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Published April 2020
The purpose of this paper is to articulate the perspective of the NAGATSIAC on how the aged care system redesign, currently underway by the Commonwealth Government, can incorporate mechanisms and policies that would:
This paper will consider underrepresentation and contributing factors for the following three
areas of the aged care system, as well as some likely roadblocks in system redesign:
The NAGATSIAC submission to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety
(September 2019) can be considered as supplementary reading to this strategy paper, as it offers
extensive explanations of Indigenous Australians’ problematic experiences of the current aged
care system.