1.1 NACCHO CEO Pat Turner to build on the success of Aboriginal Community Control Health Services
1.2 National : 2017 NACCHO Members’ Conference and AGM Registrations : Only 28 days to go
2. Vic : VAHS ACCHO Healthy Lifestyle Team love supporting the Fitzroy Stars Netball Club
3.NSW : In the Shoalhaven region Aboriginal Health is everyone’s business
4.NT : Ken Wyatt opens our NACCHO #OchreDay2017 summit in Darwin
5. QLD : Inquiry into service delivery in remote and discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities : Draft report consultation
6.ACT : NACCHO/Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service mental health webinar in conjunction with the Mental Health Professionals Network
7.WA : Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service’s Tackling Indigenous Smoking team to create Anti Smoking Ads
8. Tas : Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre to celebrate our communities journey of breast cancer & raise awareness
9.SA : Aboriginal Health Council of SA and South Australian Aboriginal Chronic Disease Consortium
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1.1 NACCHO CEO Pat Turner to build on the success of Aboriginal Community Control Health Services
Pat Turner has been appointed for a further three years until July 2020 by the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) Board.
NACCHO Deputy Chairperson, Sandy Davis welcomed Ms Turner’s appointment highlighting her extensive life experiences in Aboriginal affairs, government, academia and corporate practice.
Sandy also ‘acknowledged her invaluable record of public service achievements and that her leadership style comes at an important time for NACCHO with new governance arrangements to be discussed with members’ at our Annual General Meeting in Canberra in November.
Pat will help create real, meaningful and lasting change for NACCHO that will strengthen community control and keep Aboriginal health in Aboriginal hands’ he said.
Pat recently finalised a new network funding agreement for supporting community controlled Aboriginal health service with the Commonwealth. This will allow for better, more targeted investment in efforts to close the health gap for Aboriginal people. Pat has consistently said that ‘governments at all levels must do more to join the dots between education, housing, employment and other social determinants if we are to significantly improve health outcomes for our people and Close the Gap they have spoken about for the best part of a decade.’
Pat has been delivering on the Board’s agenda to consult with members to update our NACCHO Constitution and she has spent the last few months criss-crossing Australia to obtain the views and opinions of our Members and Affiliates about NACCHO constitutional changes.
She will continue to work on strengthening and expanding the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector, maintaining its strategic directions, cutting unnecessary red tape and building a closer relationship between all our organisations. ‘We want to build on the success of community control in improving health outcomes for our people’ she said.
Pat is of Arrernte and Gurdanji descent and was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) in 1990 for her contribution to public service.
1.2 National : 2017 NACCHO Members’ Conference and AGM Registrations : Only 28 days to go
On Tuesday 2 October there was only 28 days to go and due to high demand the conference AGM is nearly booked out
This is an opportunity to show case grass roots best practice at the Aboriginal Community Controlled service delivery level.
In doing so honouring the theme of this year’s NACCHO Members’ Conference ‘Our Health Counts: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’.
2. Vic : VAHS ACCHO Healthy Lifestyle Team love supporting the Fitzroy Stars Netball Club
Photos above : Introducing the Fitzroy Stars Junior Netball Carnival Teams!
The VAHS Healthy Lifestyle Team love supporting our Fitzroy Stars Football/Netball Club netballers.
These girls and boys are representing the Healthy Lifestyle Values and doing us proud today! Well done everyone on being deadly team players and making healthy choices! 
Check out their other healthy lifestyle tips below. HERE
#vahsHLT #StaySmokeFree #BePositive #BeDeadly #BeAware #Lovethegame
3.NSW : In the Shoalhaven region Aboriginal Health is everyone’s business
Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) has joined local Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, the Primary Health Network and the University of Wollongong in committing to work together to bring about positive changes to Close the Gap on health inequalities for our Aboriginal communities.
A partnership agreement was formally signed on Friday by leaders of the South Coast Aboriginal Medical Service; Oolong House – Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre; Illawarra Aboriginal Medical Service; Waminda South Coast Women’s Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation; University of Wollongong; COORDINARE – South Eastern NSW Primary Health Network; and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.
A special ceremony, including a corroboree, smoking ceremony and performances by the Doonooch Dancers led by Joe Brown-McLeod and Larry McLeod,
and a stirring welcome to country by Uncle Tom Moore preceded the official signing of the agreement.
ISLHD Chief Executive Margot Mains said the agreement aims to support, promote and strengthen the existing local relationships and strong ties that have been developed over many years.
“The signing of the partnership agreement marks a new beginning for our journey in working collaboratively to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal people and non-Aboriginal Australians,” Ms Mains said.
4.NT : Ken Wyatt opens our NACCHO #OchreDay2017 summit in Darwin
Losing his nephew to the same preventable disease that afflicts so many Aboriginal Australians galvanised Ken Wyatt to make indigenous men’s health a “top priority” of his political agenda.
Read full speech here NACCHO Aboriginal Male Health @KenWyattMP Speech ” Men’s health, our way. Let’s own it!” – is a powerful conference theme
Read NACCHO Aboriginal Male Health #OchreDay2017 Conference Press release
@KenWyattMP and @jpatto12 raising awareness of issues in Aboriginal men’s health
The Federal Indigenous Health Minister says his nephew was a promising musician but died in June, aged just 35, after a battle with diabetes and chronic renal and heart disease.
