1.Health Justice Partnerships webinar today 18 November features our NACCHO Chair Donnella Mills
Monday 18 November – 2:30pm – 4:00pm AEDT
A quiet revolution is taking place across Australia and it’s transforming the way some of the most vulnerable in our community access legal services. In a practitioner-led movement, community lawyers have been moving out of their offices and into the most unlikely of places – hospitals and community health settings – to collaborate with health services and their patients to address unmet, health-harming legal need.
Known as health justice partnerships (HJPs), these collaborations work by embedding legal help into healthcare services and teams.
Health Justice Partnerships will explore the growing body of evidence that shows there are groups of people who are vulnerable to intersecting legal and health problems, but who are unlikely to turn to legal services for solutions.
Facilitated by Jason Rostant, a panel examines what takes a HJP partnership beyond ‘status quo’ services in terms of purpose, structure, activity and resourcing.
Panellists include:
- Donnella Mills, Lawyer, Lawright and Chair, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (NACCHO
- Tessa Boyd Caine, CEO, Health Justice Australia
- Jane Cipants, Director Client Service, Legal Aid
- Sandra Gates, Director Allied Health and Clinical Support, The Royal Women’s Hospital
*Panelists subject to change
Get to know
- Legal problems that affect health
- The definition of a health justice partnership
- Evidence supporting the HJP model
- Create partnerships with existing local social resource providers and expand capacity to address social needs
- The development and sustainability of the community service sector
Register here to watch the Webinar
2.Our CEO Pat Turner interviewed by Larissa Behrendt on Speaking Out 16 Nov
Pat Turners 2019 Year in Review Features include
1.Closing the gap / Have Your Say consultations
2. Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt has urged the senior advisory group co-designing an Indigenous Voice to Government to take hold of the “moment in time” before them to change the lives of Indigenous Australians.
3. Yuendumu police shooting: Indigenous groups demand action
4.New $90 Million funding for our ACCHO’s
3. Leading filmmaker Rachel Perkins echoes the Uluru Statement from the Heart in the first of her ABC Boyer Lectures:
I am reminded of the distinguished poet and stateswoman, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, when she wrote:
“Let no-one say the past is dead.
“The past is all about us and within.”
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images of people who have died.
Watch the full speech see link below
Watch Rachel Perkins deliver the first 2019 Boyer Lecture on ABC iview
For Indigenous people have not lost from our minds the history of our nation, not only its deep past of thousands of years, but also the events on April 29, 250 years ago, when James Cook ordered his men to fire upon the two men on the shore.
It is likely they were Gweagal warriors, who stood before him in defence of their family behind them on the beach. Cook’s action signalled the Crown’s intentions; the transfer of a continent, from one people to another, by force if necessary, a phenomenon we politely call colonisation.
Our generation wasn’t standing on the deck of the Endeavour or on the shores of Kamay Botany Bay in 1770, just as we weren’t present during the massacres as the colonial frontier progressed from south to north.
However, as my father Charles Perkins, the Indigenous leader who came to prominence in the 1960s for leading the Freedom Ride, said:
“We cannot live in the past, but the past lives in us.”
The past has made us. We are its inheritors, for better or worse, and this is now our time.
How we move forward from this moment will set the course of relationships between Indigenous people and their fellow Australians into the future.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-16/boyer-lecture-rachel-perkins-echoes-uluru-statement/11696504