Justice for Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Health: doing nothing is not an option!
Do you care about justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians?
Nowhere is justice for Aboriginal people in shorter supply than in the area of health.
For example, an Indigenous baby born today will live a life that is, on average, seventeen years shorter than a non-Aboriginal child’s. That child’s father has a 45% chance of dying before he’s 45 years old.
So bad is this situation that an average person in the developing countries of Nigeria and Bangladesh can expect to live ten years longer than an Indigenous person in the ‘developed world’ country of Australia.
Want to do something about it?
ANTaR is running a campaign to help close the Indigenous life expectancy gap within a generation. It’s called Healing Hands and Saving Lives.
We need to achieve is to get our governments to agree to a timeframe to close the gap, provide the resources and get on with it.
The campaign’s goal reflects the Human Rights Commision’s 2005 Social Justice Report that proposed that 25 years for achieving equality of health status and life expectation is realistic and achievable.
We need to achieve is to get our governments to agree to a timeframe to close the gap, provide the resources and get on with it.The campaign’s goal reflects the Human Rights Commision’s 2005 Social Justice Report that proposed that 25 years for achieving equality of health status and life expectation is realistic and achievable.
‘Perhaps the factor that is most striking, in its absence from the current framework, is the lack of a timeframe for achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality… The absence of such timeframes …. sends a message that it is fine for things to simply drift along.’ Tom Calma, Aboriginal Social Justice Commissioner
ANTaR’s campaign will focus on three areas: policy, the public and evidence.
Policy: ANTaR’s national network will lobby State, Territory and Federal parliaments. We'll also support Indigenous leaders who work first-hand on Indigenous health to access government and corporate decision makers, and the mass media.
The Public: we know the power of advertising in motivating the public – ANTaR’s Sea of Hands is proof that people respond to motivators for reconciliation. We will develop new public media to effectively reach the minds and hearts of all Australians.
Evidence: We need to prove through objective research that as well as saving and improving lives, huge economic savings will be achieved in the long run by sensible investment now.
It’s a massive campaign, and an uphill struggle. But with your support it can be done – it has to be done.
It is not hopeless: there are plenty of examples of success – often led by Aboriginal people taking the initiative and tackling health problems in their community.
For more details of the campaign and for the pledge of support to sign, click on:
ANTaR
Do you care about justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians?
Nowhere is justice for Aboriginal people in shorter supply than in the area of health.
For example, an Indigenous baby born today will live a life that is, on average, seventeen years shorter than a non-Aboriginal child’s. That child’s father has a 45% chance of dying before he’s 45 years old.
So bad is this situation that an average person in the developing countries of Nigeria and Bangladesh can expect to live ten years longer than an Indigenous person in the ‘developed world’ country of Australia.
Want to do something about it?
ANTaR is running a campaign to help close the Indigenous life expectancy gap within a generation. It’s called Healing Hands and Saving Lives.
We need to achieve is to get our governments to agree to a timeframe to close the gap, provide the resources and get on with it.
The campaign’s goal reflects the Human Rights Commision’s 2005 Social Justice Report that proposed that 25 years for achieving equality of health status and life expectation is realistic and achievable.
We need to achieve is to get our governments to agree to a timeframe to close the gap, provide the resources and get on with it.The campaign’s goal reflects the Human Rights Commision’s 2005 Social Justice Report that proposed that 25 years for achieving equality of health status and life expectation is realistic and achievable.
‘Perhaps the factor that is most striking, in its absence from the current framework, is the lack of a timeframe for achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality… The absence of such timeframes …. sends a message that it is fine for things to simply drift along.’ Tom Calma, Aboriginal Social Justice Commissioner
ANTaR’s campaign will focus on three areas: policy, the public and evidence.
Policy: ANTaR’s national network will lobby State, Territory and Federal parliaments. We'll also support Indigenous leaders who work first-hand on Indigenous health to access government and corporate decision makers, and the mass media.
The Public: we know the power of advertising in motivating the public – ANTaR’s Sea of Hands is proof that people respond to motivators for reconciliation. We will develop new public media to effectively reach the minds and hearts of all Australians.
Evidence: We need to prove through objective research that as well as saving and improving lives, huge economic savings will be achieved in the long run by sensible investment now.
It’s a massive campaign, and an uphill struggle. But with your support it can be done – it has to be done.
It is not hopeless: there are plenty of examples of success – often led by Aboriginal people taking the initiative and tackling health problems in their community.
For more details of the campaign and for the pledge of support to sign, click on:
ANTaR
posted by Pax Christi @ Monday, December 11, 2006
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