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Frank
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Car accidents kill Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2.7 times more than other Australians
In a 2021 submission to the Joint Select Committee on Road Safety, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) found that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are 2.7 times more likely to die, and 1.4 times more likely to suffer serious injury because of a vehicle crash compared to other Australians.
Their key recommendations?
NACCHO recommends to the Joint Select Committee on Road Safety that the Australian
Government:
• Take immediate action to improve road safety outcomes and reduce fatalities and injuries
for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in alignment with the National Agreement on
Closing the Gap and the four Priority Reforms. These responses must be holistic and
consider the social determinants of health.
• Fund Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) and other
community controlled organisations to develop and deliver targeted road safety campaigns
to their local communities.
• Subsidise public transport options and community-based air travel for regional and remote
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to reduce the need for people to drive
when it is unsafe to do so and without a driver’s licence.
• Develop and implement road safety programs, including those that target prevention and
early intervention, vehicle maintenance, improved access to driver licencing, child safety
restraints, culturally appropriate testing and driver educations and training. In line with
Priority Reform 1 of the National Agreement, this must be done in genuine partnership with
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisations and local
communities and made widely accessible.
• Provide increased funding for ACCHOs in relation to post-accident and trauma care,
including training, medicines, and equipment.
• Ensure that any road enforcement policies do not disproportionately impact Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander communities, especially those living in remote areas, with fines and
other legal proceedings. This should include funding for community controlled Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander legal services.
Laughable nonsense. Give us more money so we'll watch where we are going.
F orf.
There is no subsidy, funding, money in being normal so Abos milk the self-inflicted gap for all its worth while they can. And once it's in the constitution, it' IS forever. 'Disadvantage' cemented and institutionalised.
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