MEMBERS of peak body for public health, the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), have voted to create an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to help guide its work.

The proposal known as the First Nations Collective Co-Design Project was passed at the association’s annual general meeting on Dharawal Country/Wollongong on 16 Sep.

“A huge amount of work by myself and nine other Indigenous people – all volunteers – went into the two-year project to co-design the Indigenous governance model for the PHAA Collective,” Truwulway woman Dr Alana Gall, who is based at Southern Cross University and led the Co-Design Project Team.

“To see it accepted by most of the PHAA membership gives me hope post the failed Voice referendum, and makes all the hard work worth it,” Dr Gall added.

The next step of the Collective project will be determined by the Collective members.

The PHAA said it “remains steadfast in its support of the Uluru Statement from the Heart movement, which was supported by more than six million people, and the movement’s goals of a Makarratta, Treaty”.

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