://bit.ly/dCJpSM
- EVERY Anglican school has a program to help Aboriginal ed or at least improve awareness of the plight of indigenous http://bit.ly/ascX37
- Australia targets Aboriginal truancy. A discriminatory program as aimed primarily at Indigenous communities http://bit.ly/9HfZke
- Worawa Aboriginal College changed from co-education to all-girls. Only Aboriginal girls school in Australia http://bit.ly/8WXSmV
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- NPY Womens Council hold a dialysis forum in APY lands at 30th birthday celebrations. No men, no local health service? http://bit.ly/aiPX4z
- Our black health gap: less spent on primary aboriginal health http://bit.ly/b03ls1
- GPs can Close the Gap through better ID of Indigenous patients to improve their access to Medicare benefits http://bit.ly/dhTc09
- Lowitja Institute & ANU have launched a new publication with recommendations on how GPs can help Close the Gap http://bit.ly/8YL7WX
- 15,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with low vision and 3,300 who are blind http://bit.ly/d8T9HM
- THE NT’s most remote bush health clinic has received a stamp of approval in AGPAL accreditation http://bit.ly/d9C1IX
- Community groups organised a free bus to transfer Indigenous to regular medical appointments http://bit.ly/9RwoBx
- VICTORIAN Aboriginals are missing out on crucial interventions to manage heart disease or discharge early from hospital http://bit.ly/daozdG
- Nation’s psychiatrists have reignited call for a constitutional amendment to recognise Australia’s indigenous people http://bit.ly/cVv8Mf
- More than three tonnes of kava has been seized in remote Arnhem Land communities in the past 18 months. http://bit.ly/aACxEk
The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.
The categories I use for Indigenous News Updates can be found here.
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
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