Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs - Hobart, TAS (part 2 of 2)
5 August 2026
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Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Australian Parliament
00:00 - 02:26
Speaker 8
Some Department of Health staff around the Aboriginal cultural safety e-learning module. So we had a vignette with some demonstrations of non-Aboriginal staff comments after the training, that anonymous comments. And we really looked at how that influenced the racism against Aboriginal people within the work environment. So they also looked at the next panel discussion was the ACCHOs spoke about real partnership, what it meant to them, how we could build that trust and how it could be more of an Aboriginal governance. So the priorities that emerged from the round table were for the department to continue to strengthen its own cultural safety training, and we are the Aboriginal Health Unit is working on that at the moment.
But also to look at accountability for health services. So we'll be a part, myself and some of the and the ACCHOs will be a part of the monitoring and accountability group for the Schedule B. So we'll be looking at how the cultural safety becomes we become accountable for that. And we'll be continuing to advocate for Aboriginal leadership and shared decision-making within the Department of Health. So some immediate we're about to put out our report on the Aboriginal round table and some of the immediate actions identified were around the health board and senior executives attending on-country cultural awareness training and participating in regular on-country engagement and discussions with the community.
We've also recently arranged a visit to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre health service for all of the health board to see what they do, where they are and to hear about their model of care. We want to organize that statewide so that the other areas have more focus about what it is that Aboriginal health workers do and the importance of the cultural safe care that they provide.
02:26 - 03:06
Speaker 7
And if I just add to the second part of your question about what we've learned from the round table for the Aboriginal health workforce strategy we're developing. A number of factors came out. And the first of those is that, you know, not just putting in jobs and thinking that's the end of it. So for instance, reviewing our Aboriginal health liaison officer and the feedback from the round table was even in our small hospitals we need to put in multiple Aboriginal health liaison officers because the nature of kinship but the nature of support they need requires that. So that was one of the lessons.
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