The Healing Foundation Development Team has released the report Voices from the campfires: Establishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation. Continue reading
Category: Policies
Native Title housing amendment discussion paper
The Australian Government released a discussion paper on 13 August 2009 about possible amendments to the Native Title Act 1993 to accelerate the process for the construction of public housing and infrastructure in remote Indigenous communities. Continue reading
Indigenous representative body proposed
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, has provided a report outlining a proposed new structure for a body to replace ATSIC, which was disbanded in 2005. Continue reading
COAG holds meeting with Indigenous focus
The main purpose of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on 2 July 2009 in Darwin, was to discuss further measures to overcome Indigenous disadvantage. Continue reading
New portfolio announced for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery
A new portfolio for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Services Delivery has been created in a Federal Government Cabinet shuffle. Continue reading
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation consultations begin
The Healing Foundation Development Team has begun conducting community workshops across Australia to listen to ideas for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation. The establishment of the Healing Foundation was announced by the Australian Government in its 2009-10 Budget and funding of $26.6 million over four years was allocated. Continue reading
The Australian Government Budget 2009-10: information of relevance to Indigenous health
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan delivered his second Australian Government Budget on Tuesday evening, 12 May 2009. The following links provide information on the Budget and its implications for Indigenous health. Continue reading
Announcement of Australia’s support of the UN Indigenous rights declaration
Australia has officially backed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, reversing the Howard Government’s vote against it in 2007. Continue reading
Minister for Health and Ageing outlines the Rudd Government’s plans to ‘Close the gap’
The Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, outlined the Rudd Government’s plans to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians at the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses Annual Conference, ‘CATSIN Dreaming’, held on 10 September 2008 in Adelaide. Continue reading
Inaugural Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Advisory Board meeting
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet‘s Advisory Board convened for the first time on 18 September 2008. The purpose of the Advisory Board is to provide expert strategic advice to the Director and Executive Group of the HealthInfoNet to assist in optomising the HealthInfoNet‘s contributions to “closing the gap” between the health of Indigenous and other Australians.The Advisory Board’s inaugural meeting focused on the history, objectives, and funding directions of the HealthInfoNet.
The Advisory Board is constituted of the following members:
- Mick Adams, Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
- Ian Anderson, Director of Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit and the Centre for Health and Society, Deputy Head of the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, Research Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, and National Chairperson of teh National Indigenous Health Equality Council
- Jenny Brands, Research and Development Manager of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH)
- Jonathan Carapetis, Director of Menzies School of Health Research
- Mick Gooda, CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health (CRCAH)
- Sally Goold, current Chair and founder of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN)
- Tamara Mackean, President of the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association (AIDA)
- Kathy Malera Bandjalan, Editor of the Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal (AIHWJ)
- Ian Ring, Professor of Public Heath and Professorial Fellow-Academic Development, Centre for Health Services Development, University of Wollongong, NSW
- Cindy Shannon, Director of the Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland
- Ted Wilkes, Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University of Technology, WA
- Ken Wyatt, Director of Office of Aboriginal Health, Health Department of Western Australia
- Representatives from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Lynne Mitchell and Eve Cordeiro
The next meeting of the Board will occur in early 2009.
