Shaun Daniel Allen from Nerve Damage has put together a 10 song Australian Hardcore compilation to benefit Oxfam Australia and raise awareness for their "Close The Gap" campaign.
Details below...
Ten bands. Ten tracks. Ten years of Oxfam Australia's CLOSE THE GAP campain
Today is national Close The Gap day Kate Bensen and I have come together to get a tape ready to raise crucial funds for the fight for Indigenous health equality.
Huge thanks to Nerve Damage, BROKEN, death church, SHACKLΣS, Primitive Blast and Manhunt. for their previously unreleased tracks; and Blind Girls, Born Free, MILES AWAY and Sex Drive for their tracks and being involved, this obviously wouldn't be possibly without you all. We're so keen to get this tape into our hands!
Preorders are up now at closethegaptape.bigcartel.com and will stay open until Monday night. We are hoping to raise as much money as possible, so tapes are $15, but we are hoping you can spare a little more. You can hit closethegaptape.bandcamp.com for the digital version.
All profits to go to Oxfam's National Close the Gap day!Ten years into the campaign to Close the Gap, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health is improving, but not nearly fast enough.
Indigenous Australians can expect to live 10-17 years less that non-Indigenous Australians. Babies born to Aboriginal mothers die at twice the rate of other Australian babies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience higher rates of preventable illness such as heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes.
The mortality rates for Indigenous Australians is on par with some of the world’s most impoverished nations. The United Nations report, The state of the world’s indigenous peoples (2009), indicated that Australia and Nepal have the world’s worst life expectancy gaps between indigenous and non-indigenous people.
Is this the Australia you want? We all deserve the chance to be healthy.