Close the Gap in pictures
Almost 480,000 Australians have
participated in the Close the Gap campaign.
Schools around Australia participate in
National Close the Gap Day.
Olympic champions Catherine Freeman
and Ian Thorpe launched the Close the Gap
campaign in April 2007.
Musicians including Missy Higgins, John
Butler, Kev Carmody and Blue King Brown have
thrown their support behind Close the Gap.
There is a link between poor health
and racism.
Research has shown that racism is literally
making Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people sick.
The Indigenous population is
much younger overall than the
non-Indigenous population.
Rumbalara Aboriginal Corporation in
Shepparton, Victoria is one of Australia’s
more than 130 Aboriginal community
controlled health services.
Education is one of the key social
determinants of good health.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
still die on average between 10 and 17
years before other Australians.
In 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, senior
Ministers and the Federal Opposition signed a
Statement of Intent with Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander health leaders committing them to closing the
Indigenous life expectancy gap by the year 2030.
Australia’s first Indigenous surgeon,
Kelvin Kong is one of more than 150 Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander medical doctors now practicing.
Expanding this health workforce is essential.
Photo Credits
•Federation Square – Robert McKechnie/Oxfam Aus
•Missy Higgins Signs Pledge – Robert McKechnie/OxfamAus
•School kids at NCTGD Sydney – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus
•Olympic champions launch campaign – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus
•Racism makes me sick – ANTaR Australia
•Girls on jetty – Wayne Quillian/OxfamAus
•Checking blood pressure – John Sones/OxfamAus
•Mornington girl – Lara McKinley/OxfamAus
•Lower life expectancy – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus
•Rudd and Roxon sign the pledge – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus
•Kelving Kong – image supplied by Kelvin Kong.