Community-led Holistic Health with Marjorie Thorpe and Professor Ted Wilkes

In this episode Lidia yarns with Nyungar man, Associate Professor Ted Wilkes and long time First Nations health activist (and her mum), Gunnaikurnai woman Marjorie Thorpe about the importance of holistic and First Nations led health services as well as healing spaces. 

Professor Ted Wilkes is a Nyungar man and has spent most of his life working in public health for better First Nations health outcomes. Professor Wilkes has engaged at many forums and committees at the state, national, and international level, and is involved in many research initiatives dealing with alcohol and drugs in Indigenous Australia.

Marjorie Thorpe is a Gunnaikurnai woman and daughter of one of the founders of Victorian Aboriginal Health Service in 1973. Marjorie was a co-commissioner on the Bringing them Home stolen generations inquiry. More recently, Marjorie has campaigned to save the Grandmother trees on Tjapurong. 

TAKE ACTION: Add your name to support the campaign for Truth and Treaty
LEARN: Read Professor Chelsea Watego's Book "Another Day in The Colony"
DONATE: To Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS)

The Greens' plan for First Nations Health: 

• $371m to self-determined, community-led First Nations health services to increase their capacity to care for their own communities
• Ensure people have early access to preventative programs and provide funding of $1.07b to build First Nations owned healing places
• Expand Gold Card access to First Nations Elders aged 60 and above so they can access the healthcare, treatment and services they deserve
• Grow the First Nations health and wellbeing workforce to provide culturally appropriate care to their communities 

These recordings took place on the unceded sovereign lands of  the Wurundjeri  people of the Kulin Nation.

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