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IBERA helps close the gap

The gap between the health of Indigenous Australians and the rest of our population is a scandal. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have a life expectancy 17 years less than other Australians.
Last week an innovative tool was launched in Canberra which aims to help ‘Close the Gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancy rates in [...]

Sorry

Today is an incredibly important day in the history of Australia.
This is the apology that will be made to Australia’s Indigenous community in Federal Parliament, Canberra, today.
Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past mistreatment.
We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those [...]