Features & Stories
- Claims Indigenous community doctors drastically underpaid
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The Aboriginal Health Council in Western Australia says doctors in Indigenous communities are drastically underpaid. Some doctors working for Aboriginal medical services across Australia are being paid up to $100,000 less than other doctors in rural areas; and the Council says the discrepancy makes it harder to attract doctors to work with Indigenous people. - Drinking problem worse under federal intervention: Katherine Mayor
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The Mayor of the Northern Territory town of Katherine says problem drinking has worsened under the intervention because people from dry remote communities are coming into town to drink. Anne Shepherd is now calling for alcohol to be allowed in the communities again to help solve the problem. - NT coroner finds language barrier contributed to death
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The NT coroner has recommended more cultural awareness training and Aboriginal interpreters in the health care system after an elderly man's death two years ago. The 78-year-old man had been flown home to a remote Aboriginal community after hospital treatment and died after being left alone at the airstrip. The man's family claims institutionalised racism contributed to his death. - Plea to send bones back
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Traditional owners from a remote Arnhem Land community in the Northern Territory want one of the biggest museums in the world to return their ancestors' remains. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington recently handed back some bones, but it kept a collection of skulls taken during an expedition 60 years ago. - Report addresses Indigenous prison rate issue
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Health and Indigenous research groups are calling for more research into the health of Australian prisoners. They want an audit of health services and options for Indigenous prisoners, whose numbers have grown in recent decades. - Aboriginal leader calls for Govt to pull 'unviable' community funding
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An Aboriginal leader in Western Australia's Kimberley region says Government should stop supporting Indigenous communities that aren't viable. The WA Coroner has called for Oombulgurri to be closed down if the remote community can't protect children from abuse fuelled by alcohol.
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Fact Files
ABC HealthPetrol Sniffing fact file
Petrol sniffing is a major source of illness, death and social dysfunction in Indigenous communities - fuelled by poverty, boredom unemployment and the ready availability of petrol.
ABC HealthTrachoma fact file
Trachoma is an eye disease caused by a bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis. It is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and is almost entirely a disease of undeveloped countries, with one exception - Australia.