Close the gap | James Fitzpatrick | TEDxPerth
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. James Fitzpatrick is a consultant paediatrician, researcher and entrepreneur. He established Patches Paediatrics to harness the creativity of private enterprise and the precision of science to address seemingly intractable health problems in Aboriginal communities. James was awarded Young Australian of the Year in 2001 for his work in Aboriginal health, rural health workforce improvement and youth suicide prevention. As a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, and a former Infantry soldier, James combines a scientific approach with a reputation for getting things done.
James is the founder and Director of Patches Paediatrics, a child health service that is revolutionalising child health services in remote communities. He is also the founder of True Blue Dreaming, an Outback Youth Mentoring Program working with communities in the WA Wheatbelt and Kimberley regions.
He advises the Federal Minister for Indigenous health on strategies to ‘Close the Gap’ in Indigenous health disparity and was influential in shaping the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013 - 2023.
James Fitzpatrick is a consultant paediatrician, researcher and entrepreneur. He established Patches Paediatrics to harness the creativity of private enterprise and the precision of science to address seemingly intractable health problems in Aboriginal communities. James was awarded Young Australian of the Year in 2001 for his work in Aboriginal health, rural health workforce improvement and youth suicide prevention. As a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, and a former Infantry soldier, James combines a scientific approach with a reputation for getting things done.
James is the founder and Director of Patches Paediatrics, a child health service that is revolutionalising child health services in remote communities. He is also the founder of True Blue Dreaming, an Outback Youth Mentoring Program working with communities in the WA Wheatbelt and Kimberley regions.
He advises the Federal Minister for Indigenous health on strategies to ‘Close the Gap’ in Indigenous health disparity and was influential in shaping the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013 - 2023.
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I am astonished this hasn't been watched more times. This is a very important topic and one that all of Australia should get behind. Alcohol is tearing our families, our communities, and individual lives apart, and it won't get better until the Government convinces the alcohol industry to release its iron grip. Alcohol is profitable, yes, but lives matter more than money.
I love James, he is my nephew. He is a very good man.
No one forces anyone to drink.
So we should impose "special" more restrictive rules on Aboriginals? Okay but then we will have to give Aboriginals LESS rights than other races. They obviously can't be responsible for their own lives.
Well said. It is devastated.this is deep.
@@suhcars8395 everyone must help to do something to save lives those in need help to Thier children advocacy group to speak up more information about and education.
Thank you for sharing this James Fitzpatrick. You're doing what I want to do. Help the communities. Bravo. We can't undo the past, but we can help to make other people's lives better. Some of my good friends are indigenous, I know their stories of hurt and struggle. These people all want to move on, on to a better future for themselves and their children.
that would have to be the most meaningful talk I have had the pleasure to listen to. thank you for sharing deep and profound love.
Brilliant, thank you, Dr Fitzpatrick. Your contribution is fantastic !!
What a beautiful person/heart. Thank you
What a great inspiring story James Fitzpatrick. You are making such a difference. God bless you!!
That's my nephew.
I love how you are so proud of your nephew.
epic
At school im doing a project on james
This is a problem all over the world. So sad and sick. I have 2 adopted kids with FASD. It breaks my heart every day. Their lives are ruined,
excellent talk, great work to you and your team
Ted ,this is fantastic lesson to everyone. That is why we can share this amazing inspection presentation great job to pass on. Incredible experience those indigenous peoples how much they have been suffering from this.
Brilliant James xx
Thanks for amazing inspection lesson mate. This is great.
fantastic work. It doesnt matter where anyone is in health etc, we can change the future, that is by giving hope
I'm sure the Aboriginal community will applaud any special restrictive laws based on race imposed on them.
Thank you :)
My grandmother was a bar maid and it no doubt helped her rise her three daughters. Same goes with poker machines, clubs are labour intensive and support families.
congratulation .. This is amazing and it should be shared. Alcohol is money making but at what cost .. our children deserve to come to a save and protected environment so they grow and thrive.. FASD is causing harm, damage to vulnerable new lives...
The coroner no doubt shared a drink with fellow judges as they cried.
This is great, but what is the "gap" that they're referring to in the title?
The gap between Aboriginal life expectancy, health and wellbeing, and white Australia's life expectancy, health, and wellbeing
Life is full of choices at every turn. Make good life choices. Are we talking about enacting "special" racial laws just for Aboriginals? To restrict the rights of one race of Australians? So Aboriginals cannot be trusted to make their own choices? Watch the Aboriginal community point out your racism and lack of trust in them. Whether you do or you don't do, you're damned.
Sale of wine is a big money earner and pays wages, taxes and helps our balance of trade. All these interventions cost money, paid by taxes such as GST on wine and PAYE on labour.
Money motivation crime to offer indigenous alcohol that is why now the affect of brutality community endanger.
