Close The Gap

Blog Post | Blog of Rachel Siewert
Tuesday 18th September 2007, 1:52pm
by RachelSiewert in

Despite yesterday's unanimous agreement in the Senate of the urgent need to ‘Close the Gap' on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, the Senate today voted against taking the immediate steps required to implement this commitment.

Over 80 000 ordinary Australians, including Ian Thorpe, Michael Long and Cathy Freeman, have all signed on to the Close the Gap pledge within recent weeks - but today both major parties refused to follow their lead.

I've posted a short video on my YouTube Channel, explaining the desperate need for the Government to address this problem.

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Well done, Senator. Close

Well done, Senator.
Close The Gap is an important campaign that it's obvious the Government is keen to ignore.
They want to throw money at things like buying back aborigines land but don't stop to think about what would be best to actually help them.

by John Harris on Thursday 20th September 2007 at 2:58pm

I'm wearing a "close the

I'm wearing a "close the gap" band bought from Oxfam. Let's show our colours on this issue.

by Philip Machanick on Thursday 20th September 2007 at 9:42pm

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