Day 1 Keynote Session: Insights into the next National Plan
| Wednesday, December 1, 2021 |
| 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM |
Overview
8:30am - 8:40am Welcome & Housekeeping
8:40am - 8:50am Welcome to Country
8:50am - 9:20am Keynote 1 - Closing the Gap for the Aboriginal Population, in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence
Ms Donnella Mills, Chair, NACCHO (VIRTUAL)
9:20am - 9:50am Keynote 2 In conversation with: Ms Jess Hill, Author, See What You Made Me Do (VIRTUAL)
Speaker
Donnella Mills
Chair
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation
Day 1 Keynote Session: Insights into the next National Plan
Abstract
Keynote Presentation - Closing the Gap for the Aboriginal Population, in the context of Domestic and Family Violence
Donnella will speak to the important role of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations in addressing domestic and family violence. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples, the experience of domestic and family violence must be understood in the historical context of colonisation and the resulting and continuing impacts, cultural dispossession, breakdown of community systems, racism and social and economic exclusion and entrenched poverty. Beyond addressing immediate healthcare needs, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations play a pivotal role in addressing the social determinants of health, health inequity and exclusion faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that contributes to family and domestic violence. Donnella will also show how the new National Agreement on Closing the Gap can be used to strengthen the role of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and other community controlled organisations in addressing domestic and family violence.
Donnella will speak to the important role of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations in addressing domestic and family violence. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples, the experience of domestic and family violence must be understood in the historical context of colonisation and the resulting and continuing impacts, cultural dispossession, breakdown of community systems, racism and social and economic exclusion and entrenched poverty. Beyond addressing immediate healthcare needs, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations play a pivotal role in addressing the social determinants of health, health inequity and exclusion faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that contributes to family and domestic violence. Donnella will also show how the new National Agreement on Closing the Gap can be used to strengthen the role of Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and other community controlled organisations in addressing domestic and family violence.
Biography
Donnella Mills is a proud Torres Strait Islander woman with ancestral and family links to Masig and Nagir. She is Deputy Chair of Wuchopperen Health Service, Chair of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation – NACCHO and member of James Cook University Council. For the past 7 years, Donnella has been a Cairns-based lawyer with LawRight, a Community Legal Centre which coordinates the provision of pro-bono civil legal services to disadvantaged and vulnerable members of the community.
Donnella most recently was the project lawyer for the Wuchopperen Health Justice Partnership. This innovative HJP is an exciting model of care providing access to justice in a community-controlled setting, where lawyers and health professionals collaborate to achieve improved health, social, emotional and spiritual well-being outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Jess Hill
Author
Day 1 Keynote Session: Insights into the next National Plan
Abstract
Keynote - Creating Cultural Changes: Combining Forensic Research and Stories
Biography
Jess Hill is a Walkley-award winning investigative journalist who’s been reporting on domestic abuse for several years. Prior to this, she was a Middle East correspondent, and worked as both a producer and reporter for various programs across the ABC, including AM, PM, The World Today, and Background Briefing. In 2019, she published her first book, See What You Made Me Do, about the phenomenon of domestic abuse in Australia. It was awarded the 2020 Stella Prize, has been shortlisted for several others, including the Walkley Book Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and has been adapted into a television series for SBS. Currently, Jess is working on an audio documentary series called ‘The Trap’ with the Victorian Women’s Trust, which will be released in August.
