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How will the Voice reduce infant mortality/

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While living in Alice Springs in the 1960s, while building a live in school for aboriginal children, who at the time were being taken from neglecting parents. We had to bury a young mother and baby who died during childbirth. The young mother died of toxemia, she never attended prenatal support and the birth happened under a birthing tree with other women present, in the riverbed until it was too complex, and she was taken to hospital too late to save her and the baby.

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/infant-mortality/topicinfo/reduce-risk
Preventing Birth Defects
Addressing Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, and Their Outcomes
Getting Pre-Pregnancy and Prenatal Care
Creating a Safe Infant Sleep Environment
Using Newborn Screening to Detect Hidden Conditions

Is the Voice going to enforce attendance to Clinics on young aboriginal women? Are the husbands going to stop beating and abusing their spouse?
Posted by Josephus, Friday, 6 October 2023 8:45:59 AM
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Just vote NO.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 6 October 2023 12:36:12 PM
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The question being asked here is:

How will the Voice reduce infant mortality?

The principle is that it will be Indigenous people
who would be providing advice that could ultimately
see better policy and therefore improvements in
health and child welfare.

There's been plenty of advice around Parliament House
in Canberra. It's just that it's been advice from
career bureaucrats, ministerial and policy advisers
and chiefs of staff, many of whom are well intentioned,
but most of whom have no idea about Aboriginal people
or the solutions that will work on the ground.

The technocrats chop and change and move on. This is the
cycle that contributes to poor policy design and outcomes.

A NO vote will produce "Business-as Usual."
Which will continue to produce policy failures that will
waste money and cost lives.

Indigenous people will continue to be viewed as a problem to
overcome rather than a people offering solutions based on
their intimate knowledge of their people and societies.

That's why a YES vote is so important. Better outcomes for
people in the bush mean better outcomes for us all.
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 6 October 2023 1:15:19 PM
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A YES vote will do diddly squat for the aboriginals, only for the select few who will suddenly become very rich
Posted by shadowminister, Friday, 6 October 2023 3:21:31 PM
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Shadow Minister,

You need to explain that remark.

Which few are you referring to and how will
they suddenly become rich? It's the government
who will control the implementation of the Voice,
and its design, composition, functions, powers, and
procedures. The Parliament will include Peter
Dutton, Jacinta Price and all the opposition members.
Are you saying they're corrupt and will steal from our
Indigenous people?
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 6 October 2023 3:39:01 PM
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Shadow Minister,

If you really believe that the Voice will do "diddly
squat" for our First Nations people that means that
you feel that if the referendum is approved and the
YES vote wins - that you think that whatever advice
is offered by the Indigenous advisory body will be
knocked back by parliament? And "Business-as-usual,"
will prevail?

You should have more faith and trust in at least your
side of politics surely. They're not continual
nay sayers - are they?
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 6 October 2023 3:46:10 PM
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