00:00Here today on Garyarra Country in the Pilbara, Indigenous leaders from around the region
00:06are meeting to discuss issues affecting them and their communities and the solutions needed
00:12to address them.
00:13Those are coming in the areas of health, housing, education, community safety and well-being.
00:19The focus of today's event is the Call to Action Statement, which was formulated at
00:23last year's meeting and has been refined over the past 12 months.
00:27It sets goals in both the long and short term, seeking to address those issues on the ground
00:31here in the Pilbara, overlapping with many of the Closing the Gap targets.
00:37This meeting place here at Yule River, 1600 kilometres north of Perth, is a significant
00:41one.
00:42It has ties to the 1946 Pilbara strike and the land rights movement that started in the
00:471970s.
00:48Political representatives have today been asked to join the meeting, hearing from community
00:53members about what those issues are and what role the government should play in addressing
00:58them.
00:59Green Senator for WA, Dorinda Cox, has been joined by two members of the WA Parliament,
01:04who have responded to questions from the community about direct issues that are affecting them,
01:10including gaps in accessing health care and issues in communities.
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