Vision

Goondir Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Corporation for Health Services

Aims to:

Introduce fundamental changes on a preventative health care basis to effect lasting improvements in Aboriginal health.
Alleviate the acute, existing health problems in the short term while effecting preventative health care & without adopting a panaceaic approach that might make the application of preventative health care, or difficult in the long term.
Ensure a more effective approach to improving Aboriginal Health on a preventative health care basis both for the long term & the short term.
Promote that health is not just the physical well-being of the individual but the social, emotional and cultural well-being of the whole community. This is a whole-of-life view & it also includes cyclical concept of life and death.
Ensure that the Primary Health Care provided is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound, socially and culturally acceptable methods & technology made universally accessible to individuals, their families in the community in which they live, through their full participation at every stage of development in the spirit of self reliance and responsibility.
Provide a service which is acceptable to the community it serves.




	The Aboriginal Flag The red represents the land, the red ochre of Australia, to which the Aboriginal people have a spiritual bond. Black represents the Aboriginal people, the people of the land, their diverse cultures having a common spiritual link to the land. The yellow sun a common symbol of light and spirit. The giver of life.




	Torres Strait Islander flag The flag is emblazoned with a white Dari (head dress) which is a symbol of Torres Strait Islanders. The white five pointed star beneath it symbolises the five major island groups and the navigational importance of stars to these seafaring people. The green stripes represent the land, the black stripes represent the people, and the blue the sea. The flag as a whole symbolises the unity of all Torres Strait Islanders.


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