AMA Indigenous Health Report Card 2018 – Rebuilding the Closing the Gap Health Strategy

The Closing the Gap Strategy is unravelling, and must be rebuilt from the ground up to have any chance of closing the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, AMA President, Dr Tony Bartone, said today.

Dr Bartone today launched the AMA Indigenous Health Report Card 2018, the AMA’s annual analysis of an area of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health across the nation.

Transcript:   AMA President, Dr Tony Bartone, ABC News, Breakfast with Virginia Trioli, Thursday, 22 November 2018

Subject:  AMA’s Indigenous Report Card and Closing the Gap on Indigenous Health

Transcript:   AMA President, Dr Tony Bartone, 6PR, Drive with Oliver Peterson,
Wednesday, 26 September 2018.

Subject:   New Prime Minister, Aged care, Indigenous health, Euthanasia, E-cigarettes.

OLIVER PETERSON:   Joining me live in the studio is the new National President of the AMA - his first visit to Perth as the National President of the Australian Medical Association.

Doctor Tony Bartone, welcome to Perth.

The AMA Federal Council has endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for a First Nations’ voice in the Australian Constitution.

AMA President, Dr Tony Bartone, said today that the AMA has for many years supported Indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution, and that the Uluru Statement is another significant step in making that recognition a reality.

“The Uluru Statement expresses the aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in regard to self-determination and status in their own country,” Dr Bartone said.

Transcript:   AMA President, Dr Michael Gannon, ABC Radio Alice Springs, Breakfast with Stewart Brash, Wednesday 18 April 2018

Subject:  Health Outcomes for Indigenous Australians

Speech to the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery

2018 Indigenous Ear Health Workshop

Thursday 8 March

Perth

I would like to start by acknowledging the Whadjuk Nyoongar people, the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet today, and pay my respects to their elders past, present, and future; as well as the elders joining us today.

SPEECH
LAUNCH OF 2017 AMA REPORT CARD ON INDIGENOUS HEALTH
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA
WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2017
AMA PRESIDENT DR MICHAEL GANNON

I acknowledge the Ngunnawal peoples as the traditional custodians of the land upon which we meet today. We pay our respects to all Elders past and present, as well as Aboriginal Elders and guests joining us.

The AMA's Indigenous Health Report Card 2017, issues a challenge to all Australian governments to work with health experts and Indigenous communities to put an end to the scourge of poor ear health – led by chronic otitis media – affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Eleanor Crighton persuaded Family Planning to let her complete a course normally only available to doctors and nurse practitioners. Now she has been named the winner of the AMA Women's Health Award 2017.