Newsletter date: 23 October 2013
Contents:
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Gerry Georgatos, Wes Morris & Tauto Sansbury about suicide in First Nations communities
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: EMPOWERMENT [Featuring Aboriginal suicides around the nation]
* Jeff McMullen, The Stringer: Children of the Sunrise [Featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and fulfillment]
* NACCHO mental health news: Aboriginal mental health gap must be closed: Calma Dudgeon
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Tammy Kimpton, President of The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA)
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Jody, Brooke and Aaron restoring sight
* NACCHO health conference alert: Health Workforce National Conference to discuss Close the Gap initiatives and supporting workforce
* NACCHO press release: NACCHO launches new Aboriginal Health in Aboriginal Hands App
* NACCHO Aboriginal health alert: Report reveals Aboriginal socio-economic disadvantage
* Tracker: Kidney disease hits harder in the bush
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: WA's education cuts hit Aboriginal students hardest
* LET'S TALK'S TIGA BAYLES INTERVIEWS GERRY GEORGATOS, WES MORRIS & TAUTO SANSBURY ABOUT SUICIDE IN FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES
- Audio Interviews
Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane:
Let's Talk - Gerry Georgatos, Wes Morris & Tauto Sansbury
http://www.989fm.com.au/category/podcasts/lets-talk/
14 Oct 13: "Gerry Georgatos, Journalist and Co-Editor of The Stringer
Wes Morris, The Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC) coordinator
Tauto Sansbury, Narungga man from Point Pearce Mission on the Yorke Peninsula, owner of Garrigja Organisation"
Listen to this interview on-line:
http://www.989fm.com.au/podcasts/lets-talk/gerry-georgatos-wes-morris-ta...
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: EMPOWERMENT [FEATURING ABORIGINAL SUICIDES AROUND THE NATION]
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: EMPOWERMENT
http://thestringer.com.au/empowerment/
19 Oct 13: "Aboriginal suicides around the nation have spiralled out-of-control, few regions have been spared. Twenty years ago, Aboriginal suicide rates were the equivalent of the national rate but now they are three fold, and in some regions spates of suicide have reached 100 times the national average. Many Australians are asking what are the ways forward? There are those who are working on this but are our governments listening? Most say, our governments are not listening. Last week, The Stringer attended a national conference on 'Empowerment' chaired by Australia’s first Aboriginal psychologist, Professor Pat Dudgeon, ... " By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
* JEFF MCMULLEN, THE STRINGER: CHILDREN OF THE SUNRISE [FEATURING ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HEALTH AND FULFILLMENT]
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: Children of the Sunrise
http://thestringer.com.au/children-of-the-sunrise/
19 Oct 13: "Look at the future through the eyes of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child in any family, urban, rural or in a remote community. These are the Children of the Sunrise, descendants of the world’s oldest and most resilient cultures. Yet can anyone say that Australia has succeeded in offering all of these children today a fair and equal chance of health, a good home, a first-rate education, life-fulfilling work and happiness? ... Even just 20 years ago Indigenous suicide rates were are at the same rate for all Australians. ... " By Jeff McMullen
* NACCHO MENTAL HEALTH NEWS: ABORIGINAL MENTAL HEALTH GAP MUST BE CLOSED: CALMA DUDGEON
- News
NACCHO mental health news: Aboriginal mental health gap must be closed: Calma Dudgeon
[NACCHO: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation]
http://nacchocommunique.com/2013/10/21/naccho-mental-health-news-aborigi...
21 Oct 13: "Writing in the Australian head of the 20th anniversary todays of a landmark indigenous mental health report, Tom Calma and Pat Dudgeon (pictured above). Recommended providing indigenous Australians with the training, power and resources needed to determine and deliver our own mental health strategies, within our terms of cultural reference and understandings of mental health. And in the article below about Aboriginal suicide. Call on governments to do more to prevent Aboriginal people choosing death. "While we take great pride in the emergence of an indigenous mental health leadership, we are also frustrated that little on the ground has apparently changed," ... "
* BACKGROUND TO SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM IN ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES:
Last updated: 17 October 2013
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/08/13/background-to-suicide-and-self-harm-i...
