Regardless of how much time or money you have to share with ANTaR, there will be ways that you can help us continue the fight for justice for Indigenous Australians.

Before you do anything else, subscribe to our email bulletin (see the khaki box on the right) so you can get updates on ways you can help and the effect you're having.

Urgent actions

Please take action on these urgent issues right now. You will help us put pressure on people who have the power to effect positive change for Indigenous Australians.

• Become a Close The Gap buddy — if you're confident about meeting a politician face to face, let us team you up with a buddy to visit politicians in December and January.
• Racism makes me sick — resolve to tackle racism: start by signing the pledge.
• "Sorry" was the first step, reparations is the second — send an email to your politicians asking for compensation for the stolen generations.

Ongoing actions

How your actions are having an impact

Indigenous health equality - fulfilling government's funding commitments

In March 2008, PM Kevin Rudd signed the Health Equality Statement, committing to closing the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

What is needed now is for the government to turn this commitment into desperately needed new funding.

A sum of $150 million of new funding for Aboriginal primary health care in 2009-2010 budget would be an important start in addressing the funding and the health equality gap.

The Federal Budget will not be released till May 2009, but the timing for this campaign is crucial - decisions are underway in Canberra right now!

Help ANTaR continue its campaigning efforts by donating today or sending a letter to key policians

Seven steps campaign

Prior to the federal election last November, ANTaR promised that we would seek meetings with both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, to urge them to adopt a cross-party approach to the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Thank you for helping us to do this by making a donation and signing the Seven Steps for Justice pledge.

So ... how is the government going?

Close The Gap campaign

Since the Close the Gap campaign was launched in April 2007, over 100,000 people have signed the pledge calling for government action to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.

A month after the historic parliamentary apology to the Stolen Generations, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and then-Opposition Leader Dr Brendan Nelson signed a statement of intent with Indigenous health leaders committing both sides of politics to the major long-term task of closing the gap.

Now, these good intentions need to be followed by action.

The Close The Gap steering committee, lead by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma, and including ANTaR, have presented the government with a detailed plan of the targets needed to close the gap.

In order to work, this plan must be funded. You can help close the gap by taking part in our campaign to ensure a decent allocation of funds to Aboriginal health in the 2009-10 budget.

For the first phase of the campaign, we're looking for volunteers based in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne who feel confident about visiting a politician face to face. We'll buddy you up with a like-minded activist, so you don't need to be an expert in Indigenous issues. Get in touch with us ... we promise it will give you a buzz!