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  • Get behind Close the Gap Day – March 22

    Australians are being urged to get behind National Close the Gap Day on Thursday 22 March. All around the country local organisations and communities are working to close the gap in life expectancy and tackling the health crisis that sees Aboriginal people experience higher rates of preventable illness – including avoidable blindness.

  • Lifestyle and eye disease

    How we live our lives each day matters to our health. It also matters to the health of our eyes. Poor lifestyle choices or situations forced on people through poverty and their need to survive can be risk factors for eye diseases, either in general or specific ways. What are some important lifestyle issues for eye disease? Sunlight Sunlight exposure is known to cause skin cancers and the eyelids can be affected in the same way as the rest of the body.

  • Cooperation not intervention: call for a new direction

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has joined other NGOs in support of a statement regarding a cooperative approach to Indigenous health. A statement and list of supporting agencies are below: Aboriginal peak bodies, community welfare and public health groups from around the country are calling for a new direction in policies affecting Aboriginal Australians based on cooperation, not ‘intervention’.

  • Welcome news for Indigenous health equality

    The Fred Hollows Foundation welcomes an announcement by the Federal Government that a new health plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians will be developed with Indigenous people and organisations. The Foundation’s Indigenous Programs Manager, Joy McLaughlin, believes the plan will be an important step towards closing the gap in life expectancy and infant mortality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

  • Foundation celebrates NT Landcare Award

    A horticulture project supported by The Foundation has received major recognition, winning the Local Government Landcare Partnership Award at the 2011 NT Landcare Awards. The Landcare Awards recognise Territorians who have demonstrated excellence in caring for land and water resources.

  • ‘Fred Hollows: A Global Vision’ photo exhibition in Sydney

    Sydneysiders can see how the vision of late Australian eye surgeon, Professor Fred Hollows, has restored sight to millions of people when a new photography exhibition opens at NSW Parliament House in November. Fred Hollows: A Global Vision features the work of internationally recognised photographers such as Michael Amendolia whose series on Fred working in Vietnam during his last few months has come to symbolise the extraordinary life of one of our greatest Australians.    

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