Loddon Mallee Health Network

Reconciliation & Anti-Racism

We acknowledge the ongoing impacts of colonisation still affecting First Nations Peoples, the racism that still exists within the fabric of our healthcare system, individual knowledge gaps connected to understanding our shared history, and deficit mindsets that still exist within our region’s hospitals and communities.

Cultural Safe Practice

Cultural safety training is unpacking unconscious bias, racism, and white fragility, understanding our shared history at a heart level such as the stolen generation, terra nullius, missions and massacres, etc.

Culturally safe practice is the ongoing critical reflection of us as health practitioners’ knowledge, skills, biases, attitudes, practicing behaviors, and power differentials in delivering safe, accessible, and responsive healthcare free of racism. (Source: Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy).

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Safety framework by the State Government asks healthcare workers to consider:

  • Do you know the different types of racism?
  • Do you know what intergenerational trauma is?
  • Have you read the white Australia policy?

The only way cultural safety is determined is by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families, and communities and through the ongoing critical reflection of the health practitioners and of everyone who works in the hospital. (Source: Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy).

 

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