Aboriginal Hostels provide 3,300 beds for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the country.

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Strategy 2005 2008 was developed to continue to guide Australia's response to HIV AIDS, blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the cross border region of Australia and Papua New Guinea

The Commission manages the Employment and Capability Strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employees, which is aimed at

The indigenous education programmes are based on the 21 goals of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy.

To help address the fact that the incidence of and deaths from cervical cancer among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is significantly and disproportionately high compared to non indigenous women, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Forum has been supported by the Department of Health and Ageing since 2000.

The maternal mortality ratio for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women continues to be higher than that for non indigenous women.

Stabilizing numbers over the next two years, then increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' employment in the mainstream Australian Public Service

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women continue to have their first and subsequent babies at significantly younger ages than non indigenous mothers.

Please provide information on what other strategies, including awareness raising, are in place to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's access to health care services.

Please provide information on what other strategies, including awareness raising, are in place to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women's access to health care services.

Supporting agencies to align strategies that promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment with their broader strategies for achieving business outcomes through workforce planning and capability development

Increased capacity in the health and community workforce to address all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander HIV AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and blood borne viruses.

5 Information on the Employment and Capability Strategy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employees is taken from the Australian Public Service Commission website www.apsc.gov.au indigenousemployment index.html.

The Committee is concerned about the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the main policymaking body in Aboriginal affairs consisting of elected indigenous representatives.

A 15 page booklet containing information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, families and the community is available, in addition to posters featuring the indigenous ambassadors.

In 2001 2002, total expenditure on health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was AUS 1.8 billion, or 2.8 per cent of total national health expenditure.

In July 2004, programmes previously administered by the Indigenous Law and Justice Branch of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services were transferred to the Attorney General's Department.

In its previous concluding comments, the Committee encouraged the Government to collect statistical data on the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the workforce (A 52 38 Rev.1, para.

A national strategy, Partners in a Learning Culture, and an accompanying blueprint for implementation are in place to address the underrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in vocational and educational training.

In its previous concluding comments, the Committee encouraged the Government to collect statistical data on the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the workforce (A 52 38 Rev.1, para.

These population characteristics coupled with more general health risk factors, such as higher smoking rates and incidence of sexually transmitted infections, increase the risks for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women during childbirth.

Through its Community Legal Services Programme, the Government funds seven organizations across Australia to operate the specialist Indigenous Women's Projects, providing culturally appropriate legal aid services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

The Attorney General's Department funds the Law and Justice Advocacy programme, which supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in their pursuit of social, cultural, economic and political rights through the legal system.

In its previous concluding comments,1 the Committee encouraged the Government to collect statistical data on the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in decision making, politics, administration and the judiciary (para.

The Forum gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, in consultation with their own communities, the opportunity to develop and implement proactive, health promoting strategies in relation to cervical screening at the national level.

In its previous concluding comments,1 the Committee encouraged the Government to collect statistical data on the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in decision making, politics and administration and the judiciary (para.

Life expectancy estimates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians born in the period 1996 2001 indicate that life expectancy at birth is around 18 years lower than the average life expectancy for all Australians.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 1.4 times more likely than non indigenous women to visit hospital for pregnancy and childbirth related issues, experiencing higher rates of perinatal mortality and adverse maternal outcomes, including death.

Between 1997 and 1999, the six deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women gave an indigenous mortality ratio of 23.5 deaths per 100,000 confinements compared with 6.7 for non indigenous women, which is three times lower.

Implementation of the strategy commenced on 1 July 2005, focusing on three key action areas sexually transmitted diseases in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities sexually transmitted diseases in homosexually active men and chlamydia control and prevention.

Assisting agencies to address key barriers to the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees, by identifying pathways to employment that allow indigenous peoples to develop the required skills and capacity to work in the public service

The goals can be grouped under four main headings involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in educational decision making equality of their access to education services equity of educational participation and equitable and appropriate educational outcomes.

In addition, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a significantly lower life expectancy and experience lower levels of access to health services than the general population, and are nearly twice as likely to live outside urban centres.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has tabled a number of reports that analyse the background, statistics and experiences of indigenous women exposed to the justice system.

In its previous concluding comments, the Committee was concerned that the situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait women, as well as those of migrant women, had been further compromised by an apparent rise in racism and xenophobia in Australia (para.

In its previous concluding comments, the Committee was concerned that the situation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, as well as those of migrant women, had been further compromised by an apparent rise in racism and xenophobia in Australia (para.

Mr. Mondriguez Torres withdrew.

Data from the 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey indicate that Government support remains important to indigenous women, with approximately 22 per cent of indigenous women's employment at the time being covered by the Australian Government's Community Development Employment Project.

Increasing the extent to which Government agencies are able to use the existing and potential skills and capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees in order to meet their business needs for skilled employees, including in areas of specific skill shortage and recruitment difficulty

Over 80 Healthy for Life sites will be established over four years, with 20 to 25 sites commencing in 2005 2006, to undertake targeted activities, early intervention and quality improvements in health service delivery to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Torres booted the ball to his teammate.

In 2005, the Australian Government announced a new initiative called Healthy for Life , to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers, babies and children, enhance the quality of life for people with a chronic condition and, over time, reduce the incidence of adult chronic disease.

Government per capita expenditures were much higher for indigenous than non indigenous peoples (AUS 3,614 per indigenous person, compared with AUS 2,225, or 62.4 per cent more), the reason being that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples rely heavily on publicly funded health care providers, particularly public hospitals and community health centres.

Torres Cazorla, Professor of International Law at the University of Málaga.