Brisbane | 29 - 31 July 2019
The Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health conference is a platform uniting indigenous communities, policy makers and healthcare providers to drive health equality and establish an environment in which Australia’s indigenous population can thrive.
10 years have passed and over $100 billion has been spent since the federal government released its initial Closing the Gap report in 2006, committed to specific targets for reducing inequalities across Australia’s indigenous populations. To date only two of the original seven targets to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander livelihood have been met and neither of these reflect key health indicators.
Today the reality is that the gap in life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous populations has increased and reverse progress has been made towards improving health and life expectation equality for Australia's indigenous peoples.