Information Night - 5th March, 2007

These are the Killing Times:
Achieving Indigenous Health Equality
within a generation

Guest Speaker: Gary Highland - National Director,
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)

Contrary to popular belief, the largest killer of Aboriginal people during the European invasion of Australia wasn’t massacres, but introduced disease.

More than 200 years later, the greatest threat to Indigenous people in Australia is still disease, in most cases diseases that have long been eradicated in the non-Indigenous population.

Our inability as a nation to close the life expectancy gap between Indigenous people and other Australians raises the question of whether we are currently living through another Killing Time.

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.

Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) is campaigning to end Australia’s Indigenous health crisis within a generation. ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland explains what we will need to do to achieve this.

Following Gary’s talk Sharni Jones, Senior Aboriginal Health Education Officer for Northern Sydney Central Coast Health, will give an insight into the health issues surrounding local Aboriginal people, encompassing a holistic approach to the emotional, social, physical wellbeing of the Aboriginal community.

For further details please contact Vanessa on 9970 5456 or Lizzie on 9918 2594, or visit www.antar.org.au.

Please join us.

For further details please contact Aboriginal Support Group: Lizzie on 9918 2594 or Anna on 9913 7940.