Indigenous Road Safety Working Group
Functions
The Indigenous Road Safety Working Group aims to help improve road safety for Indigenous people. Additionally, the Working Group aims to address the recommended actions from each bi-annual Indigenous Road Safety Forum.
The purpose of the Indigenous Road Safety Working Group is to provide expert strategic advice to the National Road Safety Executive Group and the National Road Safety Council about measures to reduce the involvement of Indigenous people in road trauma.
The Working Group:
- develops input on Indigenous road safety for the National Road Safety Strategy;
- identifies priorities for national research in the areas of Indigenous road safety;
- monitors the nature and extent of the involvement of Indigenous people in road trauma;
- promotes the involvement of Indigenous people and agencies at all levels of road safety management with regard to improving Indigenous road safety;
- investigates initiatives for Indigenous road safety;
- shares best practice and information about road safety research and measures undertaken in jurisdictions;
- convenes the national Indigenous road safety forums;
- reports on progress on recommended actions from the forums, as well as provide advice to the National Road Safety Executive Group and the National Road Safety Council; and
- reports annually on each jurisdiction's initiatives to improve Indigenous road safety outcomes.
The Working Group reports to the National Road Safety Executive Group (NRSEG).
Membership
The Road Safety Working Group includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous representatives from relevant Australian, State and Territory Government agencies and other groups. The Working Group meets via teleconference.
Further information
More information is available on the Indigenous road safety section of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government website.
Related publications
2011
Department of Infrastructure and Transport (2011)
Indigenous road safety forum report.
Coffs Harbour, NSW: Department of Infrastructure and Transport
King C (2011)
Welcome message - 5th Indigenous Road Safety Forum in Coffs Harbour [speech].
Retrieved 11 November 2010 from http://www.minister.infrastructure.gov.au/ck/speeches/2010/KS01_2010.aspx
2010
Department of Infrastructure and Transport (2010)
Indigenous Road Safety: 5th Indigenous road safety forum.
Retrieved 2010 from http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/indigenous_road_safety/index.aspx
2008
Department of Infrastructure Transport Regional Development and Local Government (2008)
4th Indigenous Road Safety Forum.
Paper presented at the 4th Indigenous Road Safety Forum. 29-31 October 2008, Cairns, QLD
2007
Australian Transport Safety Bureau (2007)
Indigenous Road Safety Forum 2006.
: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
On 23 - 25 October 2006 the Indigenous road safety forum was held in Broome, WA. On the day before the actual conference, on 23 October, forum participants visited the Aboriginal Community of Beagle Bay. The Forum included presentations, as well as workshops. The Indigenous Road Safety Working Group meeting took place on the last day of the conference. All Forum participants were invited to participate in the discussions of the Working Group meeting.
Workshop themes discussed were: evaluation of initiatives; sources if funding for countermeasures/initiatives; risky practices: drink driving and unsafe pedestrian behaviour; non-seatbelt wearing and riding in open load spaces; unlicensed driving and community engagement; and improved statistics.
The CD-rom contains:
- invitation and program of the Forum;
- presentations from 23 October 2006:
- Mary O'Reeri: Questionnaire on road safety, Beagle Bay community
- Dwayne Gordon: Artwork
- Jon Gibson and Emma Hawkes: Aboriginal road safety
- audio recordings from the forum sessions;
- presentations in pdf format or audio;
- documents relating to the conference:
- ARRB Group scoping study: Australian Indigenous Road Safety - 2005 update;
- Australian Transport Safety Bureau report: Road Safety Among Indigenous Australians: A Statistical Profile;
- photographs from the forum; and
- forum recommendations
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
2004
Indigenous Road Safety Forum and Working Group 2004 (2004)
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
On 27 and 28 September 2004 the Indigenous road safety forum was held in Alice Springs. After the forum a small number of road safety practitioners met to consider the views of forum participants and make recommendations for future action.
The forum included presentations on the following:
- Indigenous road safety: where from and where to?
- Indigenous road safety in WA
- Indigenous road safety in the NT
- Road safety programs for Indigenous people in NSW
- The National Injury Prevention Plan
- The national Aboriginal road safety video and resource pack
- Aboriginal pedestrian project
- Licensing program in NT gaols
- Indigenous driver training in WA
- Indigenous road safety in SA
- Summary of forum outcomes
The CD-rom contains:
- audio recordings from the forum sessions;
- presentations in pdf format, audio, or video;
- documents; and
- photographs from the forum.
The documents section of the CD-rom contains the forum brochure, a draft discussion paper for the forum, the list of recommended actions and the ARRB report Australian Indigenous Road Safety commissioned by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract
Australian Transport Safety Bureau (2004)
Summary of outcomes from 2004 Indigenous Road Safety Forum.
Retrieved from http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/indigenous_road_safety/summary_indig_forum.aspx
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