How the latest medicines get into the remotest communities 2024 Innovative Medicines Special Report The Community Service Obligation ensures equal access to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines to all Australians.
Premium Columnists Failing to Close the Gap is now parliamentary tradition, no matter who’s in power February 15, 2024 By Bernard Keane Culture On Indigenous suicide, we’re Widening the Gap, new data shows. But it seems we’re losing interest in our failures on Indigenous policy.
Closing the Gap funds for Queensland March 21, 2022 By Tom Ravlic News The Institute for Urban Indigenous Health in QLD has received $1.4 million from the state government to establish a local early childhood wellbeing program.
Federal claim of mental health agreement ‘first’ raises eyebrows November 8, 2021 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Experts say the federal government’s so-called ‘first’ national mental health plan is, in fact, the sixth such national mental health strategy.
How do we make sure we’re not baking inequities into our policies, including the NDIS? September 13, 2021 By Gemma Carey Editors' Picks Centre for Social Impact wonders why is it that white people, and rich people, do not struggle to navigate the NDIS the way Indigenous and CALD people do.
COVID-19 public health restrictions trigger feelings of trauma for Stolen Generations survivors April 22, 2021 By Melissa Coade Culture Findings from an online survey conducted by the Marumali Program on behalf of the Healing Foundation have demonstrated the ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were impacted by COVID-19 public health orders around Australia.
How climate change may drive one-third of doctors out of the NT April 12, 2021 By Simon Quilty and Catherine Pendrey Editors' Picks A new study shows that for 34% of surveyed NT doctors, climate change is already or is likely to make them consider leaving the NT.
The Indigenous eye-care gap is closing, but not fast enough November 26, 2020 By Emma Stanford, Karl Hampton, Hugh Taylor and Mitchell D Anjou Culture To reach our goals for improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island eye health, we need more health partnerships, improved housing and environmental health in affected communities.
Most funding from key Indigenous Advancement Strategy programs allocated on a non-competitive basis, audit finds September 29, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Education The latest audit found NIAA’s administration of the two IAS programs has been ‘largely effective’ but highlighted a range of issues that need to be addressed.
Making space: how designing hospitals for Indigenous people might benefit everyone December 6, 2019 By Timothy ORourke Culture Sunshine Coast University Hospital uses evidence-based design to provide outside spaces with views that Indigenous people tell us they value. Architectus, Author provided Welcome to the next article in our Designing Hospitals series, where we explore how architecture and design shape our hospitals and medical centres. Today, we look at what Indigenous people tell […]
How to improve health outcomes for Indigenous peoples by making space for self-determination July 12, 2019 By Dominic O'Sullivan Culture The Treaty of Waitangi obliges the state to ensure that public policy is as effective for Māori as it is for everybody else. But the Waitangi Tribunal’s comprehensive report on the primary health care system found that despite clear intentions, the state fails to deliver good outcomes for Māori.
Aboriginal Australians want care after brain injury. But it must consider their cultural needs May 23, 2019 By Beth Armstrong and Juli Coffin Community & Social Brain injury occurs up to three times more often in Aboriginal Australians than their non-Aboriginal counterparts. Despite their greater need, Aboriginal people access rehabilitation services at a lower rate than the general population.
Backing the strengths of Aboriginal young people March 13, 2019 By Sandra Eades Culture For Aboriginal people, connection to our country, culture and family can be profoundly healing. But in the many decades we’ve spent working to improve the health of Australia’s first peoples – it’s a strength that has too often been ignored and squandered.
Four lessons from 11 years of Closing the Gap reports February 20, 2019 By Nicholas Biddle Community & Social Some targets seem easier to meet than others, while some are just plain unreliable. Here are four things we’ve learnt from the last decade of Closing the Gap policy.
Tone-deaf to people's real needs, the silos strike back September 13, 2018 By Damien Howard Case studies Why is an innovative indigenous health program on the cusp of full implementation now likely to be mothballed, asks Dr Damien Howard?