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ANTaR is proud to introduce to you Peggy Nampijinpa Brown OAM

Peggy led the establishment of the successful grassroots community program at Mt Theo that addresses substance abuse issues among Indigenous youth.

Take a read of Peggy's story (PDF 346k)

Indigenous health equality - fulfilling the Government's funding commitments

At the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on 29 November, Australia’s state and federal heads announced they will invest significant new funds into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

The federal government will contribute $806 million and the states will collectively contribute $772 million over the next four years. This is the biggest single injection of Indigenous health spending in decades.

COAG has made a real commitment towards Closing The Gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians by committing funding to back up the promises they made earlier in the year.

Congratulations to everybody who has participated in the Close The Gap campaign – and its forerunner, ANTaR's Healing Hands campaign. Collectively we have achieved this outstanding result.

Help ANTaR continue its campaigning efforts by donating today.

Close The Gap campaign

Since the Close the Gap campaign was launched in April 2007, over 100,000 people have signed the pledge calling for government action to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

A month after the historic parliamentary apology to the Stolen Generations, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and then-Opposition Leader Dr Brendan Nelson signed a statement of intent with Indigenous health leaders committing both sides of politics to the major long-term task of closing the gap.

Now, these good intentions need to be followed by action.

The Close The Gap steering committee have presented the government with a detailed plan of the targets needed to close the gap.

Events

The 2010 Hal Wootten Lecture

to be delivered by Albie Sachs, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa ‘A man called Henri: truth, reconciliation, justice and gross violations of the past’

Date: Tuesday 14 September 2010
Time: 6.15pm for a prompt 6.30 start
Venue: The Law Theatre, Faculty of Law, UNSW Kensington Campus
RSVP: Register online
An iconic figure in the struggle against apartheid, Albie Sachs went on to play a key role in South Africa’s road to reconciliation. He was one of the first judges appointed to the new Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela. In 1996, the Constitutional Court, which interprets the country’s Bill of Rights, handed down a decision which upheld the law allowing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to grant civil and criminal indemnity to perpetrators of torture and assassination under apartheid. Some months later, Albie Sachs met Henri, a security operative who had participated in the 1988 attempt to assassinate him in Mozambique.

In the 2010 Hal Wootten lecture, Albie Sachs will reflect on the role of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the different meanings of truth in a complex society and the place of restorative justice in the contemporary world.