But we also have to have a look at how we survive within a community. A lot of our community controlled health services are working but we don't have the funding to provide sufficient service to our community. We have to provide what we can with the funding that we get.

And that also puts a burden on the community because as I said earlier, the diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers are coming in, women's issues, women's problems, so we really can't afford to live in the environment that is available to us.

I think what we really need to do is go back and examine the quality of life of Aboriginal people. If we're going to fix the health and wellbeing, or address it more adequately, we need to have a look at the environmental factors, the poverty factors, the disease factors and the family structures. We need to get those all into order so that our younger people coming on could move and live more healthier than what a lot of our older people are living now.

In saying that about the quality of life, the NACCHO definition, we look at the holistic approach to life, we look at a holistic approach to health which includes the social, emotional, cultural, spiritual, environmental aspects of life. We looked at, not only at the life that's living but we looked at the life after life.

Aboriginal people are spiritually connected not only to the land but to the being, and that empowers Aboriginal people to survive. But then we gotta look at material application that applies to our life as well and that's where we're falling down.