My Rural Story | Week One | Jacinta Elston

the last 200 years in terms of making any decisions about themselves, and so there’s some huge issues that are facing us with AboriginalandTorresStraitIslanderhealth, and if we’re going to see any improvement at all, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to be leading that. So working with them, bringing them to the table at the time that programs are designed,decisionsarebeingmade,letting them take the run on delivering on these programs becomes critically important. And so I think that for any health service provider in the future, understanding that you won’t go anywhere, we won’t go anywhere as a country in improving Indigenous health, unless we have this being achieved in partnership with Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander people.

If we’re going to see any improvement at all, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to be leading that.

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