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Close the Gap - Part 4 Acknowledgments

Close the Gap - Part 4 Acknowledgments

The coalition for Indigenous Health Equality

Since the release of the 2005 Social Justice Report, a coalition of organisations and individuals has worked for the adoption of its recommendations and an end to Indigenous health inequality in Australia:

  • Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory;
  • Amnesty International Australia;
  • Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Committee;
  • Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine;
  • Australian Council of Social Services;
  • Australian Council for International Development;
  • Australian General Practice Network;
  • Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Indigenous Dentists’ Association of Australia;
  • Australian Institute of Health and Welfare;
  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies;
  • Australian Medical Association;
  • Australian Nursing Federation;
  • Australian Red Cross;
  • Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation;
  • Caritas Australia;
  • Clinical Nurse Consultants Association of NSW;
  • Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses;
  • Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health;
  • Diplomacy Training Program, University of New South Wales;
  • Fred Hollows Foundation;
  • Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University;
  • Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Human Rights Law Resource Centre;
  • Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for Youth;
  • Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales;
  • Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney;
  • Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign;
  • Menzies School of Health Research;
  • National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and NACCHO Affiliates;
  • National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council;
  • National Association of Community Legal Centres;
  • National Children’s and Youth Law Centre;
  • National Rural Health Alliance;
  • Oxfam Australia;
  • Public Health Association of Australia;
  • Professor Ian Anderson, Onemda Health Unit, VicHealth;
  • Quaker Services Australia;
  • Reconciliation Australia;
  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians;
  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners;
  • Rural Doctors Association of Australia;
  • Save the Children Australia;
  • Sax Institute;
  • Sisters of Mercy Aboriginal Network NSW;
  • Sisters of Mercy Justice Network Asia Pacific;
  • UNICEF Australia;
  • Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre; and
  • Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.

The Steering Committee for Indigenous Health Equality

The Steering Committee for the campaign was formed in March 2006.

The Leadership group of the Committee comprises:

  • Chair, Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
    Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Dr Mick Adams, Chair, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Dr Christopher Bourke, Indigenous Dentists’ Association of Australia;
  • Dr Sally Goold OAM, Chair, Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses;
  • Mr Andrew Hewett, Executive Director, Oxfam Australia; and
  • Dr Tamara Mackean, President, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association.

The Steering Committee comprises representatives from the following organisations:

  • Chair, Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
    Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Australian General Practice Network;
  • Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Australian Medical Association;
  • Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation;
  • Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses;
  • Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health;
  • Fred Hollows Foundation;
  • Heart Foundation;
  • Indigenous Dentists’ Association of Australia;
  • Menzies School of Health Research;
  • National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Oxfam Australia;
  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners;
  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians; and
  • Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula District Health Service.

Steering Committee member representatives have included:

  • Ms Vicki Bradford, Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses;
  • Dr Ngiare Brown, Menzies School of Health Research;
  • Ms Lisa Briggs, Oxfam Australia;
  • Dr Margaret Chirgwin, Australian Medical Association;
  • Ms Donna Clay, Oxfam Australia;
  • Ms Dameeli Coates, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Henry Councillor, former Chair, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health
    Organisation;
  • Dr Sophie Couzos, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Ms Dea Delaney Thiele, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Mr Darren Dick, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Mr Brian Doolan, Fred Hollows Foundation;
  • Mr Alison Edwards, Fred Hollows Foundation;
  • Mr James Ensor, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Bruce Francis, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Rohan Greenland, Heart Foundation;
  • Ms Mary Guthrie, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Mr Gary Highland, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Australia;
  • Mr Christopher Holland, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Ms Bettina King, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Mr Traven Lea, Heart Foundation;
  • Dr Tamara Mackean, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Dr Naomi Mayers, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation;
  • Mr Romlie Mokak, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Ms Cyndi Morseau, Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula District Health Service;
  • Ms Mary Osborn, Royal Australasian College of Physicians;
  • Dr Maurice Rickard, Australian Medical Association;
  • Mr Justin Mohamed, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Mr Poyana Pensio, Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula District Health Service;
  • Ms Jo Pride, Oxfam Australia; and
  • Dr Mark Wenitong, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association.

Professor Ian Ring, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Commerce, Centre for Health Services
Development, University of Wollongong, and Daniel Tarantola, Professor of Health and Human Rights at the University of New South Wales, provided expert assistance to the Steering Committee.

The targets working groups

The targets presented here have been developed by 3 working groups of the Steering Committee. Each was led by a notable Indigenous person with extensive health experience:

  • Dr Mick Adams, Chair, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Associate Professor Dr Noel Hayman, Royal Australasian College of Physicians; and
  • Dr Ngiare Brown, Menzies School of Health Research.

