Indigenous Road Safety Forum

• Date:

  29 - 31 October 2008

• Location:

  Cairns, Queensland

• Category:

  Indigenous

Overview

The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government organised the 2008 Indigenous Road Safety Forum in conjunction with Queensland Transport. The Forum consisted of a visit to the Yarrabah Aboriginal Community on Wednesday 29 October, and two days of presentations, workshop discussions and a plenary session on 30 and 31 October.

The Forum aimed to:

• promote the sharing of resources and information to maintain an ongoing national commitment to addressing road safety issues that affect Indigenous peoples, and
• make recommendations to produce practical and locally relavant initiatives

HealthInfoNet Cafe

The Indigenous Road Safety Forum is a bi-annual event, where people working to improve road safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia can share information. The Fourth Indigenous Road Safety Forum was organised by the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, in conjuction with Queensland Transport. The Forum consisted of a visit to the Yarrabah Aboriginal Community, and two days of presentations, workshop discussions and a plenary discussion session. Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet staff member Ineke Krom presented about the HealthInfoNet web resource and yarning place, and ran a HealthInfoNet cafe at the conference.

Contacts

Annette Bartlett
Ph: (02) 6274 7131
Email: Annette.Bartlett@infrastructure.gov.au

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