The federal government has announced a plan to train 500 health workers across Australia, as the joint council on Closing the Gap meets in Adelaide.
The Closing the Gap joint council will address a range of issues to improve Aboriginal livesSpeaking from the front steps of South Australia's Parliament House ahead of the meeting, Assistant Indigenous Health Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said the government would spend $52.9 million over five years to employ the Aboriginal trainees.The trainees will get Certificate III or IV qualifications to allow them to work in health settings and deliver culturally appropriate care.
Federal and state Indigenous affairs ministers and Aboriginal leaders meet in Adelaide for a Closing the Gap meeting. "But it's wrong to suggest that agenda will be usurping the agenda of Closing the Gap — they are part and parcel of the same thing. She said the council would hopefully endorse a new community infrastructure target, as well as an inland waters target that would give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders exclusive commercial development opportunities.South Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher said the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians "was not closing quickly enough".
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