Calls for recognition fall on deaf ears
Image:Image: Shutterstock; Morgane LAVIEC It’s over four years since First Nations Leaders from across Australia met…
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National Disability Insurance Scheme: Time For Reform?
Image:Image: Shutterstock; Nils Versemann The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has heralded significant increases in the…
Disability, Diversity and the NDIS: Independent Assessment Reforms
NDIS “independent assessments” are being trialled across the country; requiring participants to be assessed by an…
ATSI Youth Suicide at a Crisis Point
Content warning: youth suicide, mental health Youth suicide is a horrific and pressing issue, but one…
NDIS Not Working for Indigenous Australians
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience disability at almost twice the rate of other Australians,…
More questions than answers on Indigenous suicide
It's being called a violence crisis, as Aboriginal people are more likely to experience family violence…
Push to remove trachoma in Indigenous communities
Trachoma is the world's leading cause of infectious blindness, but Australia is the only high-income country…
Rheumatic heart disease a burden in northern AUS
You would be forgiven for thinking that rheumatic heart disease (RHD) was just another disease modern…
Cultural competence key to closing the gap
The health disadvantages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is much canvassed, but could cultural…
New degree to increase Indigenous primary healthcare workforce
The overall health of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is a pervasive issue in…
Ngaoara: Breaking cyclical trauma in Indigenous communities
Professor Ngiare Brown chats with Breakfast about not-for-profit organisation Ngaoara and its holistic approach to the issue of cyclical trauma…
Vernon Ah Kee’s “Not an animal or a plant” Sydney Ex...
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as…
