Question

Suggest awareness campaign to reduce obesity in aboriginal children of Queensland state of Australia and how can we achieve this please provide references as well. Thank you

Answer 1

Ans) At the National Reconciliation Workshop in Canberra in May 2005, the Prime Minister stated:

- Simply, along with I'm sure all of you, want an Australia where an Aboriginal child - whether born in a remote community or in one of our cities or in regional centres - can grow up and reach their full potential in life. I want that child to be loved and nurtured and morally guided, to be healthy, educated, optimistic, ambitious and to feel a full part of the Australian community. Economic opportunity and prosperity and social stability and cohesion; these goals I sometimes talk about are as relevant to our first citizens and to that Aboriginal child . as to the rest of our society

- The journey towards reconciliation will only be complete when Indigenous Australians enjoy the same opportunities as other Australians. And that frankly is going to take a very long time. And we do ourselves harm if we impose unrealistic time limits on what can be achieved.

- I am a realist and the work of reconciliation will be the work of generations. And it does require a long term commitment. But as well as being a realist I'm an optimist I believe in the human spirit and I believe in the potential of individuals and of families and of communities not only in Indigenous Australia but all around our great country. I'm an optimist because I believe very much in the courage shown by many Indigenous leaders; individuals with the courage to challenge conventional thinking, to promote economic opportunity, wealth creation and self-reliance; to assert the view that individual responsibility on the part of Indigenous Australians is as much a part of the reconciliation process as is the discharge of government responsibilities in the name of the rest of the Australian community.

And finally I'm an optimist because I believe in the essential decency, fairness and egalitarianism of the Australian people. It is not always on perfect display and there are some that do that notion shame. But fundamentally it is at the core of the way in which Australians live their lives. And the reason why the notion of reconciliation, however inadequately and differently expressed, has survived and how a gathering as representative of people who care about the future of the Indigenous people of Australia as this gathering - the reason why it has come together is I believe a reflection of that innate decency, fairness and egalitarianism.