Health

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.

More focus on a holistic approach instead of having multiple appointments for ranging issues, would help unclog the medical services.

My understanding is limited – but I am aware there was enormous dislocation and genocide of First Peoples in Victoria. That First Peoples were driven off their land and have not had the opportunity to receive the benefits of that land for many generations. I am aware that they were punished for trying to continue their cultural practices and speak their language. They continue to be disproportionately incarcerated and subject to discrimination. Even places like Coranderrk were eventually taken away from First Peoples as more and more limitations and controls were imposed on the lives of Aboriginal Victorians. But I also know they remain strong – and their connection to land and Country remain strong – despite the efforts of colonisation to separate them from their land. I know that the Sovereignty of First Peoples in Victoria has never been ceded and that this remains Aboriginal land and will continue to do so.

Colonisers stole land from the first nations people to develop and build into the city with devastating effects of the wellbeing of first nations people, still being felt today.

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

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

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

More ACCHO’s in the suberbs