7:35
9:42 Enstein: 55 on deinining the problem, 5 min- on finding solutoin
11:10 We often infest much in defining the problem but then don't stay the long course of the solution
Great role model.bbe strong.
Closing the gap is achieved by inspiring people to achieve, not by lowering the bar so that standards in society suffer. Merit, never race must be the criteria for entry to courses, qualifications and jobs so that the very brightest, the most individually intelligent, the hardest working, the most determined can make the dreams come through. Never use race to squash the very real dreams of those who strive.
Muddle 2. - to mix(a drink) or to stir(an ingredient) into a drink.nb ( with regard to hemispheres and effect there of) (also planetary magnetic resonance imaging) ??
Close the Gap for Aboriginals between the age of 55 to 67 to enable an Old Age Pension.
I sense great intention of James and all involved and yet something crucial also feels 'not right'. Is it because the cause is not addressed? Because of the attitude that seems to be that 'we have to address the many, many Problems of Aborignal Peoples' in a well meaning White assimilationist ways and all will get better? In my view the real problem is 230 years of continual and ongoing cultural genocide.
Aboriginals have had every right and benefit every other race in Australia has enjoyed since 1962. In fact, today, the have MORE rights and benefits than you and I have. The white Australia policy affected every minority race. Yet today they work really hard to make their lives count for something. Surely, Aboriginals can do no less. Learn to treat ALL races equally please.
@@ray6115 yes that would be fantastic : to treat all races equal. to treat everybody equal. But d you mean by that: treating all races / everybody the same? I think this might not be fair. Imagine you had a small family say of four children one boy had two bad accidents, has been in hospital for a long time and cannot walk that well and has been treated by other children in his class very unkindly because of that. Do you think you would give that child - specially while in hospital - some extra specific support? Aboriginal Peo[ples had more than two accidents. Imagine if virtually your WHOLE way of life has been taken away from you specially your language how would you feel? Can you IMAGINE what would happen if they did this with your culture? No other 'race' in Australia has been anywhere near been treated in the same cruel way in the last few hundred years. I would dare compare it to what Australian soldiers have been through. And as you may know modern science now has proven that trauma is carried in the DNA into the next generation . I am sure your intentions are sincere as you want everybody treated equal, but I think we need to want equanimity for everybody.
@@sonjademoor9398 There comes a time when we must all let go of the past. No one race should ever have more than other races here. Aboriginals have had equal rights and benefits with all other races here since 1962 and MORE. How many generations do you expect other races to keep putting food on their own tables to feed their own families and then also feed an Aboriginal? One, two, ten generations or forever? Heal and move on. Many other races are also in the minority and have also experienced the white Australia policy. They are out there contributing to the social fabric of Australia and doing their best. Aboriginals can do no less. Merit, not race must be the criteria for all choice and need, not race must be the criteria for all assistance. Let us treat ALL races in Australia equally and may the best, most determined, most hard working, most dedicated and most individually intelligent person win. Don't let us create an apartheid /stratified society where one race has more in perpetuity than other races. We all have value. We are all important.
@@ray6115 Yes we all have value. But REALITY is that we are not equally valued. Most white people still FEEL superior to everybody else. That is how I and most of us white people have been raised. And I believe it is only over when the healing of trauma is properly done. And for that victims/survivors AND 'perpetrators' need to heal. Truth telling is just the beginning. And that has hardly been done. Epigenetics - modern western science- is only just started to understand more about collective and transgenerational trauma.
@@sonjademoor9398 I am a minority so you don't have to tell me about racism. I face racism every day but all other minorities are out there facing the world and doing the best we can despite not receiving the many extra benefits Aboriginals enjoy and we don't harp about it. There is nothing to stop any Aboriginal from doing the same. No one race deserves MORE rights and benefits than other races. If your marks are not good enough to get into university or into the course you want, claim Aboriginal heritage and get in through the back door. If you want a job and your qualifications are not good enough or you in fact lack any qualifications whatsoever claim Aboriginal heritage and you get the job without having to compete with other races eg Woolworths/ Westpac Indigenous Employment Programs/ Indigenous Rangers etc. If all else fails, claim Aboriginal heritage and have a job created just for you eg Aboriginal Liaison Officer etc. Wish I had that. All assistance by the government using tax payer funds should be on the basis of need, never race. Any entry to courses or jobs should always be on the basis of merit, never on the basis of race. ALL Australians deserve equal treatment. I and other Australians fully deserve equal treatment to all Aboriginal, irrespective of our race.
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Apparently the late Queen Mother was a drunk and lived 101 years.
Do you think her children have foetal alcohol syndrome ??
But she was huge chance recover and she is a privilege wealthy to compare with those is ridiculous.
Let them drink, what else have they got?
Very mean . You have a compassion and empathy.
Respect to those victims.