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DIRTY LITTLE SECRET – BY IAN THORPE
Speech given by Ian Thorpe at the inaugural Beyond Sport Summit in London, July 2009.
“Like many people in Australia I was completely unaware of the huge gap in health and education outcomes let alone the differences of life expectancy”….
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TRUST OR TREACHERY – BY JEFF MCMULLEN
“From the pages of a newspaper the face looked out me. An old man sat on the edge of his bed, feet dangling on the dirt floor of his shack in a Tennant Creek camp in Australia’s Northern Territory.”
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CLOSING THE SPACE BETWEEN US - Easing the Crisis in Indigenous Health and Education - BY JEFF MCMULLEN
“I am torn as I stand here tonight between sharing what I know is happening to Aboriginal communities and wanting to be there as the sun rises tomorrow.”
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CLOSING THE SPACE BETWEEN US - THE RIGHTS OF ABORIGINAL CHILDREN – BY JEFF MCMULLEN
“We cannot understand the scale of the crisis threatening Aboriginal children today unless we have a clear understanding of what has happened to these children in the longer timelines of history.”
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THE CHILDREN OF THE SUNRISE – BY JEFF MCMULLEN
…….“Minister, it is not fundamentally about policy it is about how you value Aboriginal people as human beings.” ….. especially at this time, as we hear it said, once again, that we are “saving their children”.
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THE POWER OF THE MIND – THE LINK BETWEEN INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND EDUCATION
“………….the place to start is with young mothers and their children. Nobel Laureates have told us that and pointed out the cost benefits. But in most Aboriginal communities there is little maternal health education, too few infant support programmes and Australia has a disastrous under-investment in pre-school education, especially for the neediest, most disadvantaged children…
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WHEN LITERACY CAN MEAN LIFE – BY JEFF MCMULLEN
“….the truth we must face is that many of these children are way behind even before they begin kindergarten…..Indigenous children are born dangerously low birth weight…this is one of the underlying reasons for their disastrous state of education, which is intrinsically connected to the health emergency in the heartland of this country.” Jeff McMullen
Download full article in PDF formatINSPIRING A GENERATION – BY DEAN BUTTERS, OF GOLDEN KEY INTERNATIONAL HONOUR SOCIETY
“I think about how amazing they are (the Jawoyn children), that they can still have a smile on their face, that they can still see a lot of hope, when a lot of us would have lost it, that’s why there is this need to do something now, because I don’t know if we can be so certain that the next generation of these children will actually be the same”. Ian ThorpeDownload full article in PDF format
“SYNDROME X”: THE SILENT PLAGUE THREATENING THE WORLD’S OLDEST CULTURE”
“….we can no longer ignore the gravest health emergency we face today. A cluster of chronic illnesses known as Syndrome X afflicting so many of the 460,000 Indigenous Australians has long been a front page story begging to be written.” Jeff McMullenDownload full article in PDF format
BENEFITS OF SWIMMING POOLS IN TWO REMOTE ABORIGINAL IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA: INTERVENTION STUDY
Study by BMJ journal Vol 327 23 August 2003
“….high prevalence of pyoderma (skin disease) is also the most likely reason for some Aboriginal communities having the highest reported incidence of acute rheumatic fever worldwide… ….pools have resulted in significant health and social gains….”
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7412/415
