Health is just one of the areas where Indigenous people face a disadvantage the PM describes as "unforgiveable". These doctors have a vision for change — but they also face unique challenges.
Category Archives: Indigenous Policy
Traditional owners critical of Premier’s approval of Aboriginal lands manager
South Australia's Premier has signed off on the controversial reappointment of APY general manager Richard King, but elected traditional owners are split over the decision.
Liberal candidate for Gilmore Warren Mundine
The battle for the marginal seat of Gilmore on the New South Wales south coast is shaping up as one of the uglier, more interesting contests in the federal election.
Focusing on strengths, not ‘the gap’, will help improve Indigenous health
Only looking at the size of "the gap" doesn't tell us anything about how things are going for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Instead, it may hide the progress that is happening and decrease people's willingness to adopt healthy practices.
Focusing on strengths, not ‘the gap’, will help improve Indigenous health
Only looking at the size of "the gap" doesn't tell us anything about how things are going for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Instead, it may hide the progress that is happening and decrease people's willingness to adopt healthy practices.
Indigenous Australians ‘have the right to grow old’, Shorten says in funding pledge
Labor unveils a $115 million plan for Indigenous health, pledging nearly a quarter of that spending to help address the alarming rate of youth suicide.
‘They were back to being black’: The land withheld from returning Indigenous soldiers
Indigenous soldiers returning home from the horrors of World War I were plunged headlong into another long-running battle.
Why doesn’t the world’s oldest living culture attract more tourists?
Thousands of years before the first stone was cut for the Pyramids of Giza or Olympians competed on the tracks of ancient Greece, Jamie Brooks' ancestors were painting rocks near the Katherine River. Yet only 15 per cent of domestic tourists experienced his culture during trips to the Territory.
NT land councils breathe sigh of relief as housing squabble settled
A bitter and prolonged remote housing spat between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Northern Territory Government is resolved, with land councils branding the news as "a relief".
The face of the $2 coin may gain further recognition
An Aboriginal elder and massacre survivor immortalised on the Australian $2 coin could be further recognised if a bid to rename a vast Northern Territory electorate is successful.