Health

More ACCHO’s in the suberbs

More cultural awareness for staffing/carer’s & organisational education

Genuine insentives for first peoples lead staffing within the age care system.

Yeah. Health, I think, coming from indigenous family, a lot of my sort of grandparents and rellies have health issues like diabetes and lots of stuff. So I think having I think more awareness and more support out there that they can feel comfortable to go to those places and get checked out, having things available for them. I know a lot of my family doesn’t like going to sort of mainstream health care. So I think having that at the forefront would be really great.

I know it happened.

There are no assessment for children born to parents that have used ice during pregnancy in Australia. This is a big issue facing our kids in care and the medical establishment needs to adopt an assessment similar to the one they have for FASD. Alot of our kids are falling through the cracks due to undiagnosed.

Only as suggested above re: VAHS. No other issues for me.

Free costs for cancer treatment, heart and diabetic medications, childbirth.

I would like to see significant changes to the way Indigenous health and cultural awareness training is taught to mainstream health staff. I would like to see more hiring of Indigenous doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, liaison officers etc, to better support the health outcomes for First Nation patients. I would like to see a better system for identifying problematic / racist mainstream health staff, and a process which ensure retraining through cultural awareness program. I would like to see a system where every First Nation patient is encouraged to complete a survey of their experiences, and these are independently reviewed to determine which health services / departments are failing First Nation clients, and a process for re-training, review, or dismissal for staff who continue to create unsafe spaces for First Nation peoples.