Close the Gap - National Indigenous Health Equality Targets
Close the Gap - National Indigenous Health Equality Targets
Outcomes from the
National Indigenous Health Equality Summit
Canberra, March 18–20, 2008
Our challenge for the future is to embrace a new partnership between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The core of this partnership for the future is closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians on life expectancy, educational achievement and employment opportunities. This new partnership on closing the gap will set concrete targets for the future: within a decade to halve the widening gap in literacy, numeracy and employment outcomes and opportunities for Indigenous children, within a decade to halve the appalling gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and, within a generation, to close the equally appalling 17-year life gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous when it comes to overall life expectancy.
The Prime Minister, the Hon. Kevin Rudd MP
Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples,
13 February 2008
Contents
Part 1. Background
- The Close the Gap Campaign for Indigenous Health Equality
- Recommendations of the Social Justice Report 2005
- Open Letter to Australian Governments, April 2007
- Extracts from COAG Communiqués and related materials issued prior to
December 2007 containing commitments by Australian governments in relation
to Indigenous health - The December 2007 COAG Communiqué (extracts)
Part 2. Outcomes from the National Indigenous Health Equality Summit
- The Close the Gap Statement of Intent
- Close the Gap National Indigenous Health Equality Summit Targets Outline Summary
- Close the Gap National Indigenous Health Equality Targets
- The National Indigenous Health Equality Summit, March 20th 2008,
Great Hall, Parliament House, Canberra
Part 3. Looking to the Future
Essentials for Social Justice: Close the Gap, a speech by Mr Tom Calma,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
IQPC Collaborative Indigenous Policy Conference, Brisbane, 11 June 2008