Year 10 students studying Health in Our Community have been exploring the complex issue of Closing the Gap. Through our Indigenous Health unit, we have come to understand that First Nations people experience poorer health outcomes than non-Indigenous Australians.
As part of this study, we examined the Closing the Gap initiative, which our class defined as ‘a national agreement between the Government and First Nations organisations that focuses on minimising life outcome inequalities between First Nations people and non-Indigenous people.’
To deepen our learning, students expressed their reflections in creative forms. One moving example was a poem written by a Year 10 student, Grace R (10C4) which captured both the pain of ongoing inequalities and the hope for a more just and healthy future for all Australians. Their words reminded us that the Closing the Gap commitment is not only about statistics and policies, but about people, voices, and lived experience.
By Grace R (10C4)