Indigenous health: Embracing and enacting the spirit of change

This is the Opening Keynote Address given by Professor Bronwyn Fredericks to the 60th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. In her address Prof Fredericks speaks to the fact that it is 60 years since motivated and impassioned people travelled to form the organisation that became the Cardiac Society. She reflects on 60 years ago, and the present time and what has changed in Australia, the world and in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Prof Fredericks calls on members of the Cardiac Society to be change agents so that we see the changes we need to see in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in the next 60 years.