“One of Jason’s killers was kidney failure, the same devastating condition that claimed the life of beloved musician, Dr G Yunipingu,” Mr Wyatt told a national men’s health conference in Darwin.
“His close family and friends are now working on a media project to fulfil his dying wishes – to get the word out to indigenous men in particular, to take their health seriously, to own it.”
Aboriginal men have the poorest health of any group within the Australian population, which Mr Wyatt says is “nothing short of a national tragedy”.
They suffer kidney health problems at five times the rate of their non-indigenous counterparts, and are dying more than 10 years younger.
5. QLD : Inquiry into service delivery in remote and discrete Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities : Draft report consultation
The draft report is scheduled to be released in early October 2017.
We are seeking your comments and views on the draft report, and will be undertaking further consultation during October and early November.
The Commissioner Bronwyn Fredericks will be briefing and consulting with stakeholders in the following locations:
- 9 October 2017 (1pm to 3pm) – Cairns, Doubletree Hilton Hotel
- 10 October 2017 – Yarrabah
- 11 October 2017 – Kowanyama
- 12 October 2017 – Lockhart River
- 13 October 2017 – Aurukun
- 16 October 2017 – Gladstone (LGAQ conference)
- 17 October 2017 – Woorabinda
- 20 October 2017 – Brisbane
Further consultations will be scheduled in the coming weeks at Mt Isa, Mornington Island, and Thursday Island – details will be published on the QPC website as they become available.
Consultations will include round tables in Cairns, Mt Isa, Thursday Island and Brisbane.
Please register your interest to attend a consultation or round table here.
If you would like to meet with the Commissioner or the inquiry team either as part of the consultation rounds or via teleconference, please contact us on (07) 3015 5111 or enquiry@qpc.qld.gov.au
6.ACT : NACCHO/Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service mental health webinar in conjunction with the Mental Health Professionals Network
On Wednesday the 13th of September 2017, NACCHO facilitated a mental health webinar in conjunction with the Mental Health Professionals Network as part of its professional development work.
This mental health webinar focused on reducing the mental health impacts of indigenous incarceration on people, communities and services.
The discussion was conducted by an Indigenous interdisciplinary panel (see below for further details). A post-discussion Q&A was also conducted between the panel and guests, recordings of which can be accessed below.
THE PANEL
Julie Tongs OAM (CEO Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service)
Dr Louis Peachey (Rural Generalist)
Dr Marshall Watson (Psychiatrist)
Dr Jeff Nelson (Psychologist)
Facilitator: Dr Mary Emeleus (General Practitioner and Psychotherapist).
The project, organised by Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service’s Tackling Indigenous Smoking team, will be carried out with funding from a Healthway Indigenous Health Promotion grant and the Federal Government’s Tackling Indigenous Smoking Program.
Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service regional tobacco coordinator Danika Tager said smoking rates in the East Pilbara were exceptionally high and more needed to be done to support communities to address tobacco addiction.
Filmmakers will work with youth in four remote Aboriginal communities in the East Pilbara to shed light on the personal stories of local smokers and warn about the perils of the deadly habit.
Young people, assisted by a professional production team, will create a series of short films as part of the “you CAN quit” project, to document the stories of community members who have successfully kicked the habit and those who have been affected by smoking-related illnesses in Jigalong, Parnngurr, Punmu and Kunawarritji.
Statistics from the Federal Department of Health show that tobacco smoking is responsible for one in five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths, with the number substantially higher in remote areas.
“Smoking rates in remote East Pilbara communities are as high as 80% and tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in this population,” Ms Tager said.
“Through this important film project we hope to encourage people in these communities to quit smoking, as well as air the many benefits of quitting and where they can find help and support.”
Filming of the four short films will start September 19. It is expected the films will be screened in each community on completion and also be aired on indigenous television stations and social media.
Ms Tager said the project was unique in that the films would be entirely community owned and directed, giving young people the opportunity to actively make a difference in their community.
“Youth will be responsible for all aspects of researching, shooting, editing and promoting the films” she said.
“All too often NGOs will come into a community with a health message that may or may not be relevant, and expect it to change people’s behaviour,” she said.
“What we are doing here is empowering the community to send its own messages and fight tobacco-related harm using its own experience and stories.”
The project will also involve a series of posters to celebrate non-smokers in the communities, and offer education sessions and details about the availability of support programs.
The Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service (PAMS) is a community controlled health organisation that provides primary health care, 24-hour emergency services and preventative health and education programs in the communities of Jigalong, Parnngurr, Punmu and Kunawarritji.
8. Tas : Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre to celebrate our communities journey of breast cancer & raise awareness
Please join us at piyura kitina (Risdon Cove) on Thursday, 12th October at 1.30pm, to celebrate our communities journey of breast cancer & raise awareness of this disease.
Afternoon tea, will be provided, please contact Emma on
6234 0777 or Freecall 1800 132 260 if you require transport.
9.SA : Aboriginal Health Council of SA and South Australian Aboriginal Chronic Disease Consortium
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