Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

62. The observer for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission reiterated the statement of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner on behalf of indigenous delegations from Australia.

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

The Government had promised greater autonomy for the people of the Torres Strait and, as a first step, had passed legislation giving the Torres Strait Regional Authority a separate budget allocation from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.

The focus of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is on indigenous people.

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.

Moreover, 20 million had been set aside for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health action plan, which will improve training of indigenous health and mental health workers and provide accessible and appropriate specialist mental health and clinical care services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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

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.

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.

146. The observer for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission expressed his strong support for articles 5, 9 and 32 as currently drafted.

203. The observer for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission indicated that there was a clear link between article 19 and article 4.

Indigenous health was a matter of grave concern, and the Government was committed to improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

The author, however, was not present at that hearing as he was at a meeting of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in Canberra.

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.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Grand Council of the Crees, Indian Law Resource Centre, International Indian Treaty Council, Inuit Circumpolar Conference, International Organization of Indigenous Resource Development, National Aboriginal and Islander Legal Service Secretariat, Saami Council.

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.

16. The Grand Council of the Crees would also endorse the recommendation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission to establish the forum as a functional commission of ECOSOC.

The Committee is also of the view that there is a need for measures to address the causes of the high rate of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

The Committee is also of the view that there is a need for measures to address the causes of the high rate of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

The Working Group was also told about the special ministerial summit on aboriginal deaths in custody and the high Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration rates, which was held in July 1997.

11. The following pledges were outstanding as at 1 July 1998 Sweden (US ) 63,291 on 26 May 1998 and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (AUS ) 20,000 on 2 June 1998.

82. Despite these steps to recognize and protect the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to their land and sacred sites, however, it had been argued that many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are unable to benefit from these improvements because in the past they have been dispossessed of their land which has been alienated, their ties to it have been broken and their traditional land lore has been lost.

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.

342. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner reiterated his earlier statement that the unqualified recognition of the right to self determination was absolutely fundamental to the integrity of the declaration.

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.