Target Working Group members and advisors included:

  • Dr Christopher Bourke, Indigenous Dentists’ Association of Australia;
  • Ms Vicki Bradford, Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses;
  • Mr Tom Brideson, Charles Sturt University’s Djirruwang Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
    mental health program;
  • Dr David Brockman, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research;
  • Dr Alex Brown, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute;
  • Professor Jonathon Carapetis, Menzies School of Health Research;
  • Dr Alan Cass, The George Institute for International Health;
  • Professor Anne Chang, The Queensland Centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery;
  • Dr Margaret Chirgwin, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Dr John Condon, Menzies School of Health Research;
  • Mr Henry Councillor, former National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Dr Sophie Couzos, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Professor Sandra Eades, Sax Institute;
  • Ms Dea Delaney Thiele, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Mr Mick Gooda, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health;
  • Dr Sally Goold OAM, Chair, Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses;
  • Ms Mary Guthrie, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Associate Professor Colleen Hayward, Kulunga Research Network and Curtin University;
  • Ms Dawn Ivinson, Royal Australasian College of Physicians;
  • Dr Kelvin Kong, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Dr Marlene Kong, Australian Indigenous Doctors Association;
  • Mr Traven Lea, Heart Foundation;
  • Dr Tamara Mackean, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Dr Naomi Mayers, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation;
  • Mr Romlie Mokak, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association;
  • Professor Helen Milroy, Associate Professor and Director for the Centre for Aboriginal
    Medical and Dental Health;
  • Professor Kerin O’Dea, Menzies School of Health Research;
  • Dr Katherine O’Donoghue, Indigenous Dentists’ Association of Australia;
  • Ms Mary Osborn, Royal Australasian College of Physicians;
  • Professor Paul Pholeros AM, University of Sydney;
  • Professor Ian Ring, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Commerce, Centre for Health Services
    Development, University of Wollongong;
  • Professor Fiona Stanley AC, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research;
  • Professor Paul Torzillo AM, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred
    Hospital;
  • Dr James Ward, Collaborative Centre for Aboriginal Health Promotion;
  • Ms Beth Warner, Royal Australasian College of Physicians;
  • Associate Professor Ted Wilkes, National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee of the
    Australian National Council on Drugs; and
  • Dr Mark Wenitong, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association.

Target Secretariat

  • Ms Lisa Briggs, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Christopher Holland, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; and
  • Professor Ian Ring, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Commerce, Centre for Health Services
    Development, University of Wollongong.

Others

The Campaign and Summit Secretariat

  • Ms Jessica McAlary, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Ms Cara Bevington, Oxfam Australia;
  • Ms Lisa Briggs, Oxfam Australia;
  • Ms Kirsten Cheatham, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Ms Dameeli Coates, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Darren Dick, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Ms Amber Doyle, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Brett Harrison, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Mr Christopher Holland, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Ms Christina Kenny, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; and
  • Ms Julia Mansour, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

The Campaign and Summit communications/media team

  • Mr David Britton, Fred Hollows Foundation;
  • Ms Dameeli Coates, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Chris Hallet, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Mr Gary Highland, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Australia;
  • Ms Louise McDermott, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Ms Boronia Mooney, Australian Medical Association;
  • Mr Paul Oliver, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; and
  • Mr Dewi Zulkefli, Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association.

Special Thanks

  • Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare;
  • Professor Ian Anderson, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community
    Development Unit;
  • Ms Kerry Arabena, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies;
  • Dr Sandra Bailey, Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council;
  • Mr Lester Bostock, Aboriginal Disability Network, NSW;
  • Mr David de Carvalho, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health;
  • Ms Deborah Cummings, Reconciliation Australia;
  • Mr Peter Daniels, Productivity Commission;
  • Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations;
  • Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet;
  • Department of the Treasury;
  • Ms Michelle Flaskas, Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for Youth;
  • Ms Catherine Freeman;
  • Get Up!;
  • Gilbert and Tobin;
  • Mr Damian Griffis, Aboriginal Disability Network, NSW;
  • Professor Shane Houston, Department of Health NT;
  • Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission financial and legal departments;
  • Professor Paul Hunt, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest
    attainable standard of health;
  • Professor Ernest Hunter, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, University of
    Queensland;
  • Indigenous Community Volunteers;
  • Mr Steve Larkin, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies;
  • Mr Jimmy Little and his management team;
  • Ms Barbara Livesy, Reconciliation Australia;
  • The Hon. Jenny Macklin MP, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and
    Indigenous Affairs and her staff;
  • Ms Andrea Mason, Reconciliation Australia;
  • Dr Louise Morauta, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet;
  • Ms Lesley Podesta, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health;
  • Mr Marc Purcell, Oxfam Australia;
  • Ms Debra Reid, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health;
  • Dr Peter Robinson, Department of the Treasury;
  • The Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing and her staff;
  • Mr Mark Thomann, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health;
  • Mr Ian Thorpe;
  • Ms Peta Winzar, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
    Affairs;
  • Mr Ian Woolverston, Oxfam Australia; and
  • Mr Bernie Yates, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
    Affairs.

The following generously contributed funds and resources towards the
Summit

  • Australian General Practice Network;
  • Australian Indigenous Doctor’s Association;
  • Australian Medical Association;
  • Caritas Australia;
  • Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing;
  • Fred Hollows Foundation;
  • Heart Foundation;
  • Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission;
  • Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for Youth;
  • National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation;
  • Oxfam Australia;
  • Save the Children Fund; and
  • Professor Daniel Tarantola.
  • Volunteers at the Summit
  • Ms Judee Adams, Oxfam Australia;
  • Ms Cara Bevington, Oxfam Australia;
  • Ms Rachel Boehr, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Paddy Cullen, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Grant Hill, Oxfam Australia;
  • Mr Neil Holden, Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses;
  • Mr Juan Martorana, Oxfam Australia;
  • Ms Ann Matson, Oxfam Australia; and
  • Ms Karina Menkhorst. Oxfam Australia.

Summit Organiser

Ms Dolly Nye

Nye Communications

dolly@nyecom.com

And thank you to any other person or organisation that has been involved in the Campaign or the Summit but has been inadvertently omitted from this list.