* LET'S TALK'S TIGA BAYLES INTERVIEWS TAMMY KIMPTON, PRESIDENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS DOCTOR'S ASSOCIATION (AIDA)
- Audio Interviews
Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane:
Let's Talk - Tammy Kimpton
http://www.989fm.com.au/category/podcasts/lets-talk/
17 Oct 13: "President of The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA)"
Listen to this interview on-line:
http://www.989fm.com.au/podcasts/lets-talk/tammy-kimpton/
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: JODY, BROOKE AND AARON RESTORING SIGHT
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: Jody, Brooke and Aaron restoring sight
http://thestringer.com.au/jody-brooke-and-aaron-restoring-sight/
19 Oct 13: "Former Congress of First Peoples’ co-chair, Jody Broun, high profile NITV journalist Brooke Boney and ex-AFL footballer Aaron Davey are getting right behind the Fred Hollows Foundation – raising funds to save or restore sight – by running Sydney’s Coastrek in February. They’re doing the training miles for the tough coastline event. "Coastrek is a fabulous opportunity to support a very worthy cause, but its also about meeting personal challenges and improving fitness. I hope our team inspires and motivates other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be involved and look at their own health and fitness," said Ms Broun." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
* NACCHO HEALTH CONFERENCE ALERT: HEALTH WORKFORCE NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS CLOSE THE GAP INITIATIVES AND SUPPORTING WORKFORCE
- News
NACCHO health conference alert: Health Workforce National Conference to discuss Close the Gap initiatives and supporting workforce
[NACCHO: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation]
http://nacchocommunique.com/2013/10/21/naccho-health-conference-alert-he...
21 Oct 13: "National initiatives to close the gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy and to build the supporting health workforce will be discussed and debated at Health Workforce Australia’s (HWA) 2013 national conference in November. Information and registrations here ... The life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is more than 10 years less than other Australians. In 2008, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to close the gap in life expectancy within a generation by 2031. This commitment affects all health professionals and the way care is provided."
* NACCHO PRESS RELEASE: NACCHO LAUNCHES NEW ABORIGINAL HEALTH IN ABORIGINAL HANDS APP
- Media Release
NACCHO press release: NACCHO launches new Aboriginal Health in Aboriginal Hands App
[NACCHO: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation]
http://nacchocommunique.com/2013/10/17/naccho-press-releasenaccho-launch...
17 Oct 13: "The chair of National Aboriginal Community Controlled health organisation (NACCHO) this week joined with the AFL Indigenous All Stars at its International rules training session in Melbourne to launch Australia’s first Aboriginal Health APP. ...
Mr Mohamed said it was quite appropriate to publicly launch the NACCHO Aboriginal Health App in front of 25 of the fittest Aboriginal males in Australia, because the new APP compliments NACCHO’s Investing in Healthy Futures for Generational Change plan 20130-2030 and sports activity is a key element to Close the Gap. ...
"Our APP promotes the sports healthy futures program that will give Aboriginal youth the opportunity to improve their overall health and wellbeing through active participation in sports.
Research shows that if a young person is happy and healthy they will be able to get the most out of their education, build their confidence and their self-belief and hopefully one day become a well-educated "Indigenous All-star" in the sport or employment of their choosing." Mr. Mohamed said."
* NACCHO ABORIGINAL HEALTH ALERT: REPORT REVEALS ABORIGINAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE
- News
NACCHO Aboriginal health alert: Report reveals Aboriginal socio-economic disadvantage
[NACCHO: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation]
http://nacchocommunique.com/2013/10/16/naccho-aboriginal-health-alert-re...
16 Oct 13: "In a recent article in The Australia outlined that Indigenous Australians are more likely to live in neighbourhoods where the rest of the population is relatively disadvantaged. More than a third of indigenous Australians (36.6 per cent) live among the most disadvantaged 10 per cent of the population and only 1.7 per cent live among the top 10 per cent. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE ... The paper, by the Australian National University’s Nicholas Biddle, finds that in every area analysed, the Indigenous population had higher levels of socioeconomic disadvantage than the non-indigenous population."
* TRACKER: KIDNEY DISEASE HITS HARDER IN THE BUSH
- News
newsTracker: Kidney disease hits harder in the bush
http://tracker.org.au/2013/10/kidney-disease-hits-harder-in-the-bush/
17 Oct 13: ""We found much higher rates in remote areas, particularly for women. This was likely due to the high proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in these areas," Ms McGlynn said. [AIHW spokesperson Lisa McGlynn] "Chronic kidney disease is particularly common in Indigenous Australians. For example, in Major cities dialysis hospitalisation rates for Indigenous Australians were around 8 times those of other Australians, and this difference increased substantially in Remote and very remote areas. ... ""
* GERRY GEORGATOS, THE STRINGER: WA'S EDUCATION CUTS HIT ABORIGINAL STUDENTS HARDEST
- Analysis / Opinion
The Stringer: WA's education cuts hit Aboriginal students hardest
http://thestringer.com.au/was-education-cuts-hit-aboriginal-students-har...
20 Oct 13: "Following WA’s tough cuts on education, it is Aboriginal students and the State’s most vulnerable students who have been hit hardest. Many remote Aboriginal schools already doing it tough will be hit harder than other schools across the State in widespread cuts to the schools resources allocation program. ... The hits on the these predominately Aboriginal student schools are five and six times the proportional cut in funding to Perth and in major towns where the student populations are predominately non-Aboriginal." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist
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