Health, education and hope for the future go together. Merilyn King, Senior Lecturer in Nursing at Flinders, reported on two educational projects, with particular reference to diabetes-an important health priority for the South Australian Health Commission. The storyboard approach to Indigenous education was described by Barbara Power and Ava Leitner from the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction at Flinders University. Jennifer Duncan and Vonda Last described the University of South Australia's Indigenous Employment Scheme. Underpinning the whole conference was the significance of attitude.
Racism takes many forms.
Discrimination exists in so many different ways. The conference saw this as so significant that one resolution sought tertiary level staff development to ensure that Indigenous cultures and students' backgrounds are understood and appreciated. Barbara Baird of the Department of Social Inquiry at Adelaide University, and member of the university's reconciliation group, facilitated the open workshop. The Indigenous workshop was facilitated by Neeva Collins, Indigenous Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. At the October Council Meeting of AFUW the recommendations from the conference were unanimously endorsed, and will now be disseminated to the state and territory associations and appropriate government and education bodies.