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.

It was bad and still has ongoing negative impact on First Peoples lives

I know it happened.

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.

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.

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

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