Close the Gap in pictures

More than 140,000 Australians have joined the Close the Gap campaign

Schools around Australia participate in National Close the Gap Day

Olympic champions Catherine Freeman and Ian Thorpe launched the Close the Gap

campaign in April 2007.

Musicians including Missy Higgins, John Butler, Kev Carmody and Blue King Brown have

thrown their support behind Close the Gap.

There is a link between poor health and racism

Research has shown that racism is literally making Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander people sick.

The Indigenous population is much younger overall than the

non-Indigenous population.

Rumbalara Aboriginal Corporation in Shepparton, Victoria is one of Australia’s

more than 130 Aboriginal community controlled health services.

Education is one of the key social determinants of good health

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people still die on average between 10 and 17

years before other Australians.

In 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, senior Ministers and the Federal Opposition signed a

Statement of Intent with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health leaders committing them to closing the

Indigenous life expectancy gap by the year 2030

Australia’s first Indigenous surgeon, Kelvin Kong is one of more than 150 Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander medical doctors now practicing. Expanding this health workforce is essential.

Photo Credits

•Federation Square – Robert McKechnie/Oxfam Aus

•Missy Higgins Signs Pledge – Robert McKechnie/OxfamAus

•School kids at NCTGD Sydney – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus

•Olympic champions launch campaign – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus

•Racism makes me sick – ANTaR Australia

•Girls on jetty – Wayne Quillian/OxfamAus

•Checking blood pressure – John Sones/OxfamAus

•Mornington girl – Lara McKinley/OxfamAus

•Lower life expectancy – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus

•Rudd and Roxon sign the pledge – Micheal Myers/OxfamAus

•Kelving Kong – image supplied by Kelvin Kong.