Nationwide parliamentary elections were held in Australia on Saturday. The leading Labor and Liberal parties still ignore the exact results, but if re-elected, the Australian Labor party has promised to invest another $5 million in aged care translation services and cultural awareness staff training.
The much-needed funding initiative will aim to break down communication barriers facing older Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The $5 million will include $2.2 million to engage interpreter services to help older people from non-English speaking backgrounds to communicate effectivley when dealing with health and aged care matters.
The government said that this initiative will support around 14,000 hours worth of on-site visits and telephone interpretation services each year.
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Aug 25, 2010
Australian Labor party includes telephone interpreting as part of their final campaign strategy
Source: Australian Ageing Agenda
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Many similar news are about enforcing interpretation intensively in medical services of many countries. I expect that in a near future, our interpretation professionals should have a specialty: interpretation experts for non-native people in need of medical care.
Soonthon Lupkitaro
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