Closing the Gap: Australia's Indigenous strategy

Australia will broaden measures to improve life outcomes for its Indigenous people, after efforts over the past decade did little to budge their shorter life expectancy, worse health prospects and higher rate of incarceration.


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[barryford]

Many Aboriginals have a very poor diet high in fat which they are not used to in their natural diet. eg Diabetes is endemic in Aboriginal populations but can be controlled with the return to a leaner diet they had before colonialisation
Different races are genetically fixed for a longer or shorter life
The lifespan of the Aborigines today 72 years is a big improvement over 40 years before colonisation
Australians have a longer life than people in the USA should us Australians help our American friends ?

[karenvecsei]

Old Age Pensions for Aboriginal people age 55 to 67.

WA recognises Old Age at 55 years

Age Pension is 67 years

The Elderly fought the journey for Land Rights.

Skip forward to 2023 it the three generations down who want to negotiate to sell the land and make negitiations without approval from the Elders.

[astrazenica]

Enough isolated evolution to equal Sub species?

[leerethus]

Cose they do they won't it all the gap is getting bigger in favour of the black