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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.
