. Karl Briscoe Our Close the Gap Campaign 2025 Annual Report, highlights Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership in closing the gap This year’s themes of agency, leadership, and reform underscore the pivotal role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and

Wominjeka: Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcomes today’s #CTG2025 launch to Country, talks about his pride in standing up for his people, in the footsteps of his Elders and ancestors, who have nurtured this land over 60,000 years.

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Ged Kearney Anthony Albanese ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚 Hearing now from Paul Stewart, CEO Lowitja Institute which has again produced this year's #CloseTheGap report for ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚. The institute's primary focus is to put Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the driver’s seat, particularly when it comes to research.

Ged Kearney Anthony Albanese ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚 Lowitja Institute The case studies highlighted in the #CloseTheGap2025 report are proud, resilient, self-governed and innovative, says Lowitja Institute CEO Paul Stewart. They're unlikely to make the 6pm news, so it's the role of ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚 members to amplify these stories.

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Ged Kearney Anthony Albanese ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚 Lowitja Institute Hearing now from Steph Harvey, proud board member of The Healing Foundation, seeking to amplify the stories, lives and urgent of the Stolen Generations, including in the #CloseTheGap20025 report.

Ged Kearney Anthony Albanese ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚 Lowitja Institute "There is a 'gap within a gap' for Stolen Generations survivors," says The Healing Foundation's Steph Harvey, tracing a direct line from the harms of being forcibly removed from family, culture, Country to ongoing health inequity. #CloseTheGap2025

Ged Kearney Anthony Albanese ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚 Lowitja Institute Steph Harvey puts a powerful challenge to governments, services, agencies and others with the power to act to support Stolen Generations survivors and descendants: "Are you waiting for us to die".

Ged Kearney Anthony Albanese ClosetheGap 🖤 💛 ❤️ Campaign 💙 💚 Lowitja Institute Hearing now from Lose Fonua from the newly formed First Nations Eye Health Alliance, advocating for the very first national First Nations Eye Health Strategy #CloseTheGap2025

#closethegap2025 Ngaweeyan Maar-oo #ClosingtheGap Victoria 🖤 💛 ❤️

Last Thursday the Lowitja Institute team attended the launch of the Close the Gap Campaign Report 2025, hosted at the Aborigines Advancement League. You can read the new report here: hubs.li/Q03dqGT70

Lowitja Institute is privileged to be attending the twenty-fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, at UN Headquarters, New York. Pictured (L-to-R) our Deputy CEO Michael Newman, Board Chair Craig Ritchie, and CEO Paul Stewart.

Congratulations to VACCA on receiving a 2024 Major Research Grant. Its project is helping transform Victoria's child welfare system from a state-led system to an Aboriginal Community of Care model centred on culture, self-determination, human rights, and the rights of children.

Our CEO Paul Stewart raised an intervention on Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty Globally during the twenty-fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, at UN Headquarters, New York. Read the full intervention: lowitja.org.au/wp-content/upl…

This week is our 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference. You can follow all the action on our other social media channels: Instagram: @lowitja_institute Facebook: @ The Lowitja Institute LinkedIn: Lowitja Institute

Thank you for coming to #Lowitja2025 – what an incredible week of sharing Indigenous knowledges as we gathered Strong, Fearless, Together with 1377 delegates from 11 countries; 230+ presentations; 80 posters; 16 sponsors; 29 exhibitors; 17 market stalls and 7 Award winners.

Consider the gift of a donation to the Lowitja O’Donoghue Foundation before 30 June. All donations of $2 and over are tax-deductible, and support our work in honour of the legacy of the late Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG. Find out more: hubs.li/Q03tKgJ00

Thank you Croakey Health Media for your awesome coverage of #Lowitja2025 - check out Assoc. Prof. @SummerMayFinlay's video interviews with Professor Rauna Kuokkanen, Scott Avery, Professor Ian Anderson, Xavier and Genus Passi and much more. Croakey News hubs.li/Q03t-1